Choque: The Untold Story of Jiu-Jitsu in Brazil 1856-1949 (Volume 1) (70 page)

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135.
Diario de Noticias
13-12-31.

136.
A Noite
16-12-31.

137.
A Noite
16-12-31.

138.
Diario de Noticias
17-12-31.

139.
Diario de Noticias
27-12-31.

140.
Diario de Noticias
24-12-31.

141
A Noite
19-12-31.

142.
Jornal do Brasil
29-12-31 [“
quebrarei a resistencia de Omori, com a mesma facilidade com que vergo barras de ferro
”].

143.
A Noite
22-12-31;28-12-31 [“
não hava força capaz de me fazer desisti
”].

144.
A Noite
18-12-31 [“
Bolsa seja dado ao vencedor…. a victoria se verifique pela desistencia”
].

145.
A Noite
31-12-31;
Diario de Noticias
31-12-31.

146.
A Noite
22-12-31; 28-12-31.

147.
A Noite
31-12-31.

148.
Correio Paulistano
8-1-29.

149.
Diario de Noticias
26-8-31.

150. Dempsey 1934.

151. Dempsey fought at least three wrestlers in 1940, knocking all of them out. The last was Cowboy Luttrell on July 1. The outcome of a Dempsey versus Gracie fight would certainly have hinged on the Gracie representative’s ability to put the Manassa Mauler on the canvas and keep him there. We will never know, but a historical review of such mixed fights suggests that it could have gone either way.

 

.

 

Chapter 12

1932

 

1. Mandell 1984.

2.
A Noite
6-1-32;
Diario de Noticias
7-1-32.

3.
A Noite
5-1-32.

4.
A Noite
11-1-32.

5.
A Noite
13-1-32.

6.
A Noite
13-1-32 [“
Pela primeira vez, o box livre em competencia com o jiu-jitsu”
].

7.
Diario de Noticias
13-12-31.

8. Pierpaoli 2011.

9. Portugal’s record did not improve after the fight. Boxing data come from boxrec.com unless otherwise indicated.

10.
A Noite
15-1-32 [“
Já venceu, por knock-out, no Pará, um praticante do jiu-jitsu
”].

11.
Diario da Noite
15-1-32. Certainly the numbers were exaggerated, but few people in Brazil could claim to have more ring experience than Omori in 1932.

12.
Diario Carioca
14-1-32 [“
Poderiam ter sido escolhidos adversaries mais competentes, da parte do pugilismo, para represental-o, mas assim mesmo, sendo Crespo uma estrella completamente apagada tecnicamente e Portugal um insufficiente energicamente e mesmo falho de tecnica, temos fé que o box vencerá
”].

13.
Diario da Noite
16-1-32.

14. Dempsey had not been champion for six years (he lost the title to Gene Tunney by 10-round decision on
September 23, 1926) but was still the personification of boxing to many people.

15.
A Batalha
16-1-32 [“
Antonio Portugal é a pugilista experimentado, e que, além, do mais conhece, tambem, os segredos do jiu-jitsu
”].

16.
Diario da Noite
16-1-32.

17.
Diario de Noticias
15-1-32.

18.
Diario de Noticias
15-1-32. Baldi probably left something out of his story.

19.
Diario Carioca
15-1-32.

20.
Correia da Manhã
14, 15-1-32;
A Noite
14, 15-1-32.

21. Also described as Colyseu de Box.

22.
A Noite
18-1-32.

23.
Diario da Noite
18-1-32 [“
Mal o combate foi iniciado, Geo Omori, com uma tesoura da pernas, levou o portuguez ao tablado. Em seguir, com incrivel agilidade, Geo Omori levantou Crespo, atirando-o ao tablado. Completamente estonteado com os golpes que soffreu, Crespo pouco depois desistiu do combate, ao poder de violente chave de pernas que lhe applicou Geo Omori
”].

24.
Diario Carioca
17-1-32 [“
Aos 45 segundos Omori applica uma tesoura de pernas ao thorax e torção de pé, forçando Crespo a desistir….A’ 1 minuto e 45 segundos, Portugal soffre uma chave de pernas no pieto e torção de braço e desistiu
”].

25.
Correio da Manhã
19-1-32 [“
Tal como estava previsto, os dois fraquissimos pugilistas Tavares Crespo e Antonio Portugal foram facilmente vencidos pelos representantes do violento jogo japonez
”].

26.
Diario Nacional
16-1-32.

27.
Diario Nacional
23-1-32.

28.
Diario Nacional
31-1-32.

29.
Correio Paulistano
11-3-39.

30.
Diario de Noticias
2-2-32.

31.
Diario de Noticias
4-3-32.

32.
Diario Nacional
13-3-32. Gallos Cegos [blind-fold boxing] was described as “
boxeurs que se vão bater com os olhas vendados
”].

33.
Diario da Noite
26-1-32, reprinted 26-4-32. Rule 2 (concerning shoulder pinning) was “
um lutador será considerado vencido quando os seus dois hombres e os seus quadric hajam tocado o solo, com a condição, todavia, de que esta posição resulte de queda imposta pelo adversario.”
Rule 8 (concerning voluntarily lying on one’s back) was [“
quando um lutador deixa que as suas espaduas e seus quadric toquem o solo, mas se o fez com a intenção de aassim tombar o adversario, não se considerado vencido
”].

