Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportskunstner
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 til 1930.
I december 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
Mens den er berømt for at kæmpe mod John L. Sullivan i den sidste verdensmesterskabspræmiekamp, der konkurrerede under bar kno regler, Jake Kilrain deltog også i mange handskekampe. Præmiekampen gik fra regler for bare knoer til behandskekampe under Marquess of Queensberry-reglerne (tidlig amatør og professionel boksning) i slutningen af det 19. århundrede. Ligesom Sullivan, Kilrain ville kæmpe i dur
I januar 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so he did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last Undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
På mandag, December 13, 1920, Ed “Strangler” Lewis vandt det første af seks World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships af Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. A year before this match, Stecher og Lewis mødtes i en kamp, der varede over tre timer. Lewis lavede en mental fejl i
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. Efter
I slutningen af 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Farmer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Men, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Ved 1902, George
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
Som jeg har skrevet i flere indlæg, de bedste sværvægtsboksere imellem 1900 og 1919 blev de afroamerikanske boksere tvunget til at kæmpe mod hinanden for “Farvede Mesterskab”. Selv efter at den store Jack Johnson endelig brød farvelinjen og vandt World Heavyweight Championship, han ville kun forsvare titlen mod hvide kandidater. As a result, de hårdeste udfordrere
Sam McVey would win the World Colored Heavyweight Boxing Championship in an era where the three best fighters were black and frozen out of the title picture. He started 1903 out so well, he would put pressure on World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Jeffries to give him a match. Jeffries refused to break the “color line” by giving a
På November 30, 1910, reports came from England that former World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion Jem Mace had died at 79 år. Mace was world champion from 1860 til 1862 and again from 1866 til 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 til 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest