Episodio 81 – Coraggio liquido

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In questo episodio, I will be talking a wrestler who need “liquid courage” to climb in the ring with Evan “The Strangler” Lewis.

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Contenuto principale

Evan Lewis Defeats a Drunken Wrestler

In 1887, Evan “Il Strangler” Lewis signed to wrestled Englishman Jack Wannock, the Cornish Wrestling Champion, Chicago Mayor Roche issued a permit for the match under the stipulation that 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 sterline, but his face betrayed his emotions. After the match, 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.

The match was a three-out-of-five falls match. In the first fall, 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 minuti e 20 secondi.

Wannock did his best work in the second fall, but it was not enough. Lewis started the fall with a headlock showing how little Lewis thought of Wannock. Wannock applied a leg grapevine and threw Lewis to his side. Lewis scrambled back to his feet. Lewis applied his own leg grapevine that Wannock turned into a hip lock and lift. Lewis barely escaped and grabbed another grapevine. Wannock again almost pinned Lewis 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 verbale, 20 secondi.

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 caused Wannock’s original drunkenness but “Il Strangler” caused Wannock’s head to swim more than alcohol ever could.

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Closing

WWE’s Rock Problem

-Rock inserted himself at the last minute

-Originally pitched Cody turning heel

– Instead, Cena turned heel

– My thoughts on John Cena

-Like having Sammartino kick Backlund in the balls in 1980

– From now on if the Rock is bored or does not have a movie project is he going to shoehorn himself into a storyline where he is not needed or even wanted

-It turned fans off last year and may do so again this year.

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