Slattery Exposes Wrestling

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During June 1927, the Illinois state legislature rocked the professional boxing and professional wrestling worlds when a subcommittee started investigating the state athletic commission. The legislature believed that promoters were putting on “fake” contests in both sports. Before the committee concluded its work, it suspended the boxing and wrestling licenses of 130 athletas. These revelations further disillusioned wrestling fans aggravated

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Bernar Macfadden in S. Ludovici

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Bernarr MacFadden, born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, on August 16, 1868, founded a publishing company in 1899 that still operates today. MacFadden, an early proponent of physical culture, authored books and published magazine about physical culture, early bodybuilding training. MacFadden moved into pulp magazines like True Detective in the 1920s. Before MacFadden made his fortune as a publisher

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Jim Londos Luctationes in Co-Principalis Event

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Jim Londos developed a national reputation as one of the top professional wrestlers during the 1910s. Autem, Londos’ career took a major step forward when Londos started wrestling for the fledgling St. Louis promotion in the early 1920s. Londos headlined the first card in late 1921. Londos wrestled on the second card on Thursday, January 26, 1922, as well. Current

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“Agricola” Ardens Impedimenta Jeffries

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Cum magna Jack Johnson victus Tommy ardet in mundo heavyweight pugilatu pilae, In pugilatu institutionem coepi investigatione ad a "album spes 'ad clade Johnson. In desperatione invenire aliquem ad clade Johnson, Promoters et ludis scriptores Coepi lobying prioris Mundi heavyweight Champion James Jam. Jeffries usque ad summum suum secessu ad pugna Johnson. Jeffries recessit invicta in 1905. Postquam

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Episode 72 – Miyake vs. Santel

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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/yrvcvp86fj5ja5zg/Episode_72_agae9.mp3Podcast: Vestibulum in tortor | DownloadUpdate I am giving away Wayfarer in a Foreign Land: Sorakichi Matsuda Wrestles in America between Monday, December 30, 2024 to Friday, January 3, 2025. Dan and I will release the next episode on Monday, January 13, 2025. Main Content I discuss the October 1916 mixed styles match between Taro Miyake and Ad Santel.

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Stecher Wrestles Rudy Dusek

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On Memorial Day, Jube 30, 1925, Joe Stecher defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko in a worked match to reclaim the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that Stecher had lost in December 1920. Stecher was part of a conspiracy that paid Stanislaus Zbyszko to double-cross Wayne “Big” Munn in April 1925. Zbyszko defeated Munn legitimately in one of professional wrestling’s most famous double-crosses. As

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Ludovicus Defendit contra Cantonwinum

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Die Jovis, July 9, 1925, Ed “Strangler” Lewis made one of the early defenses of his version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lewis wrestled Howard Cantonwine in front of 5,000 fans at McNulty Park. After Stanislaus Zbyszko double-crossed Sandow’s and Lewis’ promotional group by defeating Wayne “BigMunn legitimately, both Joe Stecher and Ed “Strangler” Lewis

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Whistler luctatur Dufur in Novi Eboraci

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Die Jovis, Itinera 31, 1881, 200 fans filtered into New York’s Turnverein Hall to watch Clarence Whistler wrestle Henry Moses Dufur in a three-out-of-five-falls catch-as-catch-can wrestling match with both wrestlers wearing jackets. The promoters used the rules and jackets to even the chances of each wrestler to win. Clarence Whistler specialized in Greco-Roman wrestling. Whistler took World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion

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