Norfolk Virginian-Pilot – December 7, 1941
The greatest wrestler of modern times, Ed “Strangler” Lewis, four times world’s heavyweight champion, comes back to Norfolk next Wednesday night to wrestle Tiger Joe Marsh in a special match of another outstanding card to be presented by Promoter Bill Lewis at the Auditorium. It will be a one-fall bout. Lewis refereed the Marsh-Ryan match here last week. Continue reading
Posted in 1941
Tagged Bobby Bruns, Chief Little Beaver, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, George Zaharias, Joe Marsh, Pete Baltran
Jack Dempsey’s Sports Magazine – June 1938
By Marcus Griffin
On a soft, summer night in June, 1937, there was but one World’s Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. His name was – and still is – Dean Detton. He was an odd sort of fellow, this champion. His spare moments were spent filling the duties of a Deacon in the First Church of Christ of the Latter Day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church. Continue reading
Posted in 1938
Tagged Ali Baba, Bronko Nagurski, Chief Little Beaver, Cliff Olson, Dan O'Mahoney, Daniel Boone Savage, Dean Detton, Earl McCready, Everett Marshall, Jack Sherry, Jim Londos, John Pesek, Len Hall, Lou Thesz, Paul Bowser, Rama Arjan Singh, Ray Steele, Rudy Dusek, Samara Salassie, Steve Casey, Tony Stecher, Vincent Lopez, Yvon Robert
