Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
Aprīlī 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” sērkociņi. 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
Frenks Dž. Kvins, vietējā Sv. Luisa advokāts, strādāja par profesionālo cīkstoņu Džordža Baptisa menedžeri, Čārlijs Olsons un Freds Bīls. Sākotnēji Džordža Baptista cienītājs, kurš bija leģenda Sv. Luisas apkaime ap Kuka un Vandeventer avēnijām. Baptiste nolīgs Kvinu par silīti un vēlāk advokātu savā telšu un nojumju uzņēmumā.. During his
Janvārī 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. Kamēr briti
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. Rachmann’s plan for establishing Aberg was going as planned after the tournament kicked off
Sākumā 1916, Čurkste “Lauksaimnieks” Burns, kurš trenēja un vadīja Frenku Goču līdz Pasaules smagajam svaram, sāka noliegt, ka viņš ir attīstījis pašreizējo Amerikas smagsvara čempionu Džo Stečeru. Šis apgalvojums šķita dīvains, jo Bērnss bija strādājis ar Stecher vairākus gadus. Bērnss palīdzēja Steheram sagatavoties viņa čempionāta cīņai ar Čārliju Katleru 1915. Savā ziņā, kas Burns
Decembrī 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 intends to exact revenge on the men who
Kamēr plikas knuckle prizefighter Tom Allen dzimis Anglijā laikā 1840, viņš pavadīja lielāko daļu savas pieaugušo dzīves Sentluisā pēc pārcelšanās uz ASV 1867. Pēc neapmierinoša zaudējuma Džemam Meisam 1870, kur viņš pārsteidza skatītājus ar galantu priekšnesumu, zaudējot pūles, Alens sāka kampaņu par šāvienu uz amerikāni
Janvārī 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 was born in Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 but he became famous as a heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter in America. Settling in St. Louis around 1867, Allen won the American Heavyweight Championship in 1873 and held the title until 1876. He returned to England for a year before returning to St. Louis for good in 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