Lou Thesz
Aloysius Martin Lou Thesz was an American professional wrestler and sixtime world champion, most notably holding the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times. Combined, he held the NWA Championship foryears, three months and nine days longer than anyone else in history. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with inventing a number of professional wrestling techniques such as the belly to back waistlock suplex , the Lou Thesz press, STF and the original powerbomb. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
Lou Thesz was born in 1916 in Banat, MI. but moved to St. Louis, MO. At an early age and this is where his fiftyeight year wrestling career would begin. He began his wrestling career in 1932 and retired from fulltime grappling in 1990. One of the original hookers, Thesz relied mainly on submission holds and could cripple a man within seconds of applying a hold, if he so chose to. Hookers would use submission and nerve holds that many people had never heard of and some of them were even illegal. Thesz was also trained by two of the best hookers in the business in George Tragos and Ad Santel.
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