Historiador dels esports de combat i artista marcial
A l'abril 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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A l'octubre 20, 1916, Ad Santel, un destacat "puta" o lluitador de presentació hàbil, met Taro
Qui és el millor lluitador professional legítim per lluitar als Estats Units?? Com fer
Vaig decidir començar 2020 utilitzant dos exemples de lluita lliure professional per discutir per què canviaríeu un relat històric que vau escriure en el passat. En escriure la història, esteu limitat per les fonts disponibles sobre el tema. Fonts primàries com els diaris, els registres oficials i les autobiografies són molt valuosos. Altres fonts com els diaris també són bones, però
Republic Pictures produced many quality movie serials in the 1930s and 1940s. One of their finer offerings was Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), a twelve chapter serial (affiliate link) based on the popular comic book super hero. Captain Marvel is known as Shazam today. Billy Batson, played by Frank Coghlan, Jr, accompanies the Malcolm Expedition to Siam. While searching an
El mateix dia, Joe Stecher va lluitar contra Stanislaus Zbyszko per la versió reconeguda del Campionat Mundial de Lluita Pes Pesat a St.. Louis, I “Estrangulador” Lewis challenged “Gran” 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
A l'octubre 24, 1941, Monogram Pictures released Spooks Run Wild starring the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi. At this point in his career, Bela Lugosi was relegated to “B” cinema. He played in several films with the East Side Kids, which were all enjoyable if not exactly classic cinema. Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and Bobby Jordan play the leaders
Evan “Estrangulador” Lewis was a scary competitor. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 lliures, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire. Lewis’ reputation was strongly
A l'abril 7, 1914, 22-year-old Wladek Zbyszko met 22-year-old Ed “Estrangulador” Lewis would meet in the first of many matches between the two men. While they were supposed to be working the match, Lewis and Wladek Zbyszko struggled to work together. In the early 1920s, Lewis would drop his World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship to Wladek’s older brother Stanislaus Zbyszko. En
Frank J. Quinn, un local de St. Lluis advocat, va exercir com a gerent dels lluitadors professionals George Baptise, Charley Olson i Fred Beell. Originalment un admirador de George Baptiste, que era una llegenda al St. Barri de Louis al voltant de les avingudes Cook i Vandeventer. Baptiste contractaria a Quinn com a pessebre i més tard advocat de la seva empresa de tendes i tendals. During his
Al gener 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. Mentre que britànic
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. El pla de Rachmann per establir Aberg anava com estava previst després de l'inici del torneig