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När Wladek Zbyszko reste från USA till Brasilien för en lukrativ turné vidare
Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
På April 3, 1908, American Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch met World Wrestling Champion George Hackenschmidt
Sorakichi Matsuda originally trained in sumo wrestling. When Matsuda decided to become a catch-as-catch-can wrestler, he was forced to travel to the United States. Professional wrestling would not become popular in Japan until the middle of the Twentieth Century. Upon arriving in the United States in 1883, it took Matsuda a few months to secure a match. Han säkrade till slut
On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The Mars 3, 1946 upplagan av
Med Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon affiliate länk), Roberto Pedreira plockar upp historien om brasilianska Jiu-Jitsu i det han anser vara sin glansdag i Brasilien, 1950 – 1960. Förutom Carlos och Helio Gracie, flera andra akademier, som Oswaldo Fadda, blomstrade också. Judo blev allt populärare men hade inte övervunnit Jiu-Jitsu i popularitet. Vale Tudo-matcher var på höjden
This film (affiliate länk) var den första Sherlock Holmes-filmen med Basil Rathbone som Holmes. Sidney Lanfield riktade The Baskervilles hund (1939) för Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stjärnor som Dr. John Watson. Rathbone and Bruce would play Holmes and Watson in thirteen subsequent films, one more for Twentieth-Century Fox and twelve for Universal Pictures. Den här filmen är en
Faktiskt, Samuel Rachman, who promoted both the 1915 International Wrestling Tournament and Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Aleksander “Alex” Åberg, tried to lure retired World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch into the tournament. Rachman hoped to bolster Aberg’s claim as the successor to Gotch. Rachman offered Gotch $20,000 to wrestle Aberg in May 1915. Rachmans turnering skulle starta på onsdag
Martin “Farmer” Burns reportedly trained over 1,000 wrestlers in his career as America’s foremost wrestling trainer. Emellertid, Burns var en stor brottare i sin egen rätt. Before he retired to train wrestlers full-time, Burns vann Brottning Championship amerikanska heavyweight från Evan “Den strangleren” Lewis i 1895. Burns held the title for two years. I 1893, Burns var stilla
The Vampire Bat (1933) är en genre bock film starring Lionel Atwill. Skenbart, it is a horror film but is actually more of a mystery. It would fall into the “B” movie category, en kortfilm avsedd att vara en aptitretare för huvudfilmen på en dubbelräkning. Majestic Pictures produced the film, which was directed by Frank R.
No one can question that Stanislaus Zbyszko was a great wrestler. Han började brottas när den pro spelet var fortfarande en verklig konkurrens. Han fortsatte att vara framgångsrik efter matchen ändrades till bearbetade (prearranged) tändstickor. I själva verket, han deltog i en skjuttävling, when he legitimately defeated Big Wayne Munn for the title in 1925 genom att dubbelkorsa sina promotorer.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Emellertid, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
The Woman in Green (1945) is the ninth of twelve Sherlock Holmes produced by Universal Pictures. Basil Rathbone återvänder som Holmes i den elfte av fjorton varv som engelsmannen. The film is one of the few “B” series films, which could have been an “A” film. Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of several young London women. Efter de