היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Actually, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “אלכס” Åberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. הטורניר של רחמן היה להתחיל יום רביעי
סנונית “חקלאי” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. אולם, Burns was a great wrestler in his own right. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “החונק” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. בתוך 1893, ברנס היה עדיין
On May 11, 1900, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries fought his former employer James J. Corbett. Corbett held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in the early 1890s. Corbett hired the powerfully built Jeffires to help him prepare for his title challengers. Jeffries went on to win the world title from the man, who beat Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. הוא החל היאבקות כאשר המשחק פרו עדיין היה תחרות בפועל. הוא המשיך להיות מוצלח אחרי המשחק השתנה למעובד (prearranged) גפרורים. למעשה, he participated in a shoot contest, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 by double-crossing his promotoers.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. אולם, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
בנובמבר 13, 1930, רולנד V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, בת (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. אולם, West is able to experiment with film techniques like tracking shots, still a novelty in early sound cinema. Editing still dominated as the continuity and story moving technique.
אלכס Åberg ביס רבים ואויבים הבולטים בשנה הגדולה של הקריירה המקצועית שלו ההיאבקות. בתוך 1915, Åberg התחרה בשתי הגירסות באביב ובסתיו של ההיאבקות הבינלאומית בניו יורק הטורניר. מתחרים בלעדי בסגנונו המועדפת של היאבקות בסגנון יווני-רומי, Åberg הביס ד"ר. Benjamin Roller, ולאדק Zbyszko ואד “<תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "976" = bbox_w "1948" = bbox_h "52" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "” לואיס יחד עם מספר המתאבקים השכירים.
בשלב מסוים לפני שקניתי את הבית שלי, תיקונים בבית חשבתי שהיו אחד מהכישורים שלי. I helped my grandfather, גילברט אליס, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. סבא אליס לימדה אותי איך להחליף שקעי חשמל, מכונות כביסה בכיורים ולבנות הרבה דברים עם עץ. I put together lots of prefabricated
בליל חג המולד 1902, two small town, small-time, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
I recently read Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, נפח 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazon affiliate link), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “Choque” translates to “shocking” in Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,