34.
Diario da Noite
12-3-32 [“
Os recursos do jiu-jitsu e da luta livre são identicos. Não posso negar que e difficel prever um desfecho
”].

35.
A Noite
14-3-32.
Diario da Noite
, 14-3-3;
Diario Nacional
, 13-3-32.

36.
Diario de Noticias
15-3-32.

37.
A Noite
16-3-32.

38.
A Noite
22-3-32.

39.
A Noite
29-3-32.

40.
Diario de Noticias
22-4-32.

41.
Diario Carioca
6-4-32.

42. Reila Gracie (2008) shows that, at most, Carlos could have taken
lessons from Koma for one year. The four people in the best position to judge―George, Helio, Geo Omori, and Donato Pires, didn’t seem to think that Carlos had a high level of either technique or knowledge. (Obviously, they were not completely unbiased). Reila also suggests that Carlos trained with another Koma student Jacyntho Ferro, but that also is unproven. Ferro was later acclaimed (by the press, not by Koma) as Koma’s best student but that was long after Carlos left Belém.

43.
Diario de Noticias
21-7-32.

44.
Diario de Noticias
5-4-32.

45.
Diario de Noticias
5-4-32. Akitaro Ono was a Kodokan classmate and colleague of Maeda Mitsuyo (Conde Koma).

46.
Diario de Noticias
15-4-32.

47.
Diario de Noticias
19-4-32.

48.
Diario Carioca
27-4-32;
Diario de Noticias
28-4-32.

49.
Corrieo da Manhã
28-4-32.

50. As reported in
Folha da Manhã
14-6-32.

51.
Diario Carioca
1-5-32.

52.
A Noite
24-2-32.

53.
A Noite
15-4-32;
Diario de Noticias
6-5-32.

54.
A Noite
27-4-32.

55.
Diario de Noticias
17-10-32.

56.
A Noite
4-5-32 [“
Dentinho, logo de inicio, mostrou não possuir habilidade para pôr á prova a efficiencia do meio de defesa japonez. Indo ao tapete logo no primeiro round. Salvando-o o final do mesmo. No Segundo round, o professor Oswaldo Gracie applicou uma chave de braço em Dentinho, que não resistindo, caiu, vencido nitidamente. A numerosa platéa não se mostrou satisfeita por ver no o adversario do professor Gracie pouca tendencia para a capoeiragem
“] (
A Batalha
5-5-32;
Diario de Noticias
6-5-32).

57.
A Noite
28-5-32.

58
. Diario de Noticias
18-3-32.

59.
Diario de Noticias
10-6-32. Manoel Rufino was described as the “vanquisher of Carlos Gracie [“
vencedor de Carlos Gracie
”]. After his three year campaign of self-promotion, including claims of being undefeated and unbeatable, this must have bothered a man with an ego the size of Carlos Gracie’s.

60.
Diario de Noticias
19-6-32.

61.
Correio d S. Paulo
22-6-32

62.
Correio da Manhã
28-6-32. An “academic match” was a demonstration.

63.
Diario de Noticias
8-7-32.

64.
Diario de Noticias
9-7-32.

65.
Diario de Noticias
12-7-32.

66.
Diario de Noticias
14-7-32. Roberto Coelho was jiu-jitsu student of Jose Barbosa.

67.
Correio da Manhã
17-7-32. None of the reports included photographs so it is unclear what a “
gravata americana
” was, other than some type of choke or headlock.

68.
Diario de Noticias
. 17-7-32;
Diario da Noite
19-7-32.

69.
Diario de Noticias
21-7-32.

70.
Diario de Noticias
25-7-32.

71. Carlos may have had a match of some sort with someone possibly named “Samuel” but according to his brother George, “Samuel” was untrained tough guy who Carlos was unable to defeat. Reila Gracie (2008, pp. 70-73) describes this match in great detail, from Carlos’s perspective, but does not provide a source for her information, which seems to be Carlos himself.

72.
Diario da Noite
27-7-32.

73. Omori’s academy had many young Brazilian students who were eager to learn the exciting and very useful Japanese fight” [“
Frequentada por muitas jovens brasileiros, que ali vão em buscade conhecimentos technicos da emocianante e utilissima luta nipponico
”] (
Diario de Noticias
20-7-32).

74.
Diario de Noticias
24-7-32.

75.
Diario de Noticias
3-8-32 [“
uma das pelejas mais renhidas dos nossos annaes sportivos
”].

76. First letter of name was illegible, but Omori says that he was from
Fukuoka. He probably was Samura Kaichiro.

77.
Diario de Noticas
23-8-32.

78.
Diario de Noticias
29-7-32. [“
Para que Geo Omori me venca terá que conseguir o knock-out, poise eu não desisterei
”].

79.
Diario de Noticias
22-8-32.

80.
Diario de Noticias
5-8-32;
Diario de Noticias
1-9-32.

81.
A Noite
26-8-32.

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