Povjesničar borilačkih sportova i borilački umjetnik
Travanj 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Prvog listopada 20, 1916, Ad Santel, poznata "kurva" ili vješti hrvač submissionom, met Taro
Tko je najveći legitimni profesionalni hrvač koji se hrva u Sjedinjenim Državama? Kako
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 godina, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
William Powell’s fifth turn as S.S. Van Dine’s detective Philo Vance may have been his best. The Kennel Murder Case (1933) finds Philo Vance trying to solve the murder of Archer Coe. Coe had many enemies but the greatest mystery for Vance is how Coe was murdered in a locked room. Vance je prisustvovao izložbi pasa s Coeom i njegovima
Na ožujka 17, 1897, current World Heavyweight Boxing Champion James J. Corbett entered the boxing ring at Carson City, Nevada. Corbett faced the challenge of former middleweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons. Corbett entered as the favorite enjoying both an almost twenty pound weight advantage and slick boxing skills. “Ruddy Robert” as Fitzsimmons was sometimes known won the World Middleweight Boxing Championship in
Earl Caddock imao je relativno kratku, ali poznatu profesionalnu hrvačku karijeru u kasnim 1910-im i ranim 1920-im. Svoj profesionalni debi u 1915 nakon što je osvojio tri AAU nacionalna naslova u amaterskom hrvanju, Caddock se profesionalno hrvao samo do 1922. Međutim, bit će priznat kao svjetski prvak nakon pobjede nad Joeom Stecherom u travnju 1917. Caddock bi izgubio naslov natrag
On Thursday, Siječanj 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, jedan od sv. Louis’ najbogatijih ljudi, posjedovane stambene nekretnine i druga imovina procijenjena na 2 Milijun dolara. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. On
On July 2, 1921 in Jersey City, New Jersey, reigning World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey met light heavyweight boxing king Georges Carpentier. Boxing fans flocked to event resulting in the first million dollar gate in boxing history. The match would prove the old boxing adage, “A good big man always beats a good little man.” Iako Georges Carpentier
Na ožujka 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. Stidljiv prvostupnik (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. U tom filmu (affiliate link), longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
U utorak, Siječanj 19, 1909, Doktor. Benjamin Roller, Seattle liječnik i pro hrvač koji je bio dovoljno dobar za pobjedu američki prvenstvo u teškoj kategoriji, neobjašnjivo odlučio okušati u profesionalnom boksu. Protivnik mu je bio prijatelj i sparing partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, tko će pobijediti obojeni svijet teškoj kategoriji boks prvenstvo. Doktor. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Seljak” Burns twice but was mostly thought of as a good lighter wrestler. Berg held the World Light Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in the late 1910s and competed for the Middleweight Title, which was contested at 158 funti. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg se hrvao
Siječnja 26, 1934, United Artists released Palooka (1934), a feature film based on the popular comic strip. Stuart Erwin plays Joe Palooka but Jimmy Durante steals the show as his manager Knobby Walsh. Joe Palooka is the son of former world boxing champion Pete Palooka. When Joe was a baby, his mother Mayme, played by Marjorie Rambeau, uzima ga