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Raunverulega, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” 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. Rachman's mótið átti að hefjast á miðvikudaginn
Martin “Farmer” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Þó, Burns var mikill wrestler í eigin rétti sínum. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “The Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. Í 1893, Burns var kyrr
Á maí 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. Hann hóf glíma þegar atvinnumaður leikur var samt raunverulegur samkeppni. Hann hélt áfram að ná árangri eftir að leikurinn breyttist til unnið á (prearranged) eldspýtur. Í raun, hann tók þátt í skotkeppni, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 með því að tvístíga kynningarmönnum sínum.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Þó, 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
Nóvember 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, The Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Þó, 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.
Alex Aberg sigraði marga athyglisverða óvini á besta ári á ferli sínum í atvinnuglímu. Í 1915, Aberg keppti bæði í vor- og haustútgáfum New York International Wrestling Tournament. Keppti eingöngu í hans uppáhalds stíl grísk-rómverskrar glímu, Aberg sigraði Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko og Ed “Strangler” Lewis ásamt nokkrum sveinsglímumönnum.
Á einum tímapunkti áður en ég keypti eigin húsið mitt, Ég hélt viðgerðir heimili voru eitt af kunnáttu mína. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Afi Ellis kenndi mér hvernig á að skipta rafmagns-verslunum, skinnur á viðtökum og byggja fullt af hlutum með tré. I put together lots of prefabricated
Á jólanótt 1902, tveir litlir bæir, litlum tíma, haltu menn sprengdu upp öryggisskáp Sambandsins, Missouri banki. Eftir að hafa hótað nokkrum borgurum, þeir lögðu af stað með yfir $15,000. Mennirnir voru tiltölulega öruggir í nokkra mánuði þar til Pinkerton leynilögreglustofan var kölluð til. Pinkerton-hjónin voru með umboðsskrifstofu um allt land, sem var næst því United
Ég las nýlega Choque: Ósögð saga Jiu-Jitsu í Brasilíu, Volume 1 eftir Roberto Pedreira (Amazon tengdur hlekkur), sem segir aðra sögu af upphafi BJJ en okkur hefur verið sagt í ýmsum viðtölum við meðlimi Gracie fjölskyldunnar. “Áfall” þýðir til “átakanlegt” á brasilískri portúgölsku. Þó Pedreira rannsakar tæmandi og vitnar í frumheimildir, aðallega brasilísk dagblöð,