Heenan Loses to King in Last Bout

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John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “sem 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 “Hakk” í St. Louis during the 1904 Fair heims. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 í Chicago,

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Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943)

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Sherlock Holmes í Washington (1943) er þriðja af tólf Universal Picture framleiðslu á Sherlock Holmes kosningaréttur. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce stjörnumerkt sem Holmes og Watson sig í tveimur kvikmynda fyrir Twentieth-Century Fox og tólf meira fyrir Universal Pictures. Þessi mynd er aftur sett í kringum 1940. Holmes og Watson hafa ferðast til Washington, D.C. to keep secret

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Við eigum að lifa í heilsu og styrk

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For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, Við eigum að lifa í heilsu og styrk (tengja hlekkur) 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 years until losing his

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