Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
På April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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På Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, en noterad "fnask" eller skicklig submission wrestler, met Taro
Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
I kampsporter, en bra stor man slår vanligtvis en bra liten man. Om du är bra, du kan ofta kompensera för stora storleksskillnader. Edwin Bibby blev bara 5’04” och vägs 160 pund men besegrade många större brottare under sin professionella brottningskarriär. Bibby besegrade många brottare inklusive den gigantiska tyska brottaren William Heygster. Edwin Bibby kunde
På December 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. De män tog $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
På Augusti 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. Three figures exited the train. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Jack” Shea, who killed St. Louis Police Officer Patrick Doran on November 7, 1881. The gaunt and sickly Shea was no longer the young thug, who executed Doran during a chase after
Johnny Reagan var en viktig fighter i St. Louis boxningsscen under det första decenniet av 1900-talet. Ursprungligen från Brooklyn, Reagan flyttade till St. Louis ska träna under Jack McKenna. McKenna baserade sin operation från St. Louis, där hans fighter främst stred vid St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan var en stigande bantamviktare på den tiden
När “Den ryska Lion” George Hackenschmidt toured America in 1905, he left the country unimpressed by the state of American wrestling. The current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, känd som “Hack” to much of the wrestling public, toured several cities in an attempt to arrange a match with American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Tom Jenkins. Hackenschmidt won the world title in Greco-Roman
On a chilly night, Januari 9, 1915, Sgt. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Sgt. Gibbons walked towards the Wabash Railroad’s Delmar Station, which was in complete darkness. Gibbons kneeled and wrapped his nightstick on the platform to signal any nearby beat officers to report to him. Patrolman Arthur J. Saxy heard the night
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 år. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
Den kraftfulla William Muldoon ansågs oövervinnerlig som grekisk-romersk World Wrestling Champion. Endast en man utmanade Muldoon på allvar under hans dominerande regeringstid. Den 165 pund tunga Clarence Whistler gav Muldoon konsekvent sina tuffaste utmaningar. Muldoon och Whistler träffades på torsdagen, November 1, 1883 i San Francisco, Kalifornien i en av sina flera matcher. William Muldoon var nästan ett huvud längre och vägde
Charlie Chan på vaxmuseum (1940) starring Sidney Toler som Charlie Chan är min favorit Charlie Chan-film. Charlie Chan söker efter en mördare i ett vax museum. Vaxet museum är en front för en plastikkirurg, som ändrar utseendet på efterlysta brottslingar till ett pris. Kirurgen Dr. Kräm, played by C. Henry Gordon, also
Fred Beell developed a reputation in the early 20th Century as a powerful and dangerous wrestler. His reputation was not built by his 1903 campaign. Beell suffered as many high-profile defeats as victories. Beell started well in April 1903, when he defeated St. Paul AAU Wrestling Champion James McAuley. McAuley won the first fall in 22 minuter. Beell vann