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Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
In mixed style bouts between wrestlers and strikers, the adage is once the wrestler gets his hands on the striker, the fight is over. In most mixed style bouts between wrestlers or grapplers and boxers, the grappler normally wins after dragging the striker to the ground. Ray Steele defeated Battling Levinsky. “Judo” Gene LeBell smashed Milo Savage. In modern
On Tuesday, Jún 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
Keď Wladek Zbyszko cestoval zo Spojených štátov do Brazílie na lukratívne turné po dobre rozvinutom brazílskom profesionálnom wrestlingovom okruhu, Zbyszko len málo tušil, že bude zápasiť prvýkrát po takmer dvadsiatich rokoch. Rovnako ako ich americkí kolegovia, Brazílski profesionálni zápasníci navzájom spolupracovali, aby pre fanúšikov pripravili vzrušujúce exhibície. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a
Before immigrating to the United States, Taro Miyake first settled in England. Miyake assisted Yukio Tani with establishing Judo and Jujitsu in England. Miyake and Tani challenged professional wrestlers to matches as part of their effort to establish their martial arts. Tani took part in challenge matches prior to the arrival of Miyake. Miyake grappled his first opponent, Tani himself,
Októbra 20, 1920, Ad Santel, známy „šľapák“ alebo skúsený zápasník podriadenosti, stretol Taro Miyake, čierny pás v džude a džudžicu, v zmiešanom zápase vs. súťaž v jujitsu. Po asi 20 sekundy, Santel zabezpečil polovičný Nelson na Miyake, zdvihol ho z podložky a zrazil Miyakea na podlahu. Náraz Miyake stratil zmysel. Miyake’s seconds assisted him back
Novembra 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. Však, we spoke in general about the history
From late 1921 na 1923, John Contos promoted professional wrestling in St. Louis, Missouri. Však, 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, Január 4, 1924.
An ad was printed in the January 16, 1921 vydanie St. 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