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...Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling...
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