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I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches 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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Novemba 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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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, Aprili

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Karibu 70 umri wa miaka, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Inatozwa kama Gregorious, mwanamieleka mstaafu na baba wa promota wa mieleka wa London, Zbyszko alionyesha ujuzi wake wa kupigana, hata katika umri wake mkubwa, katika eneo la saini ya filamu. Filamu inaanza na mwanamume anayemfukuza Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking

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Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Kwa bahati mbaya, Wasiliana, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wasiliana, Wasiliana. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match

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Willard “Wild Bill” Longson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on June 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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Na “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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RKO Picha kuletwa Dick Tracy strip tabia ya Comic kwa screen kubwa juu ya Desemba 1, 1945. Wakati filamu ni dhahiri “B” filamu maana ya kuwa ya kwanza katika muswada mara mbili, bado ingekuwa ya riba na mashabiki wengi wa maarufu Comic strip. Chester Gould created the strip in October 1931 for the Detroit

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