Georgius Tragos, the original Crippler
Georgius Tragos celebris Lou Thesz exercitator, dominans National Luctationis Alliance World Heavyweight Vindicem 1950 et mane 1960. bibit, a 1920 Olympiae patriae Graeciae, aliquam impeccabilem habuit in legitima colluctatione.
natus Martii 14, 1901, in Messania, Graecia, ? 1920 Olympia apud solum 19 annorum.
Post certandi in 1920 Olympia, Tragos emigrasse in Civitatibus Foederatis Americae 1923. Tragos habitavit in St. Ludovici ubi popularem suum Tom Packs, natus est Anthanasios Pakiotis, promotus professional colluctatio.
Georgius Tragos, Olympiae luctator, middleweight professional luctator, educator et unus periculosissima deditionem luctatores sui diei (Public Domain)
Tragos munere suo luctatus est ac etiam professionales pilae in media divisione vicit. Tragos never achieved wrestling stardom though. Tragos non multum habuit personae quae eum rettulit in laborata aetate palaestrae luctandi.
Tragos victoria potitus est lanista potius quam ipsa luctator professio. Tragos Universitas Missouri colluctatio quadrigis a mediis 1920s usque ad mane 1930s illata est. Tragos etiam luctatores in Harry Cook's Men's Gym in Downtown St . exercitati sunt. Ludovicus.
In eius munere exercitatoris in Gym Negotia Men's Lou Thesz circum iuvenem occurrit 1933. Tom Packs suggesserant Thesz petere Tragos instituendi. Luctatores laboraverunt in gym, saepe exercentes in legitima colluctatione, etiamsi in anulo certamina laboraverunt.
Tragos Thesz alumnum suum accepit et eum in duos annos proximos exercuit. Conluctatores Theszi orabant ne se exercerent cum Tragos. The wrestlers warned Thesz that Tragos would lose his temper during training and hurt Thesz on purpose.
bibit, a skilled submission wrestler, nocere aliis athletas pueros deduxit in disciplina. Si alius athletae obtinuit bellus apud Tragos in disciplina, brachium fregit, leg, seu costa offensionis pars. Si autem gloriosior luctator, Tragos quoque nocere. When Thesz asked Tragos why, bibit dixit, "Non habent respectum ad lusum nostrum."
Tragos sarcinis usus est potentiale ad luctatores viriditas. Packs, aut eius booker Bill Nelson, potential athletas misit ad gym coqui ut cum Tragos instituendi. Tragos extendit, saepe nocere eis, et dimisit eos. If the injured wrestler came back after healing up, Packs might give the aspiring wrestler an opportunity.
The guys guaranteed to get injured were fans or want-to-be tough guys, qui monstraverunt apud Cook gymnasium ad luctatorem probandum. In aliquo querimonia, Tragos provocationem tulit, brachium hominis vel crus fregit, and watched impassively as the ambulance took the screaming man away. Tragos showed no remorse for hurting the braggarts in these circumstances.
Quamvis anteferretur legitima colluctatio, Tragos operatus est professionalem par. During February 1940, Tragos apertionem par cum Bob Haack in charta in Auditorio municipali fecit. St. Ludovicus Luctator Warren Bockwinkel, amicus Thesz, luctaretur Marcus Managoff in secundo par. Lou Thesz luctatus est Bronko Nagurski pro palaestra nationali Societas in summa re.
Quamvis alii luctatores’ timores, Tragos non nocuerunt Thesz. Tragos watched with pride as Thesz became the biggest name in professional wrestling during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
George Tragos passed away in St. Louis at 54 annorum in September 5, 1955. Tragos impetum cordis passus est et in via ad nosocomium mortuus est. Tragos’s wife Mary and two sons survived him.
Few wrestlers made the impact inside the ring that Tragos made outside of it. Una maxima legitima submissione luctatorum 20th Saeculum ostendit artes suas intra cubiculum gymnasium. pauci luctatores eum provocare ausi sunt.
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Sources: St. Louis Star and Times (St. Ludovicus, Missouri), February 17, 1940, p. 7, Hooker by Lou Thesz, Chapter 2, et Missouri mors certificatorium Database – George Tragos mors Quisque from 1955.
