Historiador dels esports de combat i artista marcial
A l'abril 13, 1936, Ed “Strangler” Lewis wrestled his final legitimate contest with Lee Wykoff
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A l'octubre 20, 1916, Ad Santel, un destacat "puta" o lluitador de presentació hàbil, met Taro
Qui és el millor lluitador professional legítim per lluitar als Estats Units?? Com fer
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. Però, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, La manera de viure en Salut i Força (affiliate link) 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 anys fins a perdre la seva
Sunday morning, Agost 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 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Muldoon, un ex detectiu de la ciutat de Nova York, va guanyar el Campionat Mundial de Lluita grecoromana en derrotar Thiebaud Bauer. Muldoon va regnar durant deu anys abans de retirar-se com campió. Després de retirar-, va començar a guanyar-se la vida com un entrenador personal. Muldoon trained wrestlers but really came to prominence after getting a woefully out of shape John L. Sullivan fit for his
On Monday evening, Juliol 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, que
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Sotavento” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Semental”, 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. Avi
Tom Hyer va guanyar el Campionat Americà Bare Knuckle boxa professional a 1841. Igual que la majoria dels campions de boxa professional del segle XIX, ell no va lluitar amb molta freqüència. Hyer normalment pagava les seves factures com un pinxo dels partits polítics a Nova York. Originalment, Hyer va emprar el seu talent per als Whigs, però canviaria de lleialtat al “Know Nothing Party” amb el seu amic William
Al juny 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, Califòrnia. When the wrestlers stripped to their trunks for the match, it was obvious Muldoon’s power would prove a formidable challenge to Rigal. Muldoon stood around 6 feet tall and weighed between 193 i 210 pounds during his career.