Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
En decembro de 14, 1915, the International Wrestling Tournament was coming to a close. A featured match revealed promoter Samuel Rachmann was manipulating outcomes to keep interest in his tournament. After the wrestling public lost complete interest in the tournament during its opening few months in the spring, Rachmann introduced one of the most successful gimmicks in professional wrestling history. Rachmann
Monte Attell era o irmán menor do campión mundial de boxeo peso pluma Abe Attell. Monte sempre quedaría atrapado á sombra do seu irmán maior, pero era un loitador talentoso por dereito propio. Monte gañaría o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo de peso gallo durante a súa carreira e estableceríase como un loitador de clase mundial. En 1904, he was a 19-year-old up-and-coming
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) released After The Thin Man (1936), the sequel to the popular Thin Man (1934), o día de Nadal 1936. The film is one of 14 films William Powell and Myrna Loy made together. Powell and Loy play Dashiell Hammet’s characters Nick and Nora Charles respectively. Nick Charles formerly worked as a private detective before marrying the wealthy heiress Nora.
Georg Lurich made his reputation as a professional wrestler competing in European Greco-Roman wrestling tournaments. When Lurich travelled to the United States to ply his trade, he made the transition to catch-as-catch-can wrestling, the dominant style outside of Europe. Lurich adapted well to this style and earned a shot at the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, Frank Gotch, no último de Gotch
A publicación desta semana é para rematar a historia do dobre cruzamento entre Dick Shikat e Danno O'Mahony.. As orixes do dobre cruzado comezaron realmente nun partido con Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis no Madison Square Garden en xuño 9, 1932. Aínda que este partido era unha exhibición prefixada, os loitadores estiveran discutindo sobre a caída do cinto por Lewis
Durante a súa primeira carreira como campión mundial de boxeo peso pluma, Abe Attell estaba baseado en St. Louis, Missouri. Ademais de ter o seu campamento en St. Louis, Attell defendeu o seu título varias veces en St. Louis’ West End Athletic Club. No momento, St. Louis era a cidade máis grande ao oeste do río Mississippi nos Estados Unidos. Naceu Abraham Washington Attell
Bob “Rudy Robert” Fitzsimmons era un boxeador inglés, que gañou o indiscutible peso mediano, campionatos mundiais de peso pesado e semipesado, a principios do século XX. Moitas veces confundido cun australiano porque comezou alí a súa carreira no boxeo, Fitzsimmons viaxou aos Estados Unidos en 1890 para facer campaña polo campionato de peso mediano. Fitzsimmons quedou debaixo 6 pés de alto pero
Fritz Lang fixo un dos seus filmes iniciais de crime en 1922. El dirixiu o Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), que tivo lugar preto de catro horas e trinta minutos. Conta a historia do Dr. Mabuse, profesor de psicanálise. He is also the leader of a criminal ring in the mold of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series. In his multiple
En maio 21, 1915, o Wrestling Torneo Internacional comezou en Nova York. Samuel Rachman promoveu o evento como unha forma de amosar Wrestling Europea grecorromano Champion Alek Aberg. Rachman cría Aberg era o sucesor natural de Wrestling Campión do Mundo de Frank Gotch, que se aposentou en 1913. O primeiro día da competición, nationalistic feelings about World War I popped up
The April 12, 1887 edición do St. Paul Daily Globe carried a story about the bout between feared professional wrestlers, Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis and “Demo pequeno” Joe Acton. Other wrestlers feared Lewis’ ability as a submission expert particularly his abilities with the stranglehold. Joe Acton, while undersized at 150 libras, was a ferocious wrestler. The bout should have been