Lou Thesz

Lou Thesz was the stage name of Aloysius Martin Thesz, (April 24, 1916 – April 28, 2002) who was a champion wrestler for 58 years.

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Born in Banat, Michigan, Thesz moved to St. Louis when he was a young boy. It was in St. Louis where Thesz started wrestling. His parents, immigrants, hailed from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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A well-known catch wrestler or "hooker", Thesz wrestled professionally from 1932 to 1990. During the 1940s and 1950s, it was not uncommon for Thesz to put on 250 exhibitions a year, and while the outcome of most pro wrestling matches were "fixed" even then, Lou Thesz was the "real deal", a supremely talented freestyle wrestler with tremendous "legit" talent who could handle himself in a real contest (and did on several occasions). Lou Thesz was by far the greatest wrestler of the 40s and 50s, and it appears that he was never beaten in a legitimate contest from 1936 onward. His arsenal of "hooks" (or submission holds) could literally cripple a man in seconds, and his autobiography, Hooker, is perhaps one of the best books written on the subject of professional wrestling. (Privately published, the book is currently out-of-print.)

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