Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
W walkach mieszanych pomiędzy zapaśnikami i napastnikami, takie powiedzenie brzmi, gdy zapaśnik położy ręce na napastniku, walka się skończyła. W większości walk w stylu mieszanym pomiędzy zapaśnikami lub grapplerami i bokserami, grappler zwykle wygrywa po przeciągnięciu napastnika na ziemię. Ray Steele pokonał Battling Levinsky. „Judo” Gene LeBell rozwalił Milo Savage’a. W nowoczesnym
We wtorek, Czerwiec 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning challenged Taro Miyake in a mixed styles match in Nashville, Tennessee. Browning, a wrestler from Verona, Missouri recently left the Missouri-Kansas area to wrestle in Tennessee and Kentucky. The 21-year-old Browning was developing a reputation for solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters so much in the 1920s that the promoters put the
Yukio Tani arrived in England at the turn of the 20th Century. Tani spread ju-jitsu by taking part in challenge matches against professional wrestlers. As part of these challenge matches, Tani demonstrated ju-jitsu. Through the success of these challenges and demonstrations, Tani saw many students sign up to train with him. One of Tani’s best English students used the stage
Kiedy Władek Zbyszko podróżował ze Stanów Zjednoczonych do Brazylii na lukratywną trasę po dobrze rozwiniętym brazylijskim torze wrestlingowym, Zbyszko mało podejrzewał, że zmierzy się w swoich pierwszych zawodach od prawie dwudziestu lat. Podobnie jak ich amerykańscy odpowiednicy, Brazylijscy zawodowi zapaśnicy pracowali ze sobą, aby zorganizować ekscytujące wystawy dla fanów. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a
Przed emigracją do Stanów Zjednoczonych, Taro Miyake po raz pierwszy osiadł w Anglii. Miyake asystował Yukio Tani w tworzeniu Judo i Jujitsu w Anglii. Miyake and Tani challenged professional wrestlers to matches as part of their effort to establish their martial arts. Tani brał udział w meczach wyzwań przed przybyciem Miyake. Miyake zmierzył się ze swoim pierwszym przeciwnikiem, Sam Tani,
Październik 20, 1920, Ad Santel, a noted “hooker” or skilled submission wrestler, met Taro Miyake, a Judo and Jujitsu black belt, in a mixed wrestling vs. jujitsu contest. After about 20 sekund, Santel secured a half-Nelson on Miyake, lifted him off the mat and slammed Miyake to the floor. The impact knocked Miyake senseless. Miyake’s seconds assisted him back
W listopadzie 19, 1935, professional wrestler Ray Steele met professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky in a mixed wresting versus boxing bout. The Missouri State Athletic Commission created special rules for the match. The commissioners ruled the bout would consist of three-minute rounds like a boxing match. The commissioners allowed Levinsky to punch even if he was on the mat. Steele could
I was recently honored to be a guest on The Martial Culture Podcast. Coach Rene Driefuss and Matt Peters were excellent hosts. I truly enjoyed my time on their podcast. We spoke about one of my books, Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt: The Matches That Made and Destroyed Legitimate American Professional Wrestling in particular. Jednak, we spoke in general about the history
From late 1921 do 1923, John Contos promoted professional wrestling in St. Louis, Missouri. Jednak, Contos decided to leave promotion to focus on managing the career of budding star Dan Kolov. Prior to leaving St. Louis, Contos sold the promotion to Tom Packs, his nephew and assistant in the promotion. Packs’ first card was scheduled for Friday, Styczeń 4, 1924.
An ad was printed in the January 16, 1921 edycja Street. Louis Post-Dispatch advertising a mail order course on Jujitsu from Capt. Allan Smith. Capt. Smith was originally born in Scotland but was fascinated with demonstrations of Japanese Jujitsu (actually Judo) he saw in England. Smith traveled to Japan with a company and learned Judo reaching 1st degree