Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
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 (enlace de afiliado) 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
O mesmo día Joe Stecher loitou contra Stanislaus Zbyszko pola versión recoñecida do World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship en St.. Louis, E “Estrangulador” Lewis challenged “Gran” Wayne Munn polo seu Championship Wrestling Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight disputada,,en,Lewis perdeu o título para Munn en febreiro,,en,Zbyszko derrotado Munn nunha famosa dobre-cross,,en,A partida entre,,en,acende,,en,esta semana o que significa que o meu bebé se tornou un home,,en,Eu normalmente non me sinto vello pero faime entender o tempo está voando,,en,Vostede segue a evolucionar para unha nova independente trazar o seu propio camiño,,en,Vai facer ben na vida, sempre que permanecer fiel aos seus principios,,en,Retos son temporais,,en. 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
En outubro 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” películas. 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 “Estrangulador” Lewis era un competidor asustado. Aínda que el non era un home grande, a 5’09” e pesou 170 libras, Lewis’ mestría de submissões fixo del un iguais ou mellores da maioría dos loitadores da súa época. Jack Carkeek era un loitador fantástico, pero un xogo con Lewis case o levou a aposentar. Lewis’ reputation was strongly related to his feared
En abril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” fósforo. 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, un local de St. Luis avogado, serviu como xestor dos loitadores profesionais George Baptise, Charley Olson e Fred Beell. Orixinalmente un admirador de George Baptiste, que era unha lenda no St. Louis en torno ás avenidas Cook e Vandeventer. Baptiste empregaría a Quinn como o seu xestor e posteriormente avogado da súa empresa de tendas e toldos. During his
En xaneiro de 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. Mentres británico
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. O plan de Rachmann para establecer Aberg ía como estaba previsto despois do inicio do torneo
A principios de 1916, Martin “Agricultores” Queimaduras, que adestrou e dirixiu a Frank Gotch para o Campionato Mundial de Peso Pesado, comezou a negar que desenvolveu o actual campión estadounidense de peso pesado Joe Stecher. A afirmación parecía estraña porque Burns levaba varios anos traballando con Stecher. Burns axudou a preparar a Stecher para a súa loita polo campionato con Charlie Cutler 1915. En certo xeito, que queima