Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Op April 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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Op Oktober 20, 1916, Ad Santel, 'n bekende "haker" of vaardige voorleggingstoeier, met Taro
Wie is die grootste wettige professionele stoeier om in die Verenigde State te stoei?? Hoe doen
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Egter, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt het sy minister van oorlog en voormalige goewerneur van die Filippyne gekies
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (Koste skakel) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 jaar totdat hy syne verloor het
Sunday morning, Augustus 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 namiddag. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In een van daardie vreemde toevallighede van die geskiedenis, die Streetcar Unie President Sherman C. Patterson is deur 'n unie masjinis vernoem Edward levenslustig gesteek nadat 'n salon meningsverskil. In 'n tyd toe 'n paar van sy teenstanders in die 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, 'n voormalige New York City speurder, het die Wêreld Grieks-Romeinse stoei kampioenskap deur die verslaan Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon geheers vir tien jaar voor sy aftrede as kampioen. Na sy aftrede, Hy het 'n lewe as 'n persoonlike afrigter te maak. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Julie 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, wat
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Grandpa
Tom Hyer het die Amerikaanse Kale Knuckle Prizefighting kampioenskap in 1841. Soos die meeste prizefighting kampioene van die Negentiende Eeu, hy het nie baie dikwels veg. Hyer normaalweg sy rekeninge betaal as 'n wetstoepasser vir politieke partye in New York. Oorspronklik, Hyer het sy talente vir die Whigs aangewend, maar sou trou na die “Weet niks Party” saam met sy vriend William
Op Junie 4, 1883, die Grieks-Romeinse wêreld swaargewig Wrestling Kampioen William Muldoon gekonfronteer geskoolde Franse stoeier Jules Rigal in San Francisco, Kalifornië. Wanneer die stoeiers gestroop tot hul koffers vir die wedstryd, was dit duidelik Muldoon se krag sal 'n formidabele uitdaging aan Rigal bewys. Muldoon staan om 6 meter hoog en weeg tussen 193 en 210 pounds during his career.