Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about combat sports history from 1870 till 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
Medan känd för att slåss mot John L. Sullivan i den senaste priskampen i världsmästerskapet som tävlades under bara knogregler, Jake Kilrain deltog också i många handskarmatcher. Prisfighting gick över från regler för nakna knogar till handskar under Marquess of Queensberry-reglerna (tidig amatör- och proffsboxning) i slutet av 1800-talet. Som Sullivan, Kilrain skulle slåss i dur
I januari 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 måndag, December 13, 1920, Och “Strangler” Lewis vann det första av sex World Heavyweight Wrestling Championships från Joe Stecher. The fact he won the title from his biggest rival and business enemy must have been particularly satisfying. Ett år innan denna match, Stecher och Lewis möttes i en match som varade över tre timmar. Lewis gjorde ett mentalt misstag
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. After
In late 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. Emellertid, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Genom 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 jag har skrivit i flera inlägg, de bästa tungviktsboxarna mellan 1900 och 1919 var de afroamerikanska boxarna tvungna att slåss med varandra för “Färgat mästerskap”. Även efter att den store Jack Johnson äntligen bröt färglinjen och vann världsmästerskapet i tungvikt, han skulle bara försvara titeln mot vita utmanare. Som ett resultat, de tuffaste utmanarna
Sam McVey skulle vinna World Färgat Heavyweight Boxing Championship i en tid där de tre bästa fighters var svarta och utfryst av titeln bilden. Han började 1903 så bra, han skulle sätta press på världstungviktsboxning James J. Jeffries att ge honom en match. Jeffries vägrade att bryta “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 till 1862 and again from 1866 till 1876. After reportedly earning a million dollars in a career that spanned 1857 till 1909, Jem Mace died penniless. He was laid to rest