Cīņas sporta vēsturnieks un cīņas mākslinieks
Faktiski, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Aberg, 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. Rahmana turnīram bija jāsākas trešdien
Čurkste “Lauksaimnieks” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Tomēr, Burns bija liels cīkstonis savā labā. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns won the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Evan “Strangler” Lewis in 1895. Burns held the title for two years. Uz 1893, Burns bija nekustīgs
Gada maijā 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. Viņš sāka cīņas, kad pro spēle vēl bija faktiskā konkurence. Viņš turpināja veiksmīga pēc spēles mainīts uz apstrādāts (prearranged) sērkociņi. Patiesībā, viņš piedalījās šaušanas konkursā, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 divreiz šķērsojot savus veicinātājus.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Tomēr, 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
Novembrī 13, 1930, Roland V. West released The Bat Whispers (1930), the talkie version of his silent classic, Bat (1926). The film follows faithfully the script of the original. Tomēr, 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.
Alekss Abergs savas profesionālās cīkstoņa karjeras lielākajā gadā uzvarēja daudzus ievērojamus ienaidniekus. Uz 1915, Abergs piedalījās Ņujorkas starptautiskā cīņas turnīra pavasara un rudens versijās. Sacentās tikai sev vēlamajā grieķu-romiešu cīņas stilā, Abergs uzvarēja Dr. Benjamin Roller, Vladeks Zbiško un Ed “Strangler” Lūiss kopā ar vairākiem cīkstoņiem.
At one point before I bought my own house, I thought home repairs were one of my skills. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Grandpa Ellis taught me how to replace electrical outlets, washers on sinks and build lots of things with wood. I put together lots of prefabricated
Ziemassvētku naktī 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, Tilpums 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazon filiāles saite), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “Šoks” translates to “shocking” in Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,