Istoricul sporturilor de luptă și artist marțial
Aprilie 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Octombrie 20, 1916, Ad Santel, un „prostituat” remarcat sau un luptător priceput, met Taro
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In January 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Strangler” Lewis was a better wrestler than the late Frank Gotch. Santel trained with both Gotch and Lewis, so Santel did have an insider’s knowledge. Was he right though? Gotch was the last undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Gotch won the title by defeating the great Georg Hackenschmidt.
Paul Pons a fost greco-romane Lupta campion al Franței în 1890. El a câștigat un turneu la Folies Bergeres-înainte de a câștiga un turneu în Rusia în 1898. Aceste victorii i-au permis să revendice Campionatul Mondial de lupte greco-romane. Pons profitat de această notorietate prin deschiderea o sală de gimnastică pentru a luptători de tren și de oameni puternici. Pons’ victoria a fost deosebit de remarcabilă din cauza
În 1934, Charles Arthur “Băiat drăguț” Floyd și-a încheiat cariera criminală într-un Liverpool de Est, Câmp de porumb din Ohio după o încăierare cu agenți FBI și ofițeri locali de aplicare a legii. Totuși, in decembrie 1925, el era numărul deţinutului 29078 la Penitenciarul din Missouri. Floyd, în vârstă de 21 de ani, tocmai fusese condamnat pentru că a jefuit sediul principal al companiei Kroeger Grocery and Baking.
Octombrie 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, care a ucis
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures released Appointment with Danger (affiliate link) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the United
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Decembrie 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. După
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
In late 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Agricultor” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Totuși, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. De 1902, George