Grappling/Fighting/BJJ Collectibles

Underground BJJ Ground
1

Anyone else into collecting grappling or BJJ related significant items? I wanted to share some of mine:

1909 Ogden pugilists and wrestlers cards of Frank Gotch, George Hackenschmidt and Stanislaus Zbysco

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/A3342151-3038-4176-A384-35CB4800FF48_zpsjsxug0yn.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/1A277891-FD06-4B73-BAEC-F61C21E98DCF_zps99pwqyx6.jpg

1888 Goodwin champions William Muldoon and a 1911 WD & HO Wills Jiu Jitsu card

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/65B006AD-A840-4465-98AC-0676220A2DC8_zpsgu08v48o.jpg

1887 Allen and ginter Jake Kilrain, 1908 Felix Potin cards of Theodore Roosevelt and Jiu Jitsu player Higashi

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/C5F71655-686C-4BBC-A256-432EE9999511_zpsx617bvxz.jpg

1888 Allen and Ginter John L Sullivan, 1910 Jack Johnson and 1920 Jack Dempsey

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/BD7613A4-91D4-4408-99ED-37ED538F6622_zpsjf75eutg.jpg

1904 first editions of Jiu Jitsu Combat Tricks and Japanese Physical Training by Hancock. Also, 1904 first edition of Jiu Jitsu the Japanese Method of Attack and Self Defense by Capt Skinner

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/4A3CD7CC-5B46-4AF7-9D8C-05B5BAA3A711_zpsauikn36i.jpg

1913 edition of Wrestling by Frank Gotch and 1923 edition of the Science of Wrestling and Art of Jiu Jitsu by Liederman

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/D7F11816-3FD9-4E08-8A77-EAE83D31F122_zps5iht4nmo.jpg

1976 bronze belt buckle made for Gene Labell given to me by Gokor almost 20 years ago

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/91390D34-2C60-4A03-AA3D-94EEB7923F07_zpsxyhyg41f.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/9B44F1B2-36DE-45EA-8EC1-1C0C29316038_zps11ohef5o.jpg

Rickson and Royce action figures

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/37FA9678-D52C-4F39-8D9D-19D34CB3356A_zpska3qpcqd.jpg

1987 inside kung fu which I think is the first of Rorions magazine propaganda train and the 1989 playboy setting in motion he development of the UFC.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k266/joejitsumd/47837F01-8C4B-4180-B3B5-914C478E4A80_zpsbewkxw9e.jpg

2

COOL!

I love reading old books like those, even though somettiems they're kinda goofy. Always someething to learn here and there. The belt buckle is AWESOME!

3

4

5

Thanks chip! Phone Post 3.0

6

no problem.  My kid collects some stuf, mostly vintage wrestling shoes, but he's got a few cards he picked up from the wrestling museum in Iowa last season.  Ill take pictures and post.

And ive got a copy of Thesz's book Hooker thats out of print.  

7

Very awesome. Thanks for sharing Phone Post 3.0

8

My kids stuff.  The only card he had was Glenn Brand, gold medalist.  Not sure if related to Tom and Terry

 

 

Singlet signed by a bunch of college wrestlers, Kyle Dake on there somewhere.  Also world Champion Sammy Henson.  My kid wrestles Sammy's kid at Nationals a couple times.  Their 1 and 1 right now, always a close match.

Signed Headgear from the heavy weight finalists at the 2013 southern scuffle.  Dom Bradley and Tony Nelson.  Nelson lost that day but went on to win the national championship a few months later

Iranian wrestling shoes from the 80's

Modern Iranian shoes.  Just like our cheapest asics model but they call them tazen's or something like that

Olympian Ken Chertow signed shirt.  he got that for showing a report card w all A's at a chertow camp when he was about 8 or 9. 

Poster signed by Dan Gable.  He did a presentation at the wrestling museum in Iowa when we were out there for a tournament.   The poster below gable is from U Tenn at Chattanooga.  Their close to us, he gets to roll around with some of those guys from time to time. 

and the man himself.  Happy looking group

This is not memorabilia really but its probably my favorite thing.  My kids coach wrestled for Terry Brands and he took a few of his wrestlers to a Brands camp, mine was maybe 9 or 10 at the time.  When he got home i noticed he had hung this up on his door.  I asked him what it meant and he said Brands had said to always win the hand fight, that champions won in the setups and to fight hard for position.  Its been hanging there for four years now, i think its pretty cool.