Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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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
After several months of wrangling, Clarence Whistler met Duncan C. Ross on Monday, November 7, 1881 in a best three-out-of-five falls match. Two falls were to be conducted in catch-as-catch-can wrestling, which both men were considered adept at. Two falls were to be conducted in collar-and-elbow wrestling, which was a Ross speciality. The final fall would be conducted in Greco-Roman
Den spanska Cape Mystery (1935) är en anpassning av en av Ellery Queen-romanerna. Två kusiner, Frederic Dannay och Manfred Lee, som skrev ett antal deckare under pseudonymen titelteckenet. I denna film, Ellery drottningen tar en semester till Kalifornien med sin vän Domare Macklin. Naturligtvis, de är inte långt inne i sina
I 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
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935) is one of the five Sherlock Holmes films starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Director Leslie S. Hiscott adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear but added to the story to give Professor Moriarty and Col. Sebastian Moran roles in the story. A significant portion of the movie is the retelling of
På November 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
I januari 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 he 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 var grekisk-romersk brottning mästare i Frankrike på 1890-talet. Han vann en turnering i Folies-Bergères innan han vann en turnering i Ryssland 1898. Dessa segrar tillät honom att göra anspråk på det grekisk-romerska världsmästerskapet i brottning. Pons aktiveras på denna ryktbarhet genom att öppna ett gym för att träna brottare och starka män. Pons’ segern var särskilt anmärkningsvärd pga
I 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Emellertid, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
På Oktober 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, som dödade
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 släppte Appointment with Danger (affiliate länk) in London in 1950 men släppte den inte i USA