Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
För några veckor sedan, 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, Jag gick på en helårskondition
At the beginning of 1911, the wrestling public considered three men to be the greatest challenge to reigning World Champion Frank Gotch. Former champion George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbyszko and “Den Terrible Turk” Yussif Mahmout wanted the chance to beat Gotch. Gotch, who was nobody’s fool, bestämde sig för att ta lite av stärkelsen ur sina utmanare genom att matcha dem
Frankie Darro och Mantan Moreland var parat ihop för första gången i denna internationella hyresgäster, Ltd (Bilder Monogram) film, Irländsk lycka (1939). I filmen (affiliate länk), Frankie Darro pjäser “Buzzy” O'Brien, ett hotell piccolo, medan Mantan Moreland är Jefferson, Hotell porter. “Buzzy’s” father was a police officer killed in the line of duty. “Buzzy” vill vara
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. I 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 runt
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, vilket är anledningen till att båda initiativtagarna
Efter Jack Johnson blev champion, brist på starka utmanare orsakade tryck från allmänheten att montera på James J. Jeffires, den pensionerade före detta tungviktsmästare, att avsluta sin pensionering och slåss Johnson. Jeffries ansågs den första och mest trovärdiga av de “STORT HOPP” utmanare. I sina bästa år, Jeffries förmodligen inte kunde slå Johnson. Vid 35 years of age and nearly 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. Initialt, 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 polisen. When the bank association turned over the
På April 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 minuter. 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. Morfar Ellis’ father
På Januari 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. Emellertid, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an