Word: danno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrestlers are vaguely divided into regional groups. Each group recognizes as world champion its own champion who, for box-office reasons, usually prefers not to wrestle rival champions. Currently, there are six claimants to the title besides Levin: Rudy Dusek, Danno O'Mahoney, Everett Marshall. Leo Daniel Boone Sav age, Ali Baba, Jack Sherry...
...before three recent bouts, a man had pushed his way into his dressing room, instructed him to "lay down," lose the match. These orders he had faithfully executed until last March. Then, indignant at having to lose all the time, he disobeyed his dressing room order by pinning Champion Danno O'Mahoney in a world championship match. At this testimony Promoter Jack Curley, who with five others rules the wrestling world today, exploded. Such a thing as a "-fixed" match, he yelped, was unknown...
...huge-muscled Irishman who holds the world's wrestling championship, Danno O'Mahoney is not averse to defending his title against all fly-by-nights who wish to grapple. Last week at Holyoke, Mass, the champion stepped into the ring for a bout with an obscure challenger named Judson. Before the fun started, a wild-eyed French-Canadian, named Yvon Robert, who had persistently but unsuccessfully sought a match with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there...
Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge...
Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...