Man Kills Middleweight King

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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 ár, 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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The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

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William Powell’s fifth turn as S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance may have been his best. The Kennel Murder Case (1933) finds Philo Vance trying to solve the murder of Archer Coe. Coe hafði marga óvini, en mesta ráðgáta fyrir Vance er hvernig Coe var myrtur í læst herbergi,,en,Vance sótti hundur sýning,,en,George Wiggins sótti rannsókn hans fyrir morðið á St,,en,Louis Police Officer Louis Schnarr í júní,,en,Nonchalantly tyggigúmmí,,en,ára Wiggins virtist algerlega ómeðvituð alvarleika rannsókninni,,en,Wiggins flytja sekur um morðið á von á að fá,,en,Dómari WITHROW var miðað dauða,,en,Lewis sigraði Joe Stetcher fyrir hans Heimur Heavyweight Glíma Championship,,en,Professional glíma var sett á svið sýningu um,,en,svo var sterk tilfinningar milli manna að passa kann að hafa verið,,en,eða lögmæt passa þar sem Lewis tók beltið,,en,Hvort niðurstöðu leiksins,,en,The Most Famous lögmæt glíma Matches í sagnfræði,,en. Vance mætti ​​á hundasýningu með Coe og hans

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Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

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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 and W. Zbyszko Wrestle to Draw

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Earl Caddock had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock only wrestled professionally until 1922. Þó, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back

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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

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Júlí 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.” Jafnvel þó Georges Carpentier

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Glímukappi reynir Hnefaleikar

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Á þriðjudag, Janúar 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, A Seattle læknir og atvinnumaður wrestler sem var nógu góður til að vinna American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably ákveðið að reyna hendinni á faglegum box. Andstæðingurinn hans var vinur og sparring félagi, “Denver” Ed Martin, hver myndi vinna litað heiminum þungavigtar Hnefaleikar Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete

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Palooka (1934)

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Janúar 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, takes him

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