Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Republic Pictures produced many quality movie serials in the 1930s and 1940s. One of their finer offerings was Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), a twelve chapter serial (affiliate link) based on the popular comic book super hero. Captain Marvel is known as Shazam today. Billy Batson, played by Frank Coghlan, Jr., accompanies the Malcolm Expedition to Siam. While searching an
Am selben Tag rang Joe Stecher gegen Stanislaus Zbyszko um die anerkannte Version der World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. Louis, Und “Würger” 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
Am Oktober 24, 1941, Monogram Pictures released Spooks Run Wild starring the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi. At this point in his career, Bela Lugosi was relegated to “B” Kino. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan play the leaders
Evan “Würger” Lewis war ein unheimlich Wettbewerber. Obwohl er nicht ein großer Mann bei 5’09” und gewogen 170 Pfund, Lewis’ Beherrschung der Einreichungen machte ihn eine gleiche oder bessere der meisten Wrestler seiner Zeit. Jack Carkeek war eine tolle Wrestler, sondern ein Spiel mit Lewis fast ließ ihn in den Ruhestand. Lewis’ Der Ruf hing eng mit seiner Angst zusammen
Im April 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Würger” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” Streichhölzer. 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, ein örtlicher St. Louis Anwalt, fungierte als Manager des professionellen Wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson und Fred Beell. Ursprünglich ein Bewunderer von George Baptiste, Wer war eine Legende in der St. Louis-Viertel rund um die Avenues Cook und Vandeventer. Baptiste beschäftigte Quinn als seinen Manager und späteren Anwalt für seine Zelt- und Markisenfirma. During his
Am January 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. Während britisch
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. Rachmanns Plan zur Gründung von Aberg verlief nach Turnierbeginn wie geplant
In early 1916, Martin “Bauer” Verbrennungen, der Frank Gotch trainierte und zur Weltmeisterschaft im Schwergewicht führte, begann zu leugnen, dass er die Entwicklung des aktuellen amerikanischen Schwergewichts-Champions Joe Stecher hervorgebracht hatte. Die Behauptung erschien seltsam, da Burns seit mehreren Jahren mit Stecher zusammenarbeitete. Burns half dabei, Stecher auf seinen Meisterschaftskampf mit Charlie Cutler vorzubereiten 1915. In gewisser Weise, was Burns