Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 urte, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at

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Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

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Martxoan 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in

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Caddock eta W. Zbyszko Wrestle to Draw

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Earl Caddock-ek borroka profesionalaren karrera nahiko labur baina istorio bat izan zuen 1910eko hamarkadaren amaieran eta 1920ko hamarkadaren hasieran.. Profesionaletan debuta egiten du 1915 Borroka amateurrean AAU National hiru titulu irabazi ondoren, Caddock-ek profesionalki borrokatzen zuen arte 1922. Hala ere, munduko txapeldun izendatuko zuten apirilean Joe Stecher garaitu ostean 1917. Caddockek titulua galduko zuen

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Chief Desmond Solves Cooper Killing

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On Thursday, Urtarrila 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, one of St. Louis’ wealthiest men, owned residential real estate and other assets valued at 2 milioi dolar. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Zuen

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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

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Uztailetik 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Nahiz eta Georges Carpentier

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Borroka txapelduna Saiakera Boxing

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Asteartean, Urtarrila 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete

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John Berg Wins Light Heavy Championship

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John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Baserritarrak” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 libera. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in

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Palooka (1934)

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Urtarrilaren On 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, hartzen du

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