Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 ans, 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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Sur Mars 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 et W.. Zbyszko lutte pour dessiner

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Earl Caddock a eu une carrière de lutte professionnelle relativement courte mais riche à la fin des années 1910 et au début des années 1920.. Il fait ses débuts professionnels en 1915 après avoir remporté trois titres nationaux AAU en lutte amateur, Caddock n'a lutté professionnellement que jusqu'à 1922. Cependant, il serait reconnu champion du monde après avoir battu Joe Stecher en avril 1917. Caddock perdrait le titre

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Chief Desmond Solves Cooper Killing

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Le jeudi, Janvier 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, un de St. Louis’ hommes les plus riches, propriété immobilière résidentielle et autres actifs évalués à 2 millions de dollars. Cooper aspirait à être le plus grand propriétaire immobilier à St. Louis. Il

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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

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Sur Juillet 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.” Même si Georges Carpentier

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Champion Wrestling essaie de boxe

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Mardi, Janvier 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 “Agriculteur” 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 livres. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg a lutté

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Palooka (1934)

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Sur Janvier 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, le prend

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