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Posts about martial arts concepts and history.
Sunday, Kaum ib hlis 9, 1913, African American boxer Sam McVea, or McVey, battled Professor Stevenson, a Jujitsu practitioner, in a mixed styles bout in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia. McVea and Stevenson fought ten, five-minute rounds, with three-minute intermission between rounds. McVea and Stevenson fought for $100 ib sab. In grappler vs. boxer matches, the grappler usually won, but McVea
Rau hnub Saturday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 30, 1916, Taro Miyake fought Ben de Mello, a professional boxer, in a mixed styles six round challenge bout. 1,000 spectators filed into the Hilo Armory to watch a rare legitimate contest between a boxer and jiu jitsu expert. Referee H.S. Prager started the bout between the 35-year-old Miyake and the younger boxer. Miyake warily circled de
Txog rau hnub Friday, Lub peb hlis ntuj 11, 1932, wrestlers George Tragos and Rudy Dusek faced boxers, Stanley McRae and Tom Pivac in wrestler versus boxer bouts. It took the fans longer to get to their seats than it took the combatants to complete the bouts. The men fought the pair of bouts in Memphis, Tennessee at the Auditorium. Fans know George Tragos, ib
Sib xyaw style bouts ntawm wrestlers thiab strikers, Qhov ntxiv yog ib zaug tus wrestler tau nws txhais tes rau tus striker, Kev sib ntaus no lawm. Feem ntau mixed style bouts ntawm wrestlers los yog grapplers thiab boxers, Tus grappler nquag yeej xwb tom qab dragging tus striker rau hauv pem teb. Ray Steele tua yeej Battling Levinsky. "Judo" Gene LeBell smashed Milo Savage. niaj hnub no
Tuesday, Lub rau hli ntuj 3, 1924, up-and-coming wrestler Jim Browning sib tw Taro Miyake hauv ib mixed styles match hauv Nashville, Tennessee. xim av, Ib wrestler ntawm Verona, Missouri nyuam qhuav tshuav lub Missouri-Kansas cheeb tsam wrestle hauv Tennessee thiab Kentucky. Tus 21 xyoo Browning yog tsim ib lub koob npe nrov rau solid wrestling. Browning impressed promoters heev nyob rau hauv lub 1920s tias cov promoters muab cov
Taro Miyake originally came to prominence as a jiu jitsu expert fighting legitimate mixed styles contests with professional boxers and wrestlers. Miyake used the legitimate contests, most of which he won, to generate interest in jiu jitsu. Like many judo and jiu jitsu instructors, Miyake discovered how hard it was to make a sustainable income from martial arts instruction. Taro
Txog rau hnub Friday, Kaum ib hlis 27, 1891, former American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Acton wrestled future World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco, California. The men wrestled for a reported $1,000.00 hnab tawv pojniam. Acton usually gave up size to his opponent but Acton outweighed the 148-pound Fitzsimmons by seven pounds. The men wrestled a two-out-of-three falls match according to catch-as-catch-can wrestling
When Wladek Zbyszko travelled from the United States to Brazil for a lucrative tour on Brazil’s well-developed professional wrestling circuit, Zbyszko little suspected that he would wrestle his first contest in almost twenty years. Like their American counterparts, Brazilian professional wrestlers worked with each other to put on exciting exhibitions for the fans. The Brazilian professional wrestlers occasionally wrestled a
Before immigrating to the United States, Taro Miyake first settled in England. Miyake assisted Yukio Tani with establishing Judo and Jujitsu in England. Miyake and Tani challenged professional wrestlers to matches as part of their effort to establish their martial arts. Tani took part in challenge matches prior to the arrival of Miyake. Miyake grappled his first opponent, Tani himself,
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 20, 1916, Ad Santel, Ib tug muab sau "hooker" los yog skilled submission wrestler, met Taro Miyake, a Jujitsu black belt, in a mixed wrestling vs. jujitsu contest. After about 20 vib nas this, Santel secured a half-Nelson on Miyake, lifted him off the mat and slammed Miyake to the floor. The impact knocked Miyake senseless. Miyake’s seconds assisted him back to the