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
Cine este cel mai mare luptător profesionist legitim care a luptat în Statele Unite? Cum
Henry Moses Dufur a deținut campionul mondial la lupte cu guler și cot în categoria grea în anii 1870.. De 1855, Dufur s-a retras din luptele profesionale pentru a-și urma profesia de croitor de îmbrăcăminte cu normă întreagă. Chiar și în timpul carierei sale de lupte, Dufur a lucrat ca croitor. Dufur i-a spus corespondentului de la The Boston Globe că s-a născut în Richford, Vermont în iunie 5, 1943. Această dată 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
În secolul 19, 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
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