Historiador de esportes de combate e artista marcial
Algumas semanas atrás, my second foray into the martial arts came full circle. My daughter started studying Taekwondo again after more than five years away from the sport. It is actually Caity, who brought me back to martial arts in the summer of 2000. After my natural father passed away in July 1999, Eu fiz um exercício físico de um ano
No início de 1911, o público de wrestling considerou três homens a ser o maior desafio para o Campeão do Mundo Frank Gotch. O ex-campeão George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko e “O Terrível Turk” Yussif Mahmout queria a chance de bater Gotch. Gotch, que era bobo, decided to take some of the starch out of his challengers by matching them up
Frankie Darro e Mantan Moreland foram colocados juntos pela primeira vez neste Locatários internacionais, Ltd (Fotos do monograma) filme, Sorte irlandesa (1939). No filme (link de afiliado), Frankie Darro peças “Buzzy” O'Brien, um carregador de hotel, enquanto Mantan Moreland é Jefferson, o porteiro do hotel. “Buzzy’s” father was a police officer killed in the line of duty. “Buzzy” quer ser
On February 7, 1882, John L. Sullivan fought Paddy Ryan for a title, which was certainly the American Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship but probably not the World Title it was billed as. Em 1880, Paddy Ryan won the title in his first and only prize fight before facing the ferocious power puncher Sullivan. The men met in Mississippi City, Mississippi ao redor
An age old question in combat sports is “Who will win between a boxer and a wrestler?” The speculation around this question led to several boxer versus wrestler matches through out history, most notably the disaster between Muhammad Ali and Antonio Inoki in 1976. The matches are mostly no-win affairs except at the box office, é por isso que ambos os promotores
Depois de Jack Johnson tornou-se campeão, uma falta de candidatos fortes causaram pressão pública para montar em James J. Jeffires, o ex-campeão dos pesos pesados aposentado, para acabar com sua aposentadoria e lutar Johnson. Jeffries foi considerado o primeiro e mais credível do “Esperança Branca” contendores. Em seu auge, Jeffries provavelmente não poderia bater Johnson. Em 35 anos de idade, e quase 300
On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Inicialmente, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Louis Departamento de Polícia. When the bank association turned over the
Em abril de 17, 1909, African-American heavyweight boxer Joe Jeanette met World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sam McVey for the title in a fight to the finish. Before the classic bout was complete, the men would box for 49 rounds over 3 hours and 30 minutes. From February 5, 1903, when he beat “Denver” Ed Martin to December 26, 1908, when
Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter was born in St. Louis, Missouri on June 17, 1903. “Babe” was the second child and first daughter born to my second great-uncle Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter and his wife Bertha Johannpeter nee Horst. My grandfather Gilbert Ellis spent a lot of his time with Uncle Jules family, while he was growing up. Vovô Ellis’ father
Em janeiro de 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. However, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. Em Março 1897, o St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an