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Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 £. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Þó, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, sem ferðaðist til Ameríku til að taka á móti Frank Gotch eftir að hann sigraði
Á jólanótt 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko mætti Giovanni Raicievich í langþráðri þungavigtarglímu. Zbyszko, sem barðist fyrir endurkeppni við heimsmeistarann í þungavigt, Frank Gotch, samþykkti að henda Raicevich 3 sinnum inn 90 mínútu eða vera lýstur tapandi. Þegar mennirnir gengu inn í hinn fræga Madison Square Garden í New York borg, Zbyszko var greinilega sá
Á maí 10, 1870, 39-year-old prizefighter Jem Mace met 30-year-old prizefighter Tom Allen in Kennerville, Louisiana for the World Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship. Kröfur um meistaratitilinn voru mjög gruggugar á þeim tíma. Þurrkur og óhreinar brellur hyldu oft hver var í raun og veru Ameríkumeistari. Jem Mace, sem var talinn heimsmeistari tvisvar þegar hann barðist á Englandi, var undirritaður til að hitta Tom
Og “Strangler” Lewis er einn besti atvinnuglímumaður og heimsmeistari allra tíma. Lewis’ signature move was the stranglehold, sem Lewis byrjaði að nota sem verkefnisstjórar og glímukappar breyttu atvinnuglímunni yfir í fyrirfram skipulagða eða „vinna“ sýningu. Lewis notaði upphaflega andlitslásinn að framan eða guillotine choke. Nafna Lewis Evan "Strangler" Lewis lét læsa andlitið að framan eða
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Hann tryggði sér að lokum
On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The March 3, 1946 útgáfa af
Með Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon tengdur hlekkur), Roberto Pedreira tekur upp sögu brasilísks jiu-jitsu á því sem hann telur blómaskeið sitt í Brasilíu, 1950 – 1960. Fyrir utan Carlos og Helio Gracie, nokkrum öðrum akademíum, eins og Oswaldo Fadda, voru líka að dafna. Júdó var að ná í vinsældum en hafði ekki sigrast á Jiu-Jitsu í vinsældum. Vale Tudo leikir voru í hámarki
This film (tengja hlekkur) was the first Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes. Sidney Lanfield directed The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) for Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stars as Dr. John Watson. Rathbone and Bruce would play Holmes and Watson in thirteen subsequent films, one more for Twentieth-Century Fox and twelve for Universal Pictures. This film is a
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