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November 19, 1935, professional wrestler Ray Steele met professional boxer Kingfish Levinsky in a mixed wresting versus boxing bout. The Missouri State Athletic Commission created special rules for the match. The commissioners ruled the bout would consist of three-minute rounds like a boxing match. The commissioners allowed Levinsky to punch even if he was on the mat. Steele could
Jeg ble nylig beæret over å være gjest på The Martial Culture Podcast. Trener Rene Driefuss og Matt Peters var utmerkede verter. Jeg nøt virkelig tiden min på podcasten deres. Vi snakket om en av bøkene mine, Gotch vs. Hackenschmidt: Kampene som skapte og ødela spesielt legitim amerikansk profesjonell bryting. However, vi snakket generelt om historien
Fra sent 1921 til 1923, John Contos promoterte profesjonell bryting i St. Louis, Missouri. However, Contos bestemte seg for å forlate opprykk for å fokusere på å styre karrieren til stjernespiren Dan Kolov. Før du forlater St. Louis, Contos solgte kampanjen til Tom Packs, hans nevø og assistent i opprykket. Pakker’ første kort var planlagt til fredag, Januar 4, 1924.
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 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
En annonse ble skrevet ut i januar 16, 1921 utgave av St. Louis Post-Dispatch annonserer et postordrekurs på Jujitsu fra Capt. Allan Smith. Capt. Smith ble opprinnelig født i Skottland, men var fascinert av demonstrasjoner av japansk Jujitsu (faktisk Judo) så han i England. Smith reiste til Japan med et selskap og lærte at Judo nådde 1. grad
William Muldoon was the reigning World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion and a noted physical culturist, when Muldoon was engaged by John L. Sullivan’s backers to get their fighter in shape. Sullivan was the reigning World Heavyweight Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Champion. He signed an agreement to meet his toughest challenger, Jake Kilrain, in July 1889. Sullivan admitted he was in bad shape,
Yukio Tani arrived in England at the turn of the 20th Century. Tani spread ju-jitsu by taking part in challenge matches against professional wrestlers. As part of these challenge matches, Tani demonstrated ju-jitsu. Through the success of these challenges and demonstrations, Tani saw many students sign up to train with him. One of Tani’s best English students used the stage
With Choque, Vol. 2 (Amazon-tilknyttet lenke), Roberto Pedreira picks up the story of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in what he considers its heyday in Brazil, 1950 – 1960. Besides Carlos and Helio Gracie, several other academies, such as Oswaldo Fadda’s, were also thriving. Judo was gaining in popularity but had not overcome Jiu-Jitsu in popularity. Vale Tudo matches were at the height
Jeg leste nylig Choque: Den ufortalte historien om Jiu-Jitsu i Brasil, Volum 1 av Roberto Pedreira (Amazon-tilknyttet lenke), som forteller en alternativ historie om BJJs begynnelse enn vi har blitt fortalt av i forskjellige intervjuer med medlemmer av Gracie-familien. “Sjokk” oversetter til “sjokkerende” på brasiliansk portugisisk. While Pedreira exhaustively researches and cites primary sources, mostly Brazilian newspapers,
Ad Santel gained his reputation as a dangerous catch wrestler from his frequent bouts with judoka from Japan during the 1910s and a story from the second George Hackenschmidt training camp for the Frank Gotch rematch. According to legend, Frank Gotch paid Santel, a skilled submission wrestler, $5,000.00 to injure Hackenschmidt’s knee in training. Mens denne historien kan eller kan