Ahli Sejarah Sukan Pertempuran dan Seniman Mempertahankan Diri
Films and television shows based on combat sports such as boxing, wrestling, or martial arts or starring combat sports athletes.
Baru-baru ini saya menemui klip tiga minit di YouTube, yang termasuk dua daripada Jim Londos’ perlawanan dari tahun 1930-an. Dalam perlawanan pertama, Londos bergelut dengan Abe Coleman. Dalam perlawanan kedua, Londos bergelut perlawanan gaya campuran dengan Oki Shikina, yang dilatih oleh Taro Miyake, tali pinggang hitam Judo dan ahli gusti profesional. Londos adalah bintang box office terbesar
Pada November 18, 1938, bekas juara gusti dunia Jim Londos bergelut dengan juara dunia semasa Bronko Nagurski, bekas pemain bola sepak yang hebat untuk Chicago Bears. Lelaki itu bergelut di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania untuk kejohanan gusti dunia versi Nagurski. Anda boleh melihat perlawanan selama 14 minit itu secara keseluruhannya di YouTube. Apabila saya melihat perlawanan itu buat kali pertama, 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, April
At nearly 70 tahun, Stanislaus Zbyszko made his film debut in Night and the City (1950). Billed as Gregorious, a retired wrestler and the father of London’s wrestling promoter, Zbyszko displayed his wrestling skills, even at his advanced age, in the film’s signature scene. The movie begins with a man chasing 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. Malang, 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, on June 8, 1906 but spent most of his adult life in St. Louis, Missouri. 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
Ed “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. Dalam 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 membawa Dick Tracy watak jalur komik untuk skrin besar pada Disember 1, 1945. Walaupun filem itu pastinya “B” filem bertujuan untuk menjadi yang pertama ke atas bil berganda, ia masih akan menjadi kepentingan kepada ramai peminat jalur komik popular. Chester Gould created the strip in October 1931 for the Detroit
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, takes him