Historyk sportów walki i artysta sztuk walki
W lipcu 3, 1905, Marvin Hart weszła do walki o tytuł mistrza świata w wolnym jako 3 do 1 underdog. Jack Root who would be the first light heavyweight championship was the favorite to succeed the recently retired James J. Jeffries. Jeffries would referee this title match to replace him. Marvin Hart had recently beaten Jack Johnson. Widely considered the
Earl Caddock miał stosunkowo krótką, ale bogatą karierę w zapasach zawodowych na przełomie lat 1910. i 20. XX wieku. Zadebiutował zawodowo w 1915 po zdobyciu trzech tytułów krajowych AAU w zapasach amatorskich, Do czasu Caddock walczył wyłącznie zawodowo 1922. Jednak, zostałby uznany za mistrza świata po pokonaniu Joe Stechera w kwietniu 1917. Caddock straciłby tytuł z powrotem
Marzec 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. W tym filmie (związek partnerski), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Jednak, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Walki zawodowe w XIX wieku cieszyły się złą sławą poza granicami kraju
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Rolnik” 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 funtów. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg walczył
On January 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, zabiera go
We included four or more martial arts in our academy’s curriculum. When I look at these arts, I see a distinct reason that I studied each one. These arts cover striking, grappling, ground fighting and a practical self-defense weapon, the cane. I started studying Shotokan karate in the Fall of 1994. I switched to Taekwondo with my nephew in the Spring of 1995. Taekwondo brought
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. Często pisane jako Edward, ale wymawiane jak połączenie pomocy i ochrony, Eduard was as unique as his name. Miałem trudności z napisaniem o nim zbyt wiele, ponieważ słyszałem o nim historie
Jeśli chodzi o politykę maszyn i przestępczością zorganizowaną, Kansas City zawsze przyćmił St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City był także domem dla wielu głośnych strzelanin Gangland. St. Louis’ ostatni przywódca przestępczości zorganizowanej został aresztowany za karty do gry. 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, Kwiecień 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell był zatrudniony jako mechanik w firmie