Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/spskyr/Episode_22b5y7p.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadIn this episode, min fetter Dan og jeg diskuterer utviklingen av proffbryting siden slutten av 1970-tallet og dens innflytelse på fandomen vår. Vi ble enige om at bryting måtte endres på grunn av fremveksten av kabel-TV. Et av bryteselskapene skulle bli nasjonalt. Selv om de ikke nødvendigvis måtte
In the early 1880s, Sorakichi Matsuda, eller Matsada i de fleste amerikanske aviser, reiste til USA for å bryte profesjonelt. Japan hadde ikke en utviklet profesjonell brytekrets, så Matsuda trodde han ville bringe sporten tilbake til Japan etter en læretid i USA. Etter å ha trent en stund, Matsuda signerte en avtale om å bryte den første
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e6nq7d/Episode_21a0s9w.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadIn this episode, Jeg diskuterer den korte, men virkningsfulle karrieren til den originale Terrible Turk, Yusuf Ismail. Update Endeavour kjøpte nylig World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) og fusjonerte det til et selskap med Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Å slå sammen en utført utstilling med legitime konkurranser er kanskje ikke den gode ideen Endeavour så for seg. Hovedinnhold
Oscar Wasem startet sin karriere i St. Louis, Missouri under veiledning av George Baptiste. Wasem was a good enough wrestler that Wasem defeated a young Frank Gotch in 1901. Wasem, St. Louis Champion, pinned Gotch, the Iowa Champion. While Gotch went on to be America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler, Wasem remained a solid journeyman. Wasem supplemented his professional
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, which included two of Jim Londos’ matches from the 1930s. In the first match, Londos wrestles Abe Coleman. In the second match, Londos wrestles a mixed styles match with Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, the Judo black belt and professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
På fredag, November 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, California. Mennene kjempet for en anmeldt $1,000.00 purse. Acton ga vanligvis opp størrelsen til motstanderen, men Acton veide syv pund opp for Fitzsimmons på 148 pund. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mem3a8/Episode_206q4px.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadIn this episode, I discuss the career of Sorakichi Matsada, a 19th Century Japanese pro wrestler. Update I discuss the new podcast schedule. Hopefully, Caleb will be back with me for the next episode. I will release an episode on the second Monday of every month. If scheduling allows, a second episode will be
Desember 17, 1923, Jim Browning wrestled a rare match in his hometown of Verona, Missouri. Four hundred fans from the surrounding area crowded into the venue to watch the match between Browning and Clarence Jenkins, a wrestler from Emporia, Kansas. Both Browning and Jenkins wrestled most of their matches in Kansas during 1923. Browning was starting a career that
November 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
Mai 5, 1898, Yusuf Ismail wrestled Tom Jenkins in Cleveland, Ohio. Ismail only toured the United States for six months in the early part of 1898. Ismail wrestled less than ten matches but left a path of destruction remembered to this day. Ismail made a powerful impression by easily defeating both Evan “Strangler” Lewis. Ismail also made a strong