Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Spike TV began to broadcast a show that would put mixed martial arts on the mainstream map. 16 fighters lived in a house and competed in a tournament to see which two fighters would win a six figure UFC contract. The Ultimate Fighter would change television and the UFC for good. At one point during the Finale, ten million households
Jack Johnson har alltid varit ett tufft ämne för mig. Jag beundrar hans mod och styrka i att konfrontera hat och trångsynthet i en tid när detta satte hans liv i fara. Han vägrade att anpassa sig och acceptera en position av underlägsenhet till vita amerikaner. Yet, liksom många människor han var en bristfällig människa. He beat his first wife
När jag först började kampsport med en Shotokan karate klass på vår lokala junior college, instruktören delade ut en artikel för alla att läsa. Artikeln omfattade en studie med statistik. Studien fann att av varje 10,000 kampsporter eleverna endast 100 skulle gå på att tjäna svarta bälten. Most beginning students quit after six months
Anderson Silva, widely recognized as the greatest mixed martial artist of all time, lost his rematch with Chris Wiedman for the UFC Middleweight Title on December 28, 2013. Wiedman had defeated Silva for the title on July 6, 2013. It was Silva’s first loss in seven years with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He was the middleweight champion for over 6
Sam McVey, som ansågs vara förebilden i Paris, under sin boxningskarriär från 1902 till 1921, är i stort sett bortglömd i dag. En av de största svarta tungviktare av sin tid, han blev utfryst av att kämpa för världstiteln även efter Jack Johnson besegrade Tommy Burns i 1908. McVey lost to Jack Johnson three times early in his career
En kall januarinatt i 1904, när staden St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Det var 5:45 p.m. den 13 januari på gamla Brown Shoe Company fabrik i hörnet av Washington Avenue och North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
How often have you heard it best to use short copy or long copy for Internet marketing. Some proponents advocate short copy, some advocate long and some try to strike a middle ground. It seems everyone has an opinion though. One person who believed in the use of long copy for selling his services was William Muldoon. Muldoon was
In the sixth of eight Mr. Moto films released between 1937 och 1939, Interpol police officer Kentaro Moto pursues a group of international saboteurs. Twentieth Century – Fox Film Corporation released Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939) (affiliate länk) on January 20, 1939. Peter Lorre returns as the cerebral but deadly Mr. Moto. Ricardo Cortez plays Fabian the Great, a ventriloquist,
På lördag, Juli 15, 1911, Eduard och Magdalena Mosblech välkomnade sitt tredje barn, Gertrude Etta Mosblech, till världen. “Tant Gert” föddes i St. Louis, Missouri, den tredje äldsta av fjorton barn. “Tant Gert” har en speciell plats i Mosblech hereditet för hennes värme, joy and affection for her many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
Georges St-Pierre has been the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Welterweight Champion since 2007 and has been fighting for the title since 2005. While he is only 32 år, the grind of being world champion has caused him to relinquish the belt and step away from the sport for the time being. Some pundits have speculated that he is