“扼殺” Headlocks Caddock for Win

和 “扼殺” Lewis is one of the greatest professional wrestlers and world champions of all time. 劉易斯’ 招牌動作是束縛, which Lewis started using as promoters and wrestlers transitioned professional wrestling to a prearranged or “worked” exhibition.

Lewis originally used the front face lock or guillotine choke. Lewis’ namesake Evan “Strangler” Lewis made the front face lock or “stranglehold” infamous in the 1880s.

Lewis and his promotion partners, Toots Mondt and Billy Sandow, “砂金三重奏”, arranged the outcome of the matches. 在 1915, wrestlers working matches started to dominate American professional wrestling.

If another wrestler did not go along with the prearranged outcome and tried to double-cross Lewis, Lewis could “shoot” or defeat the wrestler anyway in a legitimate contest.

Lewis designed a unique training device to build his strength for the headlock. Lewis had a craftsman build a wooden dummy head, which the craftsman cut in half and connected three large springs between the two halves of the wooden dummy head. Lewis squeezed the dummy’s head together and held it to develop his grip and squeeze strength.

當劉易斯贏得了冠軍的第一次, Joe Stecher did not want to cooperate. 然而, Stecher did work the match with Lewis. 四月 1922, 劉易斯上了另一個摔跤手，在伯爵Caddock產品種類正當技能.

Earl Caddock wrestled in college before meeting 馬丁 “農民” 伯恩斯 和 弗蘭克Gotch表示. 伯恩斯和Gotch教Caddock產品種類 “掛鉤” 或實際技能意見書.

Caddock wrestled professionally from 1915 至 1922 but Caddock won two world titles in that time. Caddock won one championship from Joe Stecher and one championship from Wladek Zbyszko.

While Caddock knew submission wrestling, Caddock worked the title matches with Ed Lewis. Caddock understood making money as he retired to start a Ford Dealership in his home state of Iowa. Caddock built this business into one of the most successful dealerships in the state.

四月 13, 1922, 和 “扼殺” 劉易斯遇到了伯爵Caddock產品種類在威奇托的世界重量級摔跤冠軍, 堪薩斯州. Caddock surprised the crowd, but not Lewis when he won the first of three falls with a head scissors. Lewis was trying for his patented headlock when Caddock slipped behind him and applied a head scissors.

Lewis dropped the first fall to Caddock. Lewis knew he was putting a lot of trust in Caddock to not try a double-cross. Knowing he put himself at a disadvantage, 劉易斯 “謹慎” 今年秋天以後.

The men tied up for the next fall which Lewis won with the headlock in 43 分鐘. Lewis did not need the same time for the third fall which came at the 8-minute mark.

CADDOCK被擊敗了，但不氣餒. Caddock wrestled Lewis for the title one more time in June 1922. 這場失利後, Caddock retired to run his Ford dealership.

和 “扼殺” Lewis went on to be one of the most successful and respected wrestlers of the Twentieth Century. While Lewis worked his matches, he was good enough to legitimately defeat any wrestler, and did if they did not follow the planned outcome of the match. While Lewis wrestled few legitimate contests, Lewis could legitimately defeat any wrestler of his era.

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