Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Sur Avril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” matches. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his
Sur Janvier 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Le plan de Rachmann pour créer Aberg se déroulait comme prévu après le coup d’envoi du tournoi
In early 1916, Hirondelle “Agriculteur” Burns, qui a entraîné et dirigé Frank Gotch pour le championnat du monde des poids lourds, a commencé à nier avoir développé l'actuel champion américain des poids lourds, Joe Stecher.. Cette affirmation semblait étrange car Burns travaillait avec Stecher depuis plusieurs années.. Burns a aidé à préparer Stecher pour son combat de championnat avec Charlie Cutler en 1915. Dans un sens, what Burns
Sur Décembre 1, 1944, Universal Pictures released the latest horror film in the Frankenstein series, House of Frankenstein, with an all-star cast. Boris Karloff, who originally played Frankenstein’s monster, returns to the series as the mad scientist Dr. Niemann. An earthquake releases him and his hunchbacked assistant Daniel from prison. Dr. Niemann a l'intention de se venger des hommes qui
Alors que le boxeur à poings nus Tom Allen est né en Angleterre pendant 1840, il a passé la majorité de sa vie d'adulte à St Louis après avoir déménagé aux États-Unis en 1867. Après une défaite décevante face à Jem Mace en 1870, où il a impressionné les spectateurs avec une performance galante dans un effort perdu, Allen a commencé à faire campagne pour tirer sur American
Sur Janvier 10, 1927, Universum Film (UFA) released Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The German film company produced a science fiction class, which still holds up today. On the Internet Movie Database website (IMDB), users rate it 8.3 out of 10 stars. It is #104 on the Top 250. In a theme society has wrestled with since the beginning of the
Tom Allen est né à Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 mais il est devenu célèbre en tant que boxeur poids lourd aux mains nues en Amérique. S'installer à St. Louis around 1867, Allen a remporté le championnat américain des poids lourds en 1873 et détenait le titre jusqu'à 1876. Il est retourné en Angleterre pendant un an avant de retourner à St. Louis pour de bon dans 1878. Back
By the end of the 1910s, professional wrestling promoters booked wrestlers in worked or pre-arranged wrestling matches. Occasionally, usually as a result of a double cross, fans would see an actual contest or “shoot” match between the wrestlers. One of these matches occurred in late 1921 and arose from a feud between Tex Rickard, primarily a boxing promoter, and Jack