Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “the Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight

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Gotch Wanted Hack in St. Louis

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Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hachazo” en St. Louis during the 1904 Feria Mundial. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,

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Sherlock Holmes en Washington (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes en Washington (1943) es el tercero de doce producciones universal imagen de la franquicia de Sherlock Holmes. Basil Rathbone y Nigel Bruce interpretó a Holmes y Watson, respectivamente, en dos películas de Twentieth-Century Fox y doce más para Universal Pictures. Esta película se sitúa de nuevo en la década de 1940. Holmes and Watson have traveled to Washington, D.C.. to keep secret

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Charlie Chan en la isla del tesoro (1939)

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Charlie Chan en la isla del tesoro (1939) is the third Twentieth-Century Fox film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. Inspector Chan y Jimmy Chan, interpretado por Victor Sen Yung, están volando a la Exposición Mundial de San Francisco en 1939 como se abre la película. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. También en el vuelo está el amigo de Charlie, Paul Essex., played

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The Way to Live in Health and Strength

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (enlace de afiliado) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 años hasta perder su

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