اس سے پہلے کہ وہ ایڈ تھا۔ “Strangler کے” لیوس
ریسلنگ کے مورخین یا تو ایڈ "سٹرانگلر" لیوس یا فرینک گوچ کو سب سے بڑا امریکی پیشہ ور پہلوان مانتے ہیں۔. جبکہ ہم فرینک گوچ کے ابتدائی کیریئر کے بارے میں کافی کچھ جانتے ہیں۔, ہم ایڈ "سٹرینگلر" لیوس کے ابتدائی کیریئر کے بارے میں بہت کم جانتے ہیں۔.
مختلف ذرائع کا دعویٰ ہے کہ لیوس نے صرف چودہ سال کی عمر میں کارنیولز میں کیچ کے طور پر کیچ کین ریسلنگ سیکھی تھی۔. Lewis was born Robert Friedrich on June 30, 1891, in tiny Nekoosa, Wisconsin. میں 1900, Nekoosa boasted a population of 745 people.
Young Ed “Strangler کے” Lewis from the Public Domain
کی طرف سے 1910, when Friedrich wrestled his earliest professional wrestling match I can find, Nekoosa had doubled in population to 1,500. The town population never rose above 2,700.
منگل کے روز, دسمبر 27, 1910, Friedrich wrestled “Babe” Abel of Madison, Wisconsin in a best two-out-of-three-falls match. The men wrestled at Brook’s Hall in Nekoosa.
One of the myths about Friedrich is that Friedrich changed his name to Lewis to keep his parents from finding out that Friedrich was wrestling professionally. تاہم, Friedrich wrestling in his hometown argues against this theory. It is impossible to believe Friedrich could keep his profession a secret from his parents after wrestling under his real name in his small hometown.
Friedrich wrestled a legitimate contest in this match. Friedrich needed one hour, fifty-five minutes to pin Abel for the first fall. Even with a 15-minute intermission, Friedrich only need forty-nine seconds to slam an utterly exhausted Abel for the second fall and match in two straight falls.
میں 1913, Friedrich changed his name to Ed “Strangler” Lewis in honor of the original “Strangler”, کوائف لیوس. Evan Lewis was a fellow Wisconsin native, who was born in Ridgeway, Wisconsin and lived in Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
Friedrich started using Ed “Strangler” Lewis when he travelled to Kentucky to wrestle in early 1913. From that point until his retirement, Friedrich wrestled as Ed “Strangler” Lewis. 1920s کے دوران, Lewis earned more money from professional wrestling than any other professional athlete not named Jack Dempsey.
میں 1910, Friedrich was just an up-and-coming local star. Grandiose things were in store for the Wisconsin native.
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Sources: The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin), دسمبر 28, 1910, P. 4
Cover of Origins of a Legend, the true story of Ed “Strangler کے” Lewis’s early career
