Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
O xoves, Xaneiro 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, un dos St. Louis’ homes máis ricos, de propiedade de inmobles residenciais e outros activos valorados en 2 millón de dólares. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. El
En xullo de 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Aínda que Georges Carpentier
En marzo 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. Nesta película (enlace de afiliado), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
O martes, Xaneiro 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Rolo, un médico Seattle e loitador profesional que era bo o suficiente para gañar o Heavyweight Championship americano, inexplicabelmente decidiu probar a súa sorte no boxeo profesional. O seu adversario era amigo e compañeiro de adestramento, “Denver” Ed Martin, quen ía gañar o Campionato Mundial de Boxeo Pesado Coloreada. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Agricultores” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 libras. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg loitou
En xaneiro de 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, lévao
Tom Allen naceu en Birmingham, Inglaterra pero pelexou algunhas das súas loitas máis famosas en América. En 1867, Allen mudouse a St. Louis, a maior cidade ao oeste do Mississippi. Allen nunca marchou e usaría St. Louis como a súa base para adestrar para pelexas de premios. Allen loitou sobre todo en pelexas de premios a nudillo desnudo como non o sería o boxeo americano
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Moitas veces escríbese como Edward, pero pronúnciase como unir axuda e pupilo, Eduard was as unique as his name. Eu loitei para escribir moito sobre el porque as historias que escoitei sobre el
Cando se trata de política de maquinaria e crime organizado, Kansas City sempre ofuscado St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City tamén foi o fogar de varios tiroteos entre bandas de alto perfil. St. Louis’ último líder do crime organizado foi detido por xogar cartas. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Abril 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell foi empregado como mecánico en