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Date Posted: 21:45:57 08/20/01 Mon
Author: brec7
Subject: Strange
In reply to: Col. Carlos 's message, "Newspaper Article: Durelle, Dupre Booed By Crowd (Friday, June 2, 1961)" on 21:37:44 08/19/01 Sun

Very odd that they would do something like that- I wonder if it was standard to have wrestling matches on boxing cards at that time?

>Dupre of Shediac is a well known wrestler through the
>Maritimes but has done some boxing.
I`ve read about it, but it`s so weird to think about Emile wrestling!

>Dupre weighed
>220 pounds and was cautioned several times by referee
>John Paul Jones of Halifax for fighting with clenched
>fists.
Strange to see wrestling treated so seriously in the news at this time! I would have thought it would be ridiculed by this point.

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