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Pada hari Kamis, Januari 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” promosi gulat dan kalahkan Munn untuk itu
Pada hari Selasa, Desember 12, 1916, Sam Langford defended the “Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship”, which he won from Sam McVea in February 1916. Antara 1904 dan 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 mendominasi tinju kelas berat Amerika 1899 untuk 1904. Setelah memenangkan Kejuaraan Tinju Kelas Berat Dunia dari Bob Fitzsimmons di 1899, Jeffries membuat 9 mempertahankan gelar yang sukses selama lima tahun ke depan. Dia pensiun tanpa terkalahkan 1905 sebelum dibujuk kembali untuk kembalinya naas melawan Jack Johnson yang hebat. Jeffries tidak memenangkan pertarungannya dengan tinju superior
Saya memutuskan untuk memulai 2020 dengan menggunakan dua contoh dari gulat profesional untuk mendiskusikan mengapa Anda mengubah catatan sejarah yang Anda tulis di masa lalu. Dalam menulis sejarah, Anda dibatasi oleh sumber yang tersedia tentang pokok bahasan tersebut. Sumber primer seperti buku harian, catatan resmi dan otobiografi sangat berharga. Sumber lain seperti surat kabar juga bagus
Evan “Pencekik” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at 5’09” dan ditimbang 170 pon, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
Pada hari yang sama Joe Stecher bergulat dengan Stanislaus Zbyszko untuk versi Kejuaraan Gulat Kelas Berat Dunia yang diakui di St.. Louis, Dan “Pencekik” Lewis challenged “Besar” 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
Pada bulan Maret 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
Pada tanggal 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.” Meskipun Georges Carpentier