Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
En abril 13, 1936, Ed "Strangler" Lewis loitou o seu último concurso con Lee Wykoff
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En outubro 20, 1916, Ad Santel, un destacado "prostituta" ou loitador de submisión hábil, Met Taro
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Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis Departamento de Policía. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready
Frank Gotch holds the title of America’s greatest legitimate professional wrestler. Gotch competed in mostly legitimate contests with a few pre-arranged or “Traballou” matches thrown in the mix. Por 1904 ou 1905, no one could really beat Gotch unless he allowed it. In the early years of his career, Gotch was not so dominant. He dropped matches to his mentor,
O luns, Maio 30, 1892, the great Peter Jackson boxed a gloved bout with former protégé Frank Slavin. Both men lived and fought in Australia, although fan interest led Jackson to tour the world to take advantage of the financial opportunities in the United States and England. As in Australia, Jackson often found white boxers unwilling to fight him. Few
St. Louis, no inicio do século 20, tiña unha escena de boxeo profesional destacado. Abe Attell, Aínda nacido en San Francisco, baseouse en St. Louis. On February 1, 1904, Attell defendeu o seu Campionato Mundial de Boxeo peso pena contra o rival frecuente Harry Forbes. Forbes tamén foi un regular no St. escena de boxeo Louis. Forbes derrotado Danny Dougherty ao
Jim Londos rose through the ranks of professional wrestling to become the biggest box office star of not only the 1930s but of all-time. Porén, if Londos had not come to St. Louis in the early 1920s, the story could have been quite different. Londos learned catch-as-catch-can wrestling while Londos performed as a strong man in the carnival circuit during
Sam Langford é considerado un dos máis grandes loitadores pound for pound de todos os tempos. Nacido en marzo 4, 1883 en Weymouth caídas, Nova Scotia, é considerado o maior pugilista canadense de todos os tempos. A súa carreira de loitador se estendía desde 1900 para 1926. Langford only stood 5 feet six and half inches tall and weighed 185 pounds at his heaviest. El
En outubro 20, 1906, Fred Beell proved dynamite comes in small packages. Beell, light heavyweight wrestling champion, defeated former American heavyweight champion Dan McLeod. Beell parlayed an active 1906 into defeats of former American Heavyweight Champion Dan McLeod and current American Heavyweight Champion Frank Gotch. Beell won the American Middleweight (Light Heavyweight) Championship but remained out of the spotlight until
En novembro 7, 1908, Charles Olson coñeceu “Americus” Gus Schonlein para o Campionato Mundial de Loita Peso Lixeiro. O partido resultou tan emocionante como os observadores sospeitaban que sería, pero acabou en polémica. Olson quedou 6’01” pero só pesaba 170 libras. Max Flaskamp naceu en Krefeld, Renania do Norte-Westfalia en 1879, he took the name Charles or Charley Olson
Giovanni Raicevich stood only 5’07” tall but weighed a muscular 220 libras. Raicevich carried pro bodybuilder type muscle 50 years before the steroid era. Porén, when it came to wrestling, Raicevich’s skill set was not quite as developed as his physique. Raicevich was one of many foreign wrestlers, quen viaxou a América para enfrontarse a Frank Gotch despois de derrotalo
Na noite de Nadal 1911, Stanislaus Zbyszko coñeceu a Giovanni Raicievich nun combate de loita libre moi esperado.. Zbyszko, que estaba facendo campaña para unha revancha co campión mundial de loita libre de peso pesado Frank Gotch, acordou botar a Raicevich 3 veces en 90 minutos ou ser declarado perdedor. Cando os homes entraron no famoso Madison Square Garden da cidade de Nova York, Zbyszko foi claramente o