Combat Sports Historian at Martial Artist
Sam McVey would win the World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship in an era where the three best fighters were black and frozen out of the title picture. He started 1903 out so well, he would put pressure on World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries to give him a match. Jeffries refused to break the “color line” by giving a
Sa 1902, Ang hinaharap na World Heavyweight Boxing Champion na si Marvin Hart ay isang tumataas na kalaban. Pangunahing lumalaban sa labas ng kanyang bayan ng Louisville, Kentucky, Ipinares si Hart laban kay Kid Carter sa Southern Athletic Club noong Mayo 2, 1902. At 17-1, Alam ni Hart na malaki ang maitutulong ng isa pang tagumpay sa pag-secure ng isang heavyweight title fight. Sinadya ng ipinanganak sa Brooklyn na si Kid Carter
Noong Nobyembre 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 taong gulang. Mace was world champion from 1860 upang 1862 and again from 1866 upang 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 upang 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest
Sa Septyembre 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Para sa mga taon, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Dalubhasa si Henry Moses Dufur sa collar-and-elbow wrestling nang propesyonal na nakipagbuno si Dufur noong 1870s at 1880s. Ipinanganak noong Mayo 5, 1844, in Richmond, Vermont, Pangunahing nakipagbuno si Dufur sa hilagang-silangan ng Estados Unidos. Noong Hunyo 27, 1878, Nakipagbuno si Dufur sa isang wrestler na nagngangalang Cox sa Boston Baseball Park sa harap ng limang daang tagahanga. Limang daang tagahanga
Sa Agosto 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Hindi bababa sa iyon ang orihinal na naisip ko at sinipi ng karamihan sa mga istoryador. Moderno
Unang pinsan ng aking lolo, Julius In. “Joe” Johannpeter, ay isa sa St. Louis’ mga pioneer ng eroplano. Julius, na kilala sa pamilya bilang “Punks”, sumali sa Air National Guard noong kalagitnaan ng 1920s. Siya ay ikomisyon bilang isang Tenyente. Nagpalipad si Julius ng mga eroplano para sa militar at sibilyan na hukbong panghimpapawid. Karamihan sa mga lalaki sa unit niya, na kinabibilangan ni Charles
Sa panahon ng huling linggo ng Disyembre 1902, William Rudolph, isang kamakailan ibinalik minero sa Franklin County, at George Collins Ninakaw ang Union Bank sa Union, MO. Ninakaw nila ito magdamag, kapag walang sinuman ay naroroon sa pamamagitan ng pamumulaklak up ang ligtas. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into