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On the same day Joe Stecher wrestled Stanislaus Zbyszko for the recognized version of the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in St. 路易, 和 “扼殺” Lewis challenged “大” Wayne Munn for his disputed Michigan-Illinois World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship. Lewis dropped the title to Munn in February 1925. 四月 1925, Zbyszko defeated Munn in a famous double-cross. The match between Lewis and Munn was to put the title back on long-time champion Lewis.

Lewis and Munn wrestled on May 30, 1925 in Michigan City, 印第安納州. Two days prior to the match, Lewis won in court against current World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Stanislaus Zbyszko. Zbyszko tried for a court injunction to bar Lewis from claiming the World Championship. Zbyszko knew after he legitimately beat Munn, the Gold Dust Trio promotion would put the belt back on Lewis, a legitimate wrestler.

While wrestling was prearranged, the wrestlers tried to hide the fact from the public. Several writers suspected both title bouts on May 30, 1925 were arranged finishes, they didn’t have any proof. 然而, the bouts were meant to complete the double cross. Zbyszko was dropping his title to former World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Joe Stecher. 和 “扼殺” Lewis would take back the disputed title from the man he loaned it to.

Before this match occurred, Lewis and Munn built excitement for the match with a promotional stunt.

When Munn won over Lewis in February 1925, Lewis claimed he lost due to injury and refused to turn over the championship belt. Munn had a different belt during his reign.

Munn refused to continue as champion unless Lewis turned over the belt to the commission. The winner of this match would have the original title. While this scenario was now preposterous with Munn’s loss to Zbyszko, the promotional team went through with the original story line.

Lewis didn’t want to embarrass Munn any more than he already had been in the match with Zbyszko. Lewis made Munn look good by actually letting Munn pin him with a crotch hold and half nelson at 24 分鐘, 55 秒.

Lewis took over in the second fall. Early in his wrestling career, Lewis used a version of the stranglehold employed by 19th Century wrestler Evan “扼殺” 劉易斯. After the move was banned, Lewis switched to the headlock. Lewis employed the headlock freely in this match. After a series of 20 headlocks, Lewis pinned Munn after 17 分鐘, 11 秒.

Lewis blew through the third fall much quicker. 7 headlocks led to the third and final fall at 7 minutes even. 和 “扼殺” Lewis was the World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion again despite the disputed status of his title.

“大” Wayne Munn would wrestle for a few more months before quietly retiring in 1926. Only five years later at 34 years age, Wayne Munn passed away from kidney problems on January 9, 1931. Munn was living with his wife and daughter in San Antonio, Texas at the time.

和 “扼殺” Lewis would reclaim the undisputed title in 1928, when Joe Stecher agreed to do business with him. Lewis won the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship four times in his career. Lewis wrestled from 1905, 當他 14 歲, 直到 1948, when he was a legally blind 57-year-old. Lewis lost his eye sight from trachoma, which he contracted from dirty wrestling mats.

When do you think professional wrestling started pre-arranging the matches? 您可以在下面或我的評論部分中發表評論或對此問題或任何帖子提出疑問 Facebook頁面 或 Twitter的個人資料.

Source: 在ST. 聖路易斯郵報, 五月 31, 1925 版, P. 12

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