Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Neljapäeval, Jaanuar 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 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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 Trio” wrestling promotion and beat Munn for the
Teisipäeval, Detsember 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Vahel 1904 ja 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 domineeris Ameerika raskekaalu poksis 1899 kuni 1904. Pärast seda, kui võitis Bob Fitzsimmonsilt raskekaalu poksi maailmameistrivõistlused 1899, Jeffries tegi 9 edukad tiitlikaitsed järgmise viie aasta jooksul. aastal läks ta võitmatult pensionile 1905 enne meelitatakse tagasi õnnetule tagasitulekule suure Jack Johnsoni vastu. Jeffries ei võitnud oma kohtumisi suurepärase poksiga
Otsustasin alustada 2020 kasutades kahte näidet professionaalsest maadlusest, et arutada, miks peaksite muutma oma minevikus kirjutatud ajaloolist ülevaadet. Ajaloo kirjutamisel, teid piiravad selle teema kohta saadaolevad allikad. Peamised allikad nagu päevikud, ametlikud andmed ja autobiograafiad on väga väärtuslikud. Muud allikad, nagu ajalehed, on samuti head, kuid
Evan “Strangler” Lewis oli hirmutav konkurendi. Kuigi ta ei olnud suur mees 5’09” ja kaalutakse 170 naela, Lewis’ meisterlikkust esildisi teda võrdne või parem kõige maadlejate tema ajastu. Jack Carkeek oli kohutav maadleja kuid üks mängu Lewis peaaegu pani teda pensionile. 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 “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Märtsil 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
Juulil 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Even though Georges Carpentier