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Dejansko, 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. Rachmanov turnir naj bi se začel v sredo
Martin “Kmet” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Vendar, Burns je bil velik borec v svoji desni. 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. V 1893, Burns je bil miren
Maja 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. Začel je rokoborbo, ko je pro igra še vedno dejanska konkurenca. Nadaljeval je, da bi bil uspešen, ko se igra spremeni v obdelano (prearranged) tekme. Dejansko, se je udeležil strelskega tekmovanja, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 z dvojnim križanjem njegovih promotorjev.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Vendar, 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
Novembra 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. Vendar, 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 je v najboljšem letu svoje profesionalne rokoborske kariere premagal številne pomembne sovražnike. V 1915, Aberg je tekmoval v spomladanski in jesenski različici newyorškega mednarodnega rokoborskega turnirja. Tekmuje izključno v svojem priljubljenem slogu grško-rimskega rokoborbe, Aberg je premagal Dr. Benjamin Roller, Wladek Zbyszko in Ed “Strangler” Lewis skupaj s številnimi potniškimi rokoborci.
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
Na božični večer 1902, dva mestece, mali čas, rop moški pihal odpreti varno Unije, Missouri Bank. Po grozi nekaj državljanov, se je začelo z več kot $15,000. Možje so relativno varna za nekaj mesecev, dokler je agencija detektiv Pinkerton poklical. V Pinkertons imeli državno agencijo, ki je najbližja stvar, Združeno
I recently read Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil, Volume 1 by Roberto Pedreira (Amazonova pridružena povezava), which tells an alternate story of BJJ’s beginnings than we have been told by in various interviews with members of the Gracie Family. “Šok” translates to “shocking” in Brazilian Portuguese. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,