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På April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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På Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, en noterad "fnask" eller skicklig submission wrestler, met Taro
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After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 år, 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
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 had many enemies but the greatest mystery for Vance is how Coe was murdered in a locked room. Vance deltog i en hundutställning med Coe och hans
På 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
Earl Caddock hade en relativt kort men historia professionell brottningskarriär i slutet av 1910-talet och början av 1920-talet. Gör sin professionella debut i 1915 efter att ha vunnit tre AAU National-titlar i amatörbrottning, Caddock brottades bara professionellt tills 1922. Emellertid, han skulle bli erkänd som världsmästare efter att ha besegrat Joe Stecher i april 1917. Caddock skulle förlora titeln tillbaka
På torsdag, Januari 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, en av St. Louis’ rikaste män, ägde bostadsfastigheter och andra tillgångar värderade till 2 miljon dollar. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Han
På Juli 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.” Även om Georges Carpentier
På mars 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. I denna film (affiliate länk), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
På tisdag, Januari 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, en Seattle läkare och pro brottare som var tillräckligt bra för att vinna det amerikanska Heavyweight, oförklarligt valt att prova sin hand på proffsboxning. Hans motståndare var vän och sparringpartner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Farmer” 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 pounds. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg brottades in
På Januari 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, tar honom