Londos Wrestles Coleman and Shikina

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I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londosmatches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star

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Londos vs. Nagurski in 1938

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წლის 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several

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Rusty Wescoatt, Athletics and Acting

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Born Norman Edward Wescoatt in Hawaii on August 2, 1911, “Rusty” Wescoatt played football for the University of Hawaii before making his professional wrestling debut in Hawaii during 1933. Wescoatt was also a swimming champion. Wescoatt initially made more news for his swimming than his wrestling when he traveled to the continental United States in 1935. On Easter Sunday, აპრილი

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Night and the City (1950)

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თითქმის 70 წლის ასაკიდან, სტანისლავ ზბისკოს დებიუტი შედგა ფილმში „ღამე და ქალაქი“. (1950). დარიცხული, როგორც გრიგორიუსი, გადამდგარი მოჭიდავე და ლონდონის ჭიდაობის პრომოუტერის მამა, ზბიშკომ აჩვენა თავისი ჭიდაობის უნარი, თუნდაც მის მოწინავე ასაკში, ფილმის ხელმოწერის სცენაში. ფილმი იწყება იმით, რომ მამაკაცი მისდევს ჰარი ფაბიანს, ლონდონელი მძარცველი ყოველთვის ეძებს

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Oldest Wrestling Film in Existence

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Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. ტრაგიკულად, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, სტეჩერი vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match

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Wild Bill Longson Regains Title

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WillardWild BillLongson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, ივნისს 8, 1906 but spent most of his adult life in St. Louis, Missouri. After beginning his career as a professional wrestler in 1931, Longson found himself working for Tom Packs in St. Louis. He never really left as it would be his home base for the remainder

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ლუისი ტიტულს უტოვებს ზონენბერგს

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და “Strangler” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. In 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,

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So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942)

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Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) აპრილს 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career

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Dick Tracy, დეტექტივი (1945)

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RKO სურათები მოუტანა Dick Tracy კომიკური ზოლები ხასიათი დიდ ეკრანზე დეკემბერი 1, 1945. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ ფილმი არის ნამდვილად “B” ფილმი ნიშნავს, რომ პირველი ორმაგი კანონპროექტი, ის მაინც იქნებოდა საინტერესო ბევრი გულშემატკივარი პოპულარული კომიკური ზოლები. Chester Gould შექმნა ზოლები ოქტომბერი 1931 for the Detroit

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Palooka (1934)

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წლის 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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