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	Lou Thesz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1957, Thesz became the first wrestler to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in Japan, wrestling Rikidozan, the father of professional wrestling in Japan, in a series of 60 minute draws.
		Thesz became the president of the Cauliflower Alley Club in 1992, an organization for retired pro wrestlers, a position he held until 2000.
		Thesz died on April 28, 2002 in Orlando at the age of 86.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lou_Thesz (1054 words)

	Lou Thesz Interview
		Lou Thesz: Anyway they ran a pretty tight ship and they did a very good job, and a little bit later with the advent of TV and so forth, the hype began and the rest of the story you know.
		Lou Thesz: Well, my father wrestled before me in Europe, he was a very well known amateur wrestler and he supported my interest while we lived in St. Louis, why he would take me to the matches, and I watched the wrestlers and that really hyped me up on the sport.
		Lou Thesz: I didn't disagree with what he was doing at all as a matter of fact he was not a bad wrestler, a lot of people didn't know that, he was a pretty good heavyweight wrestler.
	members.aol.com /solie11/lout.html (4197 words)

	WrestleLine.com
		Lou Thesz was an honest champion, a back-breakingly hard worker with legendary stamina, and a loyal friend to those lucky enough to win his camaraderie.
		Lou Thesz started humbly, found something he loved, and traveled the world to show everyone who cared about pro wrestling why he was considered by many to be the best wrestler ever.
		As a final tribute to Lou Thesz, here is an encore presentation of a 3-part interview I conducted with him in May 2001 for WrestleLine, in which he tells many of his favorite stories from the 1930s to the present day.
	www.wrestleline.com /columns/circa/circa043002a.shtml (2173 words)

	Wrestling Digest: Wrestling digest tribute: Lou Thesz, Wahoo McDaniel, and Davey Boy Smith: we look back at the lives ...
		Lou Thesz, one of the most famous and respected champions in the history of the industry, died on April 28 at the age of 86, nearly three weeks after undergoing open-heart surgery.
		Thesz, who made his professional wrestling debut in 1932 at the age of 16, was an elite performer for over 30 years and wrestled in parts of seven decades.
		Thesz was in his prime and was a top draw during the industry's boom period in the '50s, when wrestling was a staple of early network television.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCO/is_2_4/ai_88761528 (521 words)

	Lou Thesz
		Thesz began wrestling at the age of 16 in the St. Louis district in 1932, an interesting time to become a wrestler.
		Thesz then was set to face off against the National Wrestling Alliance World Heavyweight Champion, Orville Brown, in November 1949, but when Brown was injured in a car accident, Thesz was given the belt via forfeit, unifying the titles.
		Thesz continued to be a dominant champion for almost an entire decade, while also bringing the Los Angeles Heavyweight Title into the mix in May '52, beating Baron Michele Leone.
	www.accelerator3359.com /Wrestling/bios/thesz.html (1079 words)

	Obsessed With Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou Thesz, even with an artificial hip replacement, was able to take part in a match in Japan at age 73..
		Lou Thesz remained active in a handful of charities, is president of the influential oldtimers' Cauliflower Alley Club..
		Upon death, Lou Thesz's body was cremated and ashes spread on a riverbank in Missouri..
	www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /profiles/l/lou-thesz.html (242 words)

	[No title]
		Thesz is dressed for battle in fl satin trunks fl paten leather wrestling boots and a fl satin ring jacket.
		Lou again pulls June to her feet going between her legs grabbing a handful of her satin tights hooking her head he lifts and slams her to the mat.
		Lou cries out in pain, but before he can cup his hands over the injured area he is pulled to his feet.
	www.thevalkyrie.com /stories/gflm/atime.txt (2288 words)

	Professional Wrestling Online Museum - Ring Chronicle Hall of Fame Inductee - Lou Thesz
		Lou Thesz is considered by many to be the single greatest wrestling champion of all time.
		Thesz was born on April 24, 1916 and he made his pro wrestling debut at the age of 16 in East St. Louis, Il.
		Lou Thesz (pictured on the right with NWA President/promoter Sam Muschnick) was also indirectly involved in the creation of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).
	www.wrestlingmuseum.com /pages/bios/halloffame/theszbio.html (694 words)

	Life and Times of A Hooker: Review of Lou Thesz's autobiography in Wrestling Perpective #100
		Thesz would be a hedgehog in that he has one big idea, the idea of being a wrestler and pursued it into being the best wrestler he could be.
		Thesz also told me on more than one occasion that he felt he had been lucky in his career, to which I replied that he was more smart than lucky in that he made the most of the opportunities that presented themselves.
		Lou would also note that George was the wrestling coach at the University of Missouri, but Mike Chapman could find no record of that and attributed it to wrestling legend.
	www.wrestlingperspective.com /hookerreview.html (1975 words)

