Combat Sports Historian at Martial Artist
Films and television shows based on combat sports such as boxing, wrestling, or martial arts or starring combat sports athletes.
I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, na kinabibilangan ng dalawa sa Jim Londos’ mga laban mula 1930s. Sa unang laban, Nakipagbuno ang Londos kay Abe Coleman. Sa ikalawang laban, Nakipagbuno ang Londos ng magkahalong istilo ng tugma sa Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, ang Judo black belt at professional wrestler. Londos was the biggest box office star
Noong Nobyembre 18, 1938, former world wrestling champion Jim Londos wrestled current world champion Bronko Nagurski, the great former football player for the Chicago Bears. The men wrestled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Nagurski’s version of the world wrestling championship. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube. When I viewed the match for the first time, several
Born Norman Edward Wescoatt in Hawaii on August 2, 1911, “Rusty” Wescoatt played football for the University of Hawaii before making his professional wrestling debut in Hawaii during 1933. Wescoatt was also a swimming champion. Wescoatt initially made more news for his swimming than his wrestling when he traveled to the continental United States in 1935. On Easter Sunday, Abril
Sa halos 70 taong gulang, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Sinisingil bilang Gregorious, isang retiradong wrestler at ang ama ng wrestling promoter ng London, Ipinakita ni Zbyszko ang kanyang kakayahan sa pakikipagbuno, kahit na sa kanyang katandaan, sa signature scene ng pelikula. Nagsimula ang pelikula sa isang lalaking humahabol kay Harry Fabian, a London hustler always looking
Joe Stecher capturing the world wrestling championship from Earl Caddock is the oldest professional wrestling film in existence. Tragically, promoters filmed the biggest matches of the 1910s and 1920s including the second Frank Gotch-Georg Hackenshmidt match, but they rotted in storage areas. Camera operators filmed Ed “Strangler” Lewis vs. Wayne “Big” Munn, Stecher vs. Stanislaus Zbyszko, and the reunification match
Willard “Wild Bill” Longson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, sa Hunyo 8, 1906 but spent most of his adult life in St. Louis, Ilog ng Misuri. After beginning his career as a professional wrestler in 1931, Longson found himself working for Tom Packs in St. Louis. He never really left as it would be his home base for the remainder
At “Strangler” Lewis is one of the top two American professional wrestlers of all-time. While Lewis was a legitimate submission wrestler, who could beat anyone in a wrestling contest, he worked almost exclusively in prearranged exhibition matches. Sa 1929, he took part in a match with professional football player turned wrestler, Gus Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg was on the Providence Steam Roller,
Monogram Pictures released So’s Your Aunt Emma! (1942) on April 17, 1942. Zasu Pitts stars as Aunt Emma Bates. In her youth, Aunt Emma was engaged to up-and-coming professional fighter Jim O’Banion. Her sister didn’t approve of the match, so they sent her on a trip to break up the couple. Aunt Emma regretted it and starts following the career
RKO Pictures nagdala ng Dick Tracy comic strip ng character sa malaking screen sa Disyembre 1, 1945. Habang ang pelikula ay talagang isang “B” nilalayong film na maging unang sa double kuwenta, ito pa rin maaaring naging ng interes sa maraming mga tagahanga ng mga sikat na comic strip. Chester Gould created the strip in October 1931 for the Detroit
Sa Enero 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, takes him