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
Quen é o maior loitador profesional lexítimo para loitar nos Estados Unidos? Como
Henry Moses Dufur ocupou o campión mundial de loita de colar e cóbado de peso pesado durante a década de 1870.. Por 1855, Dufur retirouse da loita profesional para exercer a súa profesión a tempo completo de xastre de roupa. Mesmo durante a súa carreira de loita libre, Dufur traballaba de xastre. Dufur díxolle ao correspondente de The Boston Globe que naceu en Richford, Vermont en xuño 5, 1943. Esta data de
In December 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
No século XIX, most states banned bare-knuckled prizefighting and professional gloved boxing. Police often arrested fighter, managers, and promoters to stop prizefighting. A unique aspect of geography turned St. Louis into an ideal fight venue to get around the authorities’s activity to stop professional prizefighting. In the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, the river’s current created a handful
En xaneiro de 1921, Ad Santel started a minor controversy by claiming Ed “Estrangulador” 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 foi o campión de wrestling greco-romano de Francia na década de 1890. El venceu un torneo no Folies Bergere, antes de gañar un torneo en Rusia 1898. Estas vitorias permitiulle acadar o Campionato Mundial de Loita Grecorromana. Pons capitalizou esta notoriedade a través da apertura dunha academia para loitadores de tren e homes fortes. Pons’ a vitoria foi especialmente notable por mor de
En 1934, Charles Arthur “Neno guapo” Floyd rematou a súa carreira criminal nun Liverpool Leste, Ohio campo de millo tras un tiroteo con axentes do FBI e policías locais. Porén, en decembro 1925, el era o número preso 29078 no Missouri Penitenciaria. The 21-year-old Floyd acabara de ser condenado por roubar a oficina principal Kroeger Grocery e Baking Company
En outubro 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, que matou
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 lanzou Appointment with Danger (enlace de afiliado) in London in 1950 pero non o lanzou nos Estados Unidos
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
En decembro de 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