Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Porén, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford é considerado un dos máis grandes loitadores pound for pound de todos os tempos. Nacido en marzo 4, 1883 en Weymouth caídas, Nova Scotia, é considerado o maior pugilista canadense de todos os tempos. A súa carreira de loitador se estendía desde 1900 para 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. El
O Gorilla (1939) é unha comedia-misterio “B” filme protagonizado os Ritz Irmáns, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi e Lionell Atwill. O filme foi producido pola Twentieth-Century Fox antes de saír a facer “B” películas, the first film on a double bill. The Ritz Irmáns estaban activos entre 1925 e 1960, cando Al Ritz o irmán máis vello faleceu. Os irmáns fixeron
En outubro 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) Championship but remained out of the spotlight until
En novembro 7, 1908, Charles Olson met “Americus” Gus Schonlein for the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. The match proved to be as exciting as observers suspected it would be but it ended in controversy. Olson stood 6’01” but weighed only 170 libras. Born Max Flaskamp in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1879, he took the name Charles or Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 libras. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Porén, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, quen viaxou a América para enfrontarse a Frank Gotch despois de derrotalo
Na noite de Nadal 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko coñeceu a Giovanni Raicievich nun combate de loita libre moi esperado.. Zbyszko, que estaba facendo campaña para unha revancha co campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado Frank Gotch, acordou botar a Raicevich 3 veces en 90 minutos ou ser declarado perdedor. Cando os homes entraron no famoso Madison Square Garden da cidade de Nova York, Zbyszko foi claramente o
En maio 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. As reivindicacións para o campionato eran moi turbias naquel momento. Os matones e os trucos sucios a miúdo ocultaban quen era en realidade o campión americano. Jem Mace, que foi considerado campión do mundo dúas veces mentres loitaba en Inglaterra, foi asinado para coñecer a Tom
E “Estrangulador” Lewis é un dos mellores loitadores profesionais e campións do mundo de todos os tempos. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, que Lewis comezou a usar como promotores e loitadores fixeron a transición da loita profesional a unha exposición prefixada ou "traballada".. Lewis utilizou orixinalmente o bloqueo frontal ou o estrangulador de guillotina. O homónimo de Lewis, Evan "Strangler" Lewis fixo o bloqueo da cara frontal ou
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. Por fin conseguiu