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#?A?de, Januaro 31, 2020, Grandmaster Pat Weseman promoted me to 4th Dan in Taekwondo at the Advanced Class. When I started classes with Grandmaster Weseman and her husband Art, I did not foresee reaching this milestone. I originally started taking classes with my nephew Jim in Spring 1995. After getting married in 1996, I stopped taking classes for several
Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April 15, 1925 En Philadelphia, Pensilvanio. Zbyszko defeated Wayne Munn in one of the last shoot (not staged) professional wrestling matches in the United States. It was a shoot or legitimate match because Zbyszko double crossed the “Goldust Triopo” wrestling promotion and beat Munn for the
Marde, Decembro 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Koloris Mondan Superpezulan Bokson Ĉampioneco”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Inter 1904 Kaj 1919, the best African-American boxers, or black Canadians like Langford, were stuck fighting each other for “Colored” Championship. If a white fighter did fight them, it was only to develop their own reputation to
James J. Jeffries dominated American heavyweight boxing from 1899 Al 1904. After winning the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship from Bob Fitzsimmons in 1899, Jeffries made 9 successful title defenses during the next five years. He retired undefeated in 1905 before be lured back for an ill-fated comeback against the great Jack Johnson. Jeffries didn’t win his bouts with superior boxing
I decided to start 2020 by using two examples from professional wrestling to discuss why you would change a historical account you wrote in the past. In writing history, you are limited by the available sources on the subject matter. Primary sources like diaries, official records and autobiographies are very valuable. Other sources like newspapers are good as well but
Evan “Strangler” Lewis estis timiga konkursanto. Kvankam li ne estis granda viro ĉe 5’09” Kaj pezita 170 Funtoj, Lewis’ Mastery de proponoj faris lin egala aŭ pli bona de plejpartoj de luktistoj de lia epoko. Jack Carkeek estis grandega luktisto sed unu matĉo kun Lewis preskaŭ kaŭzis lin emeritiĝi. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Granda” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. En aprilo 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain estas plej bone sciita kiel la lasta kaj plej forta kontestanto al John L. Sullivan en la lasta malplena fingronodo monda ĉampioneca batalo. Malgraŭ la malkapablo de Kilrain venki John L. Sullivan, Li havis sukcesan karieron ambaŭ antaŭ ol kaj post kiam la vico kun la potenca Sullivan. Batalanta por 10 Pli da jaroj en gloved vicoj, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Sur marto 17, 1897, Nuna Monda Superpezula Bokso Ĉampiono James J. Corbett eniris la boksan ringon ĉe Carson Urbo, Nevado. Corbett alfrontis la defion de eksa middleweight boksa ĉampiono Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett enirita kiel la preferata ĝuanta ambaŭ preskaŭ dudek funto peza avantaĝo kaj glitigaj boksaj kapabloj. “Ruddy Robert” Kiel Fitzsimmons estis foje sciita gajnis la Mondan Middleweight Boksa Ĉampioneco en
Sur julio 2, 1921 En Ĵerzeja Urbo, Nov-Ĵerzejo, Reganta Mondan Superpezulan Bokson Ĉampiono Jack Dempsey renkontis luman superpezulan bokson reĝo Georges Carpentier. Boksanta fervorulojn flocked al evento rezultanta en la unua miliona dolara krado en boksanta historion. La matĉo pruvus la malnovan boksan sentencon, “Bona granda viro ĉiam venkas bonan malgrandan viron.” Even though Georges Carpentier