Gorgeous George, with Bob Hope as his valet, vs. Hollywood actor, Burt Lancaster.
Silent footage from the St. John’s Hospital Guild circus benefit at the Pan-Pacific Grounds in Los Angeles.
The show raised more than $175,000 for a new 100-bed hospital wing.
September 4 1948
When the Disney heads had "Basil of Baker Street" changed to the more generic and vague sounding "The Great Mouse Detective", the filmmakers did not take it well and promptly responded with the greatest memo ever written.
If we're talking books, the first book focused on exposing the business was 1913's Russian book "How Wrestlers Deceive the Public (The Secret of the Tournaments)".
Written by Petr D. Yaroslavtsev (an ex-wrestler who then became one of the major Russian managers and promoters).
🕯️ June 13th – Remembering Mitsuharu Misawa
“Don’t be someone who says ‘I’ll do my best.’
Be someone who can say ‘I did my best.’”
— Mitsuharu Misawa
Seventeen years on, your legacy still shapes the soul of professional wrestling.
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