Дали Луис пораз Пијаниот Борачот?

Еван “Strangler” Луис беше страшно конкурент. Although he was not a large man at five feet, nine inches tall. Lewis weighed 170 фунти, Луис’ мајсторство на поднесоци го направи еднакви или подобри од повеќето борачи од својата ера. Џек Carkeek беше страшно борач но еден натпревар со Луис речиси предизвикани од него да се пензионира.

Луис’ reputation was strongly related to his feared stranglehold. After he applied it to Carkeek, Carkeek was nauseous for a week.

When Lewis signed to wrestled Englishman Jack Wannock, the Cornish Wrestling Champion, Chicago Mayor Roche would only allow the contest if promoters banned the stranglehold.

The match billed for the “World Title” took place on May 7, 1887, at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. Wannock looked fit at 190 фунти, but his face betrayed his emotions. Подоцна, witnesses told the newspaper men that Wannock had been in a tavern prior to the match. Lewis worried him so much that Wannock needed liquid courage prior to the match.

Lewis proved that Wannock’s should be afraid. The match was a three-out-of-five falls match, but Lewis decided to make it a short night.

In the first fall, both men approached each other warily until Lewis caught a leg grapevine. Lewis scrambled to a cross-buttocks lift and planted Wannock solidly on his back for the first fall at 6 minutes and 20 seconds.

Wannock did his best work in the second fall, but it was not enough. Lewis started the fall with a headlock, but Wannock secured a grapevine and threw Lewis to his side. Lewis scrambled back to his feet.

Lewis secured a grapevine that Wannock turned into a hip lock and lift. Lewis barely escaped and grabbed another grapevine. Wannock again almost pinned him with the hip lock lift.

A frustrated Lewis grabbed Wannock in a hammerlock. Lewis changed the hammerlock into a half-nelson and turned Wannock to his back. Lewis won the second fall in an identical 6 minutes and 20 seconds.

Wannock was bleeding from the mouth and tired to start the third fall. Desperate, Wannock charged Lewis, who deftly side-stepped the charging Wannock. Lewis applied a grapevine to a shoulder lock and planted Wannock on his back one more time.

Lewis vaulted over the top ropes to leave the ring, while Wannock staggered from the ring with help from his seconds. Alcohol did not help Wannock but a bout with “На Strangler” caused the most “drunkenness”. Other wrestlers would suffer the same fate before his retirement in 1899.

Since I wrote this post, I completed Еван “На Strangler” Луис: The Most Feared Wrestler of the 19th Century available on Amazon.

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