Fitz Dethrones Corbett in 1897

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Op Maart 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

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Caddock en W. Zbyszko stoei om te trek

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Earl Caddock het in die laat 1910's en vroeë 1920's 'n betreklik kort maar lang professionele stoeiloopbaan gehad. Maak sy professionele debuut in 1915 nadat hy drie AAU Nasionale titels in amateurstoei gewen het, Caddock het net professioneel gestoei tot 1922. Egter, hy sou as wêreldkampioen erken word nadat hy Joe Stecher in April verslaan het 1917. Caddock sou die titel terug verloor

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Chief Desmond Solves Cooper Killing

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On Thursday, Januarie 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, een van St. Louis’ rykste mans, besit residensiële vaste eiendom en ander bates ter waarde van 2 miljoen dollar. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Hy

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Dempsey KOs Carpentier

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Op Julie 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.” Even though Georges Carpentier

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The Bashful Bachelor (1942)

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Op Maart 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. In hierdie film (Koste skakel), jare lange vrygesel Lum Edwards wil 'n held word

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Wrestling Kampioen Drieë Boks

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Op Dinsdag, Januarie 19, 1909, Dr. Benjamin Roller, a Seattle physician and pro wrestler who was good enough to win the American Heavyweight Championship, inexplicably decided to try his hand at professional boxing. His opponent was friend and sparring partner, “Denver” Ed Martin, who would win the Colored World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Roller was a unique athlete

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Why I Studied the Martial Arts I Have

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Ons ingesluit vier of meer martial arts in ons akademie se kurrikulum. As ek kyk na hierdie kunste, Ek sien 'n duidelike rede dat ek elkeen bestudeer. Hierdie kuns dekking treffende, worstel, grond gevegte en 'n praktiese self-verdediging wapen, die rottang. Ek begin studeer Shotokan Karate in die val van 1994. I switched to Taekwondo with my nephew in the Spring of 1995. Taekwondo brought

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Eduard Mosblech (1884 – 1956)

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Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Dikwels geskryf as Edward maar uitgespreek soos om hulp en wyk saam te stel, Eduard was as unique as his name. Ek het gesukkel om baie oor hom te skryf, want die stories wat ek van hom gehoor het

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