在他成为埃德之前 “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” 刘易斯
摔跤历史学家认为埃德·“扼杀者”·刘易斯或弗兰克·戈奇是美国最伟大的职业摔跤手. 虽然我们对弗兰克·戈奇的早期职业生涯了解很多, 我们对埃德“扼杀者”刘易斯的早期职业生涯知之甚少.
各种消息来源称，刘易斯在十四岁时就在嘉年华中学会了摔跤. Lewis was born Robert Friedrich on June 30, 1891, in tiny Nekoosa, Wisconsin. 在 1900, Nekoosa boasted a population of 745 people.
Young Ed “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” Lewis from the Public Domain
由 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.
周二, 十二月 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. 然而, 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.
在 1913, Friedrich changed his name to Ed “Strangler” Lewis in honor of the original “Strangler”, 埃文·刘易斯. 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. 在20世纪20年代, Lewis earned more money from professional wrestling than any other professional athlete not named Jack Dempsey.
在 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), 十二月 28, 1910, p. 4
《传奇的起源》的封面, 艾德的真实故事 “<跨度bbox_x =“949”bbox_y“1780”bbox_w =“52”bbox_h =“19”的fsize =“13”fweight =“3”红=“255”绿色=“255”蓝色=“255”阿尔法“” Lewis’s early career