	SoCal UNCENSORED Forums - Lou Thesz column
		Thesz admitted the fights and stories were fake, he described his training in detail, he wrote about various backstage stories, and destroyed the wall that kept fans from knowing about pro-wrestling history in the fullest way.
		Thesz's peak popularity never reached Roger's, although it was not because he could not adapt to the rising level of "entertainment" in pro-wrestling.
		Thesz also made far more in advertising in LA than any other area in the company; he was paid $25,000 just to let a beer company use his likeness in billboards.
	www.socaluncensored.com /board/showthread.php3?t=541 (1282 words)

	Obituary - Lou Thesz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Professional wrestling lost a titan on the morning of April 28 when Lou Thesz died in an Orlando hospital less than a month after open heart surgery.
		Thesz was NWA world champion six times between 1937 and 1967.
		At 6-2, 225 pounds and with a 20-inch neck, Thesz was a natural athlete who moved like a cat in the ring.
	www.gerweck.net /louthesz.htm (274 words)

	THE GREATEST WRESTLER OF ALL TIME RINGMASTER NORFOLK'S LOU THESZ IS AS SWEET AS AN ANGEL, BUT IN FIVE SECONDS FLAT, HE ...
		Lou Thesz is a 78-year-old gentleman who sips imported coffee in the morning while surrounded by a collection of antique valuables gathered from around the world.
		Lou Thesz was a professional wrestler in the classic tradition.
		When you visit the home of Lou Thesz and his wife, Charlie, your eye is drawn immediately to a marble sculpture of two wrestlers engaged in Greco-Roman style wrestling.
	www.puroresu.com /wrestlers/thesz/vapilot.html (1152 words)

	Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou Thesz was billed as being from St Louis, Missouri but was actually born in Michigan in 1916 but his family moved to St Louis when Lou was three years old.
		Lou had the perfect body, mind and temperment for the world of professional wrestling.
		Lou wrestled at age 73 in Japan and continues to look remarkably fit even today in his mid-80's.
	www.pwhf.org /halloffamers/bios/thesz.asp (176 words)

	[Deathwatch] Lou Thesz, Former Pro Wrestling Champ, 86
		Thesz was a six time NWA Champion, winning his first title in 1937 at the age of 21.
		Thesz's title reigns totaled almost 13 years, and in addition to his final three-year reign, Thesz was also the NWA Champion for 8 straight years between 1948 and 1956.
		Thesz's final title win is remarkable for a reason other than the fact that he held the belt while in his upper 40s...
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00731.html (580 words)

	Lou Thesz
		However, it was because of the tough life his parents had to go through in a Michigan small town and Thesz wanted to forget that.
		After being trained by the wrestling legends such as George Tragos, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, and Ad Santel, Lou Thesz became the greatest wrestler of this century.
		He was the first world heavyweight champion to step on the Japanese soil when "World Heavyweight Title" meant a lot in the sport.
	www.puroresu.com /wrestlers/thesz (282 words)

	The Lee Benaka Interviews - Lou Thesz
		Thesz won his first championship in 1937 from Everett Marshall and has fought many grueling mat battles ever since, as is evident by the puffy "cauliflower" ears that were displayed during this 1991 interview.
		In fact, from 1993 to 2000 Thesz served as President of the Cauliflower Alley Club, an association of past, present and future champions; contestants; and allied personages joining in recognition and celebration of fellowship within the boxing and wrestling world.
		Although Thesz is considered by many to be the elder statesman of professional wrestling, he could still probably whip a man a fourth of his age.
	www.deathvalleydriver.com /Benaka/Thesz.html (1711 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Named after his hometown of St. Louis, Thesz was introduced to Greco-Roman wrestling at the age of eight by his father, who wrestled in his native homeland of Hungary.
		Lou Thesz went on to become world champion, beating the previous champ in a three-hour two-out-of-three falls match (!).
		The gameplan with Thesz should be sticking to his array of basic holds and strikes.
	home.comcast.net /~billwood661/fire_prowrestling_d_lou_thesz.txt (486 words)

	IWIM - Lou Thesz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou was immediately bitten by the wrestling bug and decided to wrestle professionally.
		Thesz won the NWA world title from Everett Marshall in 1937 in St. Louis, at the age of 21 and held the title on six occasions for a total of 13 years, longer than any other wrestler in NWA history.
		For nearly four decades, Lou Thesz was one of the biggest names in all of professional sports.
	www.wrestlingmuseum.org /people/thesz_lou.html (303 words)

	Lou Thesz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou Thesz, considered by many professional wrestling experts as the last true pure wrestler and perhaps the greatest wrestler ever, died at his home in Winter Garden, Fla., on Sunday (April 28, 2002) from complications of open-heart surgery.
		Thesz, who wrestled in more than 6,000 matches, worked for various promoters all over the world after he lost the title, but his interests turned to training potential wrestlers and refereeing here and in Japan.
		Lou too was a great storyteller with a magnificent memory for a gentleman his age.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/674245/posts (2929 words)

