Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Født Norman Edward Wescoatt på Hawaii i august 2, 1911, "Rusty" Wescoatt spilte fotball for University of Hawaii før han debuterte for profesjonell bryting på Hawaii under 1933. Wescoatt var også svømmemester. Wescoatt kom først med flere nyheter for svømmingen enn brytingen sin da han reiste til det kontinentale USA i 1935. Påskedag, April
April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff at the Hippodrome in New York City. Promoters once again called on Lewis to settle a promotional conflict. The opposing group selected Lee Wykoff, a 36-year-old shooter from Kansas. Wykoff stood six feet, one inches tall and weighed two hundred eighteen pounds. The 44-year-old Lewis
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5vctyw/Episode_177wnp9.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadUpdate Jeg vil fortsette å gi ut to episoder i måneden i overskuelig fremtid. Neste episode slippes på mandag, Januar 23, 2023. Jeg deler også tankene mine om at Vince McMahon tvinger seg tilbake til styret for World Wrestling Entertainment. Hovedinnhold Jeg snakker om det jeg visste om hver
I am ashamed to say I recently discovered the career of Cora Livingston, while researching the development of the local promotor system in professional wrestling during the 1910s and 1920s. Mildred Burke was the first major woman’s wrestling champion of which I was aware. However, Cora Livingston claimed the World Championship a year before Burke was even born. Cora Livingston
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vd4ygz/Episode_16av84t.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadUpdate To start the podcast, I make a major announcement about the podcast going forward. Hovedinnhold I denne episoden, I read an account of Edwin Bibby vs. Duncan C. Ross from Shooting or Working: The Story of the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Recommendation I recommend a new series detailing stories from the territories.
På Mars 10, 1870, Colonel James Hiram McLaughlin competed on the last night of the International Wrestling Tournament in Detroit, Michigan. The tournament ran for almost two months before the finale on March 10th. Wrestling historians frequently credit J. H. McLaughlin as being the first professional wrestler to live only on his earnings as a professional wrestler. Most professional wrestlers
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4tm282/Episode_15bmu6s.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadUpdate We have a guest in the studio this week. My cousin, Dan Zimmerman, joins us to talk about attending live wrestling cards in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Dan recounts how I almost got us both killed during a WWF wrestling card at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis during 1986. Main Topic
Et av de eldste ordtakene innen kampsport er “en god stor mann slår alltid en god liten mann”. Det er grunnen til at vi har vektinndelinger i boksing, bryting og blandet kampsport. On Tuesday, November 2, 1881, 160-pund Edwin Bibby beviste at det er unntak fra denne regelen. Mens liten, Edwin Bibby var spesielt sterk for sin størrelse.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ysgcxd/Episode_1488754.mp3Podcast: Spill i nytt vindu | DownloadUpdate Jeg begynner episoden med å diskutere behovet for å veksle mellom co-hosted og solo episoder i overskuelig fremtid. Hovedinnhold Jeg diskuterer den tidlige karrieren til den første anerkjente verdensmesteren i bryting for kvinner, Cora Livingston. I 1908, Livingston hevdet den amerikanske kvinnebryterens mester etter at Livingston beseiret Hazel Parker. Cora Livingston vant
(Dette utdraget er fra min nyeste bok om historien til American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.) Jenkins viste seg som den beste konkurrenten så snart McLeod vant tittelen. På onsdag, November 17, 1897, Tom Jenkins kjempet mot tidligere tittelholder Martin "Farmer" Burns i Indianapolis, Indiana. Mennene kjempet en beste to-av-tre-fall-kamp i henhold til catch-as-catch-can-brytingsregler. Jenkins sto