Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
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Lorsque Wladek Zbyszko voyagea des États-Unis au Brésil pour une tournée lucrative sur
Qui est le plus grand lutteur professionnel légitime à lutter aux États-Unis? How do
Sur Avril 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
J'ai décidé de commencer 2020 en utilisant deux exemples de lutte professionnelle pour expliquer pourquoi vous modifieriez un récit historique que vous avez écrit dans le passé. En écrivant l’histoire, vous êtes limité par les sources disponibles sur le sujet. Sources primaires comme les journaux, les documents officiels et les autobiographies sont très précieux. D'autres sources comme les journaux sont également bonnes, mais
Evan “Strangler” Lewis était un concurrent effrayant. Bien qu'il ne était pas un grand homme à cinq’09” et pesé 170 livres, Lewis’ maîtrise des soumissions a fait de lui un égal ou mieux de la plupart des lutteurs de son époque. Jack Carkeek était un lutteur formidable, mais un match avec Lewis presque fit retraite. Lewis’ réputation était fortement liée à sa crainte
Le même jour, Joe Stecher affrontait Stanislaus Zbyszko pour la version reconnue du Championnat du monde de lutte poids lourd à St.. Louis, Ed “Strangler” Lewis challenged “Big” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. In April 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and
Jake Kilrain is best known as the last and toughest challenger to John L. Sullivan in the last bare knuckle world championship fight. Despite Kilrain’s inability to beat John L. Sullivan, he had a successful career both before and after the bout with the mighty Sullivan. Fighting for 10 more years in gloved bouts, Kilrain was mostly successful but on
Sur Mars 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
Sur Juillet 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Même si Georges Carpentier
Sur Avril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Strangler” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. They would cooperate in a number of worked or “prearranged” matches. Lewis in fact dropped his American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek Zbyszko in 1917. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling
Frank J. Quinn, a local St. Louis attorney, served as the manager for professional wrestlers George Baptise, Charley Olson and Fred Beell. Originally an admirer of George Baptiste, who was a legend in the St. Louis neighborhood around Cook and Vandeventer Avenues. Baptiste would employ Quinn as his manger and later attorney for his tent and awning company. During his
Sur Janvier 29, 1940, First National Pictures, the Warner Brothers “B” film company, released the spy thriller British Intelligence (1940). The film is set in Britain during World War I. Released almost two years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the film showed that Hollywood and probably most of the countries sympathies were with Britain and the Allies. While British
Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. Le plan de Rachmann pour créer Aberg se déroulait comme prévu après le coup d’envoi du tournoi