OFFICIALY HERZ......

4th Annual Halloween Costume Party
Saturday, October 30th 2010
Beginning 9:00 pm at My House
You MUST wear a costume/dress-up

No-holds-barred reportedly took place in the late 1880s when wrestlers representing a huge range of fighting styles, including various catch wrestling styles, Greco-Roman wrestling and many others met in tournaments and music-hall challenge matches throughout Europe. In the USA the first major encounter between a boxer and a wrestler in modern times took place in 1887 when John L. Sullivan, then heavyweight world boxing champion, entered the ring with his trainer, Greco-Roman wrestling champion William Muldoon, and was slammed to the mat in two minutes. The next publicized encounter occurred in the late 1890s when future heavyweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons took on European Greco-Roman wrestling champion Ernest Roeber. Reportedly, Roeber suffered a fractured cheekbone in this bout, but was able to get Fitzsimmons down, where he applied an armlock and made the boxer submit.

Another early example of mixed martial arts combat was the martial art of Bartitsu, founded in London in 1899, which was the first martial art known to have combined Asian and European fighting styles, and which saw MMA-style contests throughout England, pitting European and Japanese champions against representatives of various European wrestling styles.

Mixed style contests such as boxing vs. Jiu-Jitsu were popular entertainment throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. In Japan these contests were known as merikan, from the Japanese slang for "American [fighting]". Merikan contests were fought under a variety of rules including points decision, best of three throws or knockdowns, and victory via knockout or submission.

In 1936, heavyweight boxing contender Kingfish Levinsky and veteran professional wrestler Ray Steele competed in a mixed match, which Steele won in 35 seconds.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?????? i LOVE YOU BABY!

I just found out that one of my "projects" made it into The New York Times. While I was down in New Orleans spending time with my mother during her cancer battle earlier this year, I took it upon myself to clean up one block of the Bywater-Marigny area (right outside of the French Quarter) in NOLA where we lived.

The New York Times obviously thought I did a good job because they picked that block to photograph as the residential example of the Bywater neighborhood. Pretty neat. It never crossed my mind that my "yardwork" would end up helping to exemplify "In New Orleans, New Life by the River". In the photo, ours is the green house.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/06/27/travel/20100727-surfacing-7.html

 

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awl baby that comment was really sweet...i'm sorry being a grumpy butt :) love you!

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