Combat kev ua si Historian thiab Martial Artist
Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis tub ceevxwm. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready
Frank Gotch tuas cov npe ntawm America cov loj tshaj tseeb kev wrestler. Gotch competed nyob tseeb feem coob txojkev uas muaj ob peb tug tos txheej txheem ntawm los “ua haujlwm” qhov yuam kev ces muab pov tseg rau hauv cov ntse. Los ntawm 1904 los sis 1905, tsis muaj leej twg yuav yeej tuav Gotch yog tias nws pub nws. Nyob rau thaum xyoo nws cov hauj lwm, Gotch yog tsis li ntawd, hom. Nws poob qhov yuam kev rau nws saib,
Nyob rau lub ib hlis ntuj 10, 1940, Rowland V. Hli thiaj tso nws cov nyiaj tsawg feature zaj duab xis tus tub of Monte Cristo (1940) los ntawm United ntxias. Rowland V. Hli pib films rau koj tswj 1920 thiab yuav ua 59 films ua ntej retiring hauv 1945. Hauv no zaj duab xis, Louis Hayward plays The suav of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes, ❏ Jr ❏. The Count inherits his father’s money and the
Hnub Monday, Tej zaum 30, 1892, Tus poj Peter Jackson boxed ib bout gloved bout nrog tus protégé Frank Slavin. Leej txiv neej nyob thiab fought nyob Australia, Txawm hais tias kiv cua txaus siab coj Jackson ncig xyuas lub ntiaj teb coj kom zoo dua cov nyiaj txiag hauv lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas thiab hais. Raws li nyob rau Australia, Jackson feem ntau pom dawb boxers unwilling mus tua nws. mentsis
St. Louis, Thaum pib lub xyoo pua 20th, Muaj ib tug mas professional boxing scene. Abe Attell, Txawm hais tias yug hauv San Francisco, raws li nyob rau hauv St. Louis. Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 1, 1904, Attell defended nws ntiaj teb Featherweight Boxing Championship tiv thaiv rival Harry Forbes. Forbes no kuj yog ib tug mus tsis tu ncua rau lub St. Louis boxing scene. Forbes tua yeej Danny Dougherty rau lub
Jim Londos sawv los ntawm cov ranks ntawm kev wrestling ua lub biggest box office hnub qub uas tsis zoo xwb lub 1930s tab sis ntawm all-time. Txawm li cas los, Yog Londos twb tsis tuaj rau St. Louis hauv lub 1920s thaum ntxov, Zaj dabneeg yuav tau sib txawv heev. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford puas tau yog ib qhov loj tshaj quj quj fighters txhua lub sij hawm. Yug rau lub peb hlis ntuj 4, 1883 nyob rau hauv cov kev uas yuav ntog Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Nws yog qhov loj tshaj Canadian boxer txhua lub sij hawm. Nws ntaus hauj lwm stretched ntawm 1900 mus 1926. Langford tsuas sawv 5 taw rau thiab ib nrab nti siab thiab weighed 185 phaus thaum nws heaviest. Nws
Tus liab twm hawj (1939) yog comedy-tsis “B” zaj duab xis starring cov nus/kwv Ritz, Joseph Calleia, Bela Lugosi thiab Lionell Atwill. Naam heev uas ua los ntawm cov hma liab hnub 20 xyoo pua ua ntej lawv txiav luam yeeb vaj “B” films, naam thawj ntawm ib nqi coj. Cov Ritz cov kwv tij nyob nquag sib 1925 thiab cov mus txog 1960, Thaum twg Al Ritz kwv tij hiob tso tseg. Cov kwv tij ua
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved nplaum dynamite tawm nyob rau hauv tej pob khoom me me. Beell, tau zus ib lub teeb heavyweight wrestling, tua yeej tus American heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod. Ib lub Beell parlayed 1906 rau hauv xwb tus American Heavyweight tau zus ib Dan McLeod thiab tam sim no American Heavyweight tau zus ib Frank Gotch. Yeej tus American Middleweight Beell (Sib Heavyweight) Championship tab sis tseem nyob hauv qhov tsom teeb kom txog rau thaum
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 7, 1908, Charles Olson ntsib “Americus” Gus Schonlein rau lub ntiaj teb teeb Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Ntais ntawv proved yuav exciting li observers tsam nws yuav tab sis nws twb nyob controversy. Olson sawv 6’01” tab sis weighed xwb 170 phaus. Yug Max Flaskamp hauv Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia nyob rau hauv 1879, Nws coj lub npe Charles los yog Charley Olson