Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Jim Londos tõusis professionaalse maadluse ridades, et saada mitte ainult 1930. aastate, vaid kõigi aegade suurimaks kassastaariks. Siiski, kui London poleks tulnud St. Louis 1920. aastate alguses, lugu oleks võinud olla hoopis teistsugune. Londos õppis püüda-saagi-saab maadlust, samal ajal kui Londos esines karnevaliringil tugeva mehena.
Sam Langford peetakse üheks suurimaks naela nael võitlejad kogu aeg. Sündis märtsis 4, 1883 Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, teda peetakse kõigi aegade suurimaks Kanada poksijaks. Tema võitluskarjäär ulatus aastast 1900 kuni 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. Ta
The Gorilla (1939) is a comedy-mystery “B” film starring the Ritz Brothers, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi and Lionell Atwill. The film was produced by Twentieth-Century Fox before they quit making “B” filmid, the first film on a double bill. The Ritz Brothers were active between 1925 and the 1960s, when Al Ritz the oldest brother passed away. The brothers made
Oktoobril 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) meistrivõistlused, kuid jäi tähelepanu alt välja kuni
On November 7, 1908, Charles Olson kohtus “Americus” Gus Schonlein maadluse kergekaalu maailmameistrivõistlustele. Matš osutus sama põnevaks, kui vaatlejad seda kahtlustasid, kuid see lõppes vaidlustega. Olson oli 6’01” aga kaalus ainult 170 naela. Sündis Max Flaskamp Krefeldis, Nordrhein-Westfalenis 1879, ta võttis nimeks Charles või Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 naela. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Siiski, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, who traveled to America to take on Frank Gotch after he defeated
Jõuluöö 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko met Giovanni Raicievich in a much-anticipated heavyweight wrestling bout. Zbyszko, who was campaigning for a rematch with World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch, agreed to throw Raicevich 3 times in 90 minutes or be declared the loser. As the men entered the famed Madison Square Garden in New York City, Zbyszko was clearly the
Mail 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Claims to the championship were very murky at the time. Thuggery and dirty tricks often obscured who was actually American Champion. Jem Mace, who was considered World Champion twice while fighting in England, was signed to meet Tom
Ed “Strangler” Lewis on üks kõigi aegade suurimaid professionaalseid maadlejaid ja maailmameistriid. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, mida Lewis hakkas promootorite ja maadlejatena kasutama, muutis professionaalse maadluse eelnevalt kokkulepitud või "töötatud" näituseks. Lewis kasutas algselt eesmise näo lukku või giljotiini õhuklappi. Lewise nimekaim Evan “Strangler” Lewis tegi esikülje luku või
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Lõpuks ta kindlustas