	GARY WILL: Whipper Watson wins NWA title from Lou Thesz, March 15, 1956 -- Toronto Wrestling History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the same time, Lou Thesz had been world champion for nearly eight years and was ready to take a break.
		Thesz and Watson had some ego clashes through the years, but were on good terms and Thesz always spoke very highly of Frank Tunney.
		Thesz slipped out of the ring to try to break the hold, but Watson followed him out, keeping the corkscrew applied.
	www.garywill.com /toronto/watson56.htm (539 words)

	Lou Thesz - NetShrine Discussion Forum
		It probably passed unnoticed by most but Lou Thesz, NWA Heavyweight Champ for most of the period between 1939 and 1965, passed away in Orlando recently.
		I am not especially a fan of professional wrestling but I saw Thesz several times as a lad and he had the skills of a tremendous amateur wrestler, along with the ability to put himself across as a showman.
		Thesz's autobiography HOOKER (a term meaning someone with the ability to force other wrestlers to follow the script) is fascinating.
	www.netshrine.com /vbulletin2/showthread.php?t=4000 (394 words)

	Wrestling Digest: With Thesz goes an era - Phantom of the Ring - wrestler Lou Thesz - Obituary - Brief Article
		Lou looked like a wrestler; there were no gimmicks in his repertoire.
		Thesz quickly became a gym rat, because that's where the action was in amateur wrestling.
		Sanderson thought Thesz would make a fine pro and taught him the ins and outs of "working" a match: how to sell for one's opponent, how to take a fall, and how to exaggerate a hold so those patrons in the cheap seats could see it and enjoy it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCO/is_2_4/ai_88761520 (510 words)

	The Flagship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lou Thesz, one of the true cornerstones on which professional wrestling is built, passed away last week at the age of 86.
		“Lou Thesz was the Babe Ruth of professional wrestling,”; said Mike Chapman, Executive Director of the International Wrestling Institute and Museum in Newton, Iowa and longtime friend of the Thesz family.
		Thesz will be inducted into the new Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Schenectady, New York on May 5.
	www.flagshipnews.com /archives_2002/may022002_16.shtml (828 words)

	Goodbye Lou Thesz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thesz started wrestling professionally in the mid-1930s at age 17 and took part in a match in Japan when he was 73.
		Thesz was among wrestling's most visible performers in the 1940s and 1950s, according to Kit Bauman, co-author of Thesz's autobiography, ``Hooker: An Authentic Wrestler's Adventures Inside the Bizarre World of Professional Wrestling.''
		Lou Thesz was also a member of WCW's hall of fame and one of the only few men to get a wrestling move named after him, the Lou Thesz Press, which is a favorite move of former WWF champion Steve Austin.
	www.pwwew.net /people/louthesz.htm (255 words)

	Ray Steele
		Lou Thesz came home again the other day, at 81 the same amazing man who last wrestled professionally in Tokyo at age 74 and lost -- because his artificial hip didn't hold up.
		Here, Thesz came in with other wrestlers of his general era - Gene Kiniski, Jack Briscoe, Harley Race and Terry and Dory Funk -- to be honored with them and Sam Muchnick at an enlarged studio show of the Worldwide Wrestling Federation.
		Thesz, who attended night high school briefly, absorbed culture and found articulation as a world traveler with frequent waking afternoons in public libraries.
	www.volgagermans.net /norka/Norka_Ray_Steele.htm (4457 words)

	Wrestling Digest: With Thesz goes an era - Phantom of the Ring - wrestler Lou Thesz - Obituary - Brief Article on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Not only was Thesz the dominant wrestler of his period by far, he was also the force that shaped the promotion of modern wrestling during what has been called the "Golden Age" of the sport during the late '40s and '50s.
		Thesz was born in St. Louis on April 24, 1916, the son of Martin Thesz, an amateur middleweight wrestler.
		Thesz called these meals "baloney blowouts." More importantly, during this time he made the acquaintance and friendship of Warren Bockwinkel.
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCO/is_2_4/ai_88761520 (636 words)

	Thesz
		Lou was a legend in his own time and would continue to be for forty more years.
		Lou Thesz was known for his raw boned strength.
		Lou had a habit of only lacing his high top boots half way up and then tying the laces.
	www.dory-funk.com /thesz.html (927 words)

	Mid-Week Report
		Actually, the Thesz six title reign situation is similar to the Flair deal, in that it depends on which way you look at it.
		April 25, 1947 - Lou Thesz (Lajos Tiza) beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, Missouri, USA to win the NWA World title for the third time of his career.
		Thesz eventually goes on to achieve the record for being the longest-reigning World champion in NWA history, setting a mark that still stands to this day.
	www.ddtdigest.com /updates/1999123b.htm (1006 words)

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