Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
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Vem är den största legitima professionella brottaren att brottas i USA? Hur gör
Rarely does one fundamentally alter their profession but Stanislaus Zbyszko did just that on April
Tom Hyer vann amerikanska Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i 1841. Som de flesta prismästare
En 122-årig tegelhus dominerar gatubilden i hörnet av Whittier Street och Cook Avenue i St. Louis, Missouri. Byggare uppfördes den 2378 kvadratmeter stort hus i 1892. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. I dag, 4200 Cook is
In his first time playing the role of Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond, John Howard plays the captain desperately trying to rescue his kidnapped fiancé’. Paramount Pictures released Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (affiliate länk) på September 24, 1937. Prior to John Howard taking over the role, Ronald Coleman and Ralph Richardson both played the fictional British hero. Filmen börjar med
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, eller 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Missouri history. Medan St. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi River, the World’s Fair put it on the international map. While the fair would bring notoriety, tourists and increased revenue to the city,
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mars 17, 1905, St. Louis sports fans were treated to a special match between local professional wrestler George Baptiste and traveling Japanese jujitsu practitioner Arata Suzuki. Baptiste delighted local fans by quickly defeating Suzuki in two straight falls. George Baptiste was a professional wrestler and all-around athlete, whose powerful swimming saved many St. Louisans from drowning
På fredag, Oktober 14, och lördag, Oktober 15, 1904, 42 brottare i 7 viktklasser möttes i de första olympiska spelen ifrågasatta i freestyle brottning metoden. Tidigare OS bestreds i grekisk-romersk stil i brottning. Den 1904 Sommar-OS hölls i samband med 1904 Världsutställningen i St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Chester Gould skapade Dick Tracy komiska remsan i 1931. Ursprungligen publicerat genom Detroit Metro, remsan flyttade till Chicago Tribune där det gjorde papper och Gould rika genom syndikering. Det var bara en tidsfråga innan Dick Tracy gjorde sin debut på vita duken. Ralph Byrd spelade Dick Tracy i fyra 15 chapter serials
På December 23, 1903, Frank Gotch traveled to Bellingham, Washington to take on a 6’05”, 215 pound Native American wrestler from Montana. Wrestling fans in the area considered Chief Two Feathers to be unbeatable. Frank Gotch was not impressed with his reputation but he gave Gotch the most uncomfortable 15 minutes of his young career. Chief Two Feathers entered the
På mars 19, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures released the second film starring the Old Time Radio comedy team Lum and Abner. The Bashful Bachelor (1942) (affiliate länk) starred Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody, the owners of the Jot’Em Down Store in Arkansas. I denna film, longtime bachelor Lum Edwards wants to become a hero
John L. Sullivan hade dominerat prisringen under sin karriär. Besitter ett register över 40 vinner, inga förluster och två oavgjorda, “The Boston Strong Boy” ansågs oövervinnerliga. Sullivan vann VM i 1882 och förpackat alla utmanare kulminerade med Fight av artonhundratalet med Jake Kilrain. Efter att ha besegrat Kilrain i denna episka bout, John L.
På onsdag, Maj 9, 1900, the second day of St. Louis Streetcar Strike, a stray bullet killed Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, a Spanish-American War veteran, was watching a strike rally at the corner of Finney and N. Taylor Avenue. During the rally, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a