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Aprilis, 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Octobris 20, 1916, Ad Santel, et attendendum "Hooker" vel peritus submission luctator, met Taro
Quis est legitimus luctator maximus luctandi in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae? Quomodo?
On March 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 had a relatively short but storied professional wrestling career in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Making his professional debut in 1915 after winning three AAU National titles in amateur wrestling, Caddock only wrestled professionally until 1922. Autem, he would be recognized as world champion after defeating Joe Stecher in April 1917. Caddock would lose the title back
Die Jovis, January 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, unus Sancti. Ludovicus’ ditissimi, possessores residentiales verus praedium et alia bona aestimantur 2 million pupa. Cooper vellet esse, cuius maxima in rebus sancti. Ludovicus. Et
In 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.” Etsi Georgius Carpentier
On March 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 hoc film (affiliate link), longtime caelibem Lum Edwards vult fieri fortis
Die martis, January 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
John Berg was a good enough wrestler to beat Martin “Agricola” 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 pondo. Berg missed weight by four pounds but won the match. Berg wrestled in
On January 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, accipit eum
We included four or more martial arts in our academy’s curriculum. When I look at these arts, I see a distinct reason that I studied each one. These arts cover striking, iniecta, ground fighting and a practical self-defense weapon, the cane. I started studying Shotokan karate in the Fall of 1994. I switched to Taekwondo with my nephew in the Spring of 1995. Taekwondo brought
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Ludovicus, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Saepe ut Edouardus scribitur, sed quasi collatis auxiliis et custodia pronuntiatur, Eduard was as unique as his name. Certavi cum multa scribere de eo quod fabulas quas de eo audivi