Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
On February 23, 1906, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Marvin Hart defended his title in Los Angeles. When James J. Jeffries retired as heavyweight champion, Hart and Jack Sharkey fought for the vacant title. Hart was the surprise winner of the fight. Hart refused to fight Jack Johnson, the recognized best heavyweight. Instead he fought Tommy Burns, a 5’07” skilled boxer.
Kirjoitin tämän viestin keskustelun takia, johon minut oli merkitty Twitteriin 1911 uusintaottelu Frank Gotchin ja Georg Hackenschmidtin välillä raskaansarjan painin maailmanmestaruudesta. Jim Cornette, joka sen lisäksi, että hän on yksi ammattipainin parhaista managereista, on myös tunnettu paini-historioitsija, puhui kaksoisristeyksestä toisessa Gotch-Hack-ottelussa
During the Golden Age of Radio, the Shadow was a crusading crime fighter named Lamont Cranston. In this 1933 English film produced by Real Arts Productions, the Shadow is a villainous murderer and blackmailer. The film opens up with the Shadow demanding payment from a famous lawyer. The Shadow promises to expose the lawyer who can’t pay. Facing exposure and
Tiistaina, Helmikuu 22, 1910, Ad Wolgast haastoi kevyen nyrkkeilyn maailmanmestarin, joka taistelee Nelsonin mestaruudesta Richmond Arenalla Point Richmondissa, Kalifornia. 28-vuotias Nelson voitti mestaruuden tyrmäyttämällä mahtavan Joe Gansin 1908. Boxing experts did not expect Wolgast to defeat Nelson even though Wolgast held a newspaper decision over Nelson in 1909. Pundits
In combat sports, a good big man usually beats a good little man. If you are great, you can often make up for huge size discrepancies. Edwin Bibby stood only 5’04” and weighed 160 pounds but defeated many larger wrestlers during his professional wrestling career. Bibby defeated many wrestlers including the gigantic German wrestler William Heygster. Edwin Bibby was able
Marraskuun 30, 1871, a large crowd of men boarded ten rail cars on the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad as it stopped on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. The train continued on to Montgomery Station near Bay St. Ludvig, Mississippi, where the crowd left the rain and made their way into the woods. Such an odd procession
Kun raskaansarjan painin maailmanmestari William Muldoon jäi eläkkeelle 1889, hän toivoi, että hänen suojatansa Ernest Roeber tunnustettaisiin uudeksi mestariksi. Kuitenkin, Muldoon voitti tittelinsä kreikkalais-roomalaisessa painissa, joka oli saksalaissyntyisen Roeberin asiantuntemusta. Valitettavasti, Martinin hyökkäyksiä “Viljelijä” Burns ja Evan “The Strangler” Lewis katapultoitui saalis-saata-purkipainin hallitsevaan tyyliin. Roeberilla oli a
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. Ludvig, where his fighter primarily fought at St. Ludvig’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
When “Venäjän Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, tunnetaan “Hakata” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the world title in Greco-Roman
Torstaina, Syyskuu 7, 1876, Tom Allen defended his World Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship against fellow Englishman Joe Goss. Allen, originally from Birmingham, England, settled in St. Ludvig, Missouri. Allen eventually became a U.S. Citizen. Allen showed a pugnacious personality, inside and outside the ring, making powerful enemies amongst the sporting men in the United States. Allen particularly irritated