Wist Lewis Versla Drunken Wrestler?

Evan “Worger” Lewis was een enge concurrent. Hoewel hij op vijf voet geen grote man was, negen centimeter lang. Lewis woog 170 pond, Lewis’ mastery of submissions made him an equal or better of most wrestlers of his era. Jack Carkeek was a terrific wrestler but one match with Lewis almost caused him to retire.

Lewis’ 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, Burgemeester van Chicago Roche zou de wedstrijd alleen toestaan ​​als promotors de wurggreep verboden.

The match billed for the “World Title” took place on May 7, 1887, at Battery D in Chicago, Illinois. Wannock looked fit at 190 pond, Maar zijn gezicht verraadde zijn emoties. Later, 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 bewees dat Wannock's bang zou moeten zijn. De wedstrijd was een drie-out-of-five Falls-wedstrijd, Maar Lewis besloot er een korte nacht van te maken.

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 minuten en 20 seconden.

Wannock deed zijn beste werk in de tweede herfst, Maar het was niet genoeg. Lewis begon de herfst met een headlock, Maar Wannock verzekerde een grapevine en gooide Lewis aan zijn zijde. 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 minuten en 20 seconden.

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 “De Strangler” caused the most “drunkenness”. Andere worstelaars zouden hetzelfde lot lijden vóór zijn pensionering 1899.

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

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