Was Lewis or Gotch Better?

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Trong tháng 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.

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Paul Pons, Nhà sản xuất Wrestling Sao

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Paul Pons là Wrestling vô địch Hy Lạp-La Mã của Pháp trong những năm 1890. Ông đã giành một giải đấu ở Folies-Bergeres trước khi chiến thắng một giải đấu tại Nga trong 1898. These victories allowed him to claim the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship. Pons có mức vốn trên tai tiếng này bằng cách mở một phòng tập thể dục để đào tạo đô vật và những người đàn ông mạnh mẽ. Pons’ victory was particularly remarkable because of

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Pretty Boy Floyd St. Louis cướp

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Trong 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Tuy nhiên, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office

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Appointment with Danger (1950)

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I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (liên kết liên kết) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United

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Lewis Solves Masked Marvel

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When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. After

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Sherlock Holmes’ Trường hợp lớn nhất (1932)

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In the second surviving Sherlock Holmes film (liên kết liên kết) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, hai tên tội phạm đã trốn thoát tù. Họ đang tìm cách trả thù những người đàn ông, người đôi vượt qua một trong những tên tội phạm, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls nói với hai trong số các lính canh nhà tù của mình, nơi một gia tài lớn đã được ẩn. The wardens find the treasure, have a

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George Baptiste Wins Detroit Tournament

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During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,

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