Henry Moses Dufur Reminiscences

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Henry Moses Dufur nyob hauv lub ntiaj teb Heavyweight Collar-and-Elbow Wrestling Champion thaum lub 1870s. Los ntawm 1855, Dufur txijnkawm los ntawm kev wrestling mus caum nws full-time profession ntawm khaub ncaws tailor. Txawm tias thaum nws wrestling hauj lwm, Dufur ua haujlwm li ib tailor. Dufur hais rau tus correspondent ntawm lub ntiaj teb Boston uas nws yug hauv Richford, Vermont rau lub rau hli ntuj 5, 1943. hnub no

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Dan Daly Beats Ed Kelly

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Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in

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Tom Allen Fights Bill Davis

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Nyob rau hauv lub xyoo pua 19th, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful

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Yog Lewis los yog Gotch nws yuav zoo dua?

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Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 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 Santel 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, Txiag txog Wrestling hnub qub

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Paul Pons yog lub Greco-Roman Wrestling tau zus ib ntawm Fabkis nyob hauv lub 1890s. Nws yeej muaj kev sib tw rau lub Folies-Bergeres ua ntej winning ib cov kev sib tw nyob Xos Viav hauv 1898. No yeej loj heev pub rau nws siv lub ntiaj teb Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship. Pons capitalized ntawm no notoriety qhib ib gym rau tsheb nqaj hlau wrestlers thiab cov txiv neej muaj zog. Pons’ yeej yog tshwj xeeb zoo kawg li vim qhov

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Me nyuam tub zoo nkauj Floyd. Louis nyiag

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Nyob rau hauv 1934, Charles Arthur “Zoo nkauj tub” Floyd twb nws cov hauj lwm txim txhaum hauj lwm nyob rau hauv ib sab hnub tuaj Liverpool, Ohio pob kws teb tom qab ib tug tua nrog FBI kab mob thiab hauv zos tub ceev xwm khiav. Txawm li cas los, hlis ntuj nqeg 1925, Nws yog inmate tooj 29078 Ntawm lub Missouri Penitentiary. Tus 21 xyoo Floyd twb nyuam qhuav tau raug robbing lub Kroeger Grocery thiab Baking tuam txhab loj

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Suspects tab sis tsis muaj Murderers

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Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 16, 1920, Tshwj xeeb cov neeg khiav dej num rau Preston Anslyn thiab William A. Moller tau tom qab muaj ob burglars hauv lub 3800 thaiv kev rov Avenue thaum ib tug hnyav pos huab. Ib yam lossis ob burglars tua tus neeg khiav dej num hauv lub gangway thaum lawv taug kev mus rau kev cov nyom ntawm ib lub tsev, qhov uas lawv xav tias nkag mus rau lub burglars. Cov neeg khiav dej num leej raug tuag ntawm tej qhov txhab, uas tua tau

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Detective Desmond muab kaw khw Pawn

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Khiav ib pawn khw yeej ib txwm tau ib lub lag luam tawv vim hais tias koj lossi yuav tsum tau nyob rau ntawm tus saib rau tub sab sim pawn lawv raug nyiag lawm nyob rau hauv koj lub khw. Nyob rau lub caij 19th xyoo pua, Tub ceev xwm detectives ua hauj lwm nrog pawn khw, hnub no, sim kom txhob muaj cov khoom uas zoo. Lub yim hli ntuj 1885, yav tom ntej St. Louis

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Tau Willis Hall 99 Xyoo rau tua neeg

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Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 15, 1903, hais txog 2:00 o'clock thaum sawv ntxov, George Harding, Lub clerk ntawm lub tsev so Erie, Tibneeg hu tauj coob heev ua hauj lwm hauv nws chaw ua hauj lwm. siv ib leeg kheej, Harding muaj so nws vigil thiab tsis pom peb loj, Nyuaj saib txiv neej nkag mus rau lub tsev so ntawm plaub thiab Clark txoj kev. Nws xim raug ntes, Thaum thawj tus txiv neej nkag mus rau hauv nws qhov chaw ua hauj lwm

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