The Screw Job | Wrestling In The Twenties, Part 3
Cultaholic Wrestling
Cultaholic
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Roaring 20s. |
| 0:05.0 | Fancy a night on the town, then check out the professional wrestling action. |
| 0:10.0 | Live from the Chicago Coliseum. |
| 0:13.0 | Will Stadis El Sabisco tie Joe Zichmann up in 17,000 knots once again. |
| 0:19.0 | Can all-American Mike Grimato see off a challenge by Germany's Hermann Kutch. |
| 0:24.3 | And how will world champion Ed Strangler Lewis fair when he puts all the goal on the line |
| 0:30.1 | against world-renowned Jiuubitsu specialist Taiy- |
| 0:33.6 | answers to all these questions and more can be found on New Year's Day at the |
| 0:38.5 | Chicago Coliseum. You can buy the seat but you'll only need the edge. |
| 0:44.0 | The Gold Dust Trio were changing the wrestling world with their touring promotion at the beginning |
| 0:49.8 | of the 1920s. |
| 0:52.2 | Ed Stranger Lewis as champion at the top of the show. the maker they made for a fine triumvirate. |
| 1:03.0 | Three men who refuse to let the industry they love go quietly into the night |
| 1:08.0 | as a result of poor ticket sales and disinterest. |
| 1:11.0 | They curated the slam-bang Western style of wrestling, big |
| 1:15.2 | characters, long story lines, extravagant moves and big match finishes that were |
| 1:21.2 | clearly drawing the punters back. The irony that doubling |
| 1:24.9 | down on the fixed nature of pro wrestling was legitimising it with the fans. We talked |
| 1:30.3 | last time about how the proposed wrestler versus Boxer match that didn't happen |
| 1:35.3 | between Ed Lewis and Boxing Champ Jack Debse, actually saw the audience predicting victory |
| 1:41.6 | for the Strangler proving that wrestling was very much |
| 1:46.2 | cool again. I have followed every line of athletics and find that wrestling is the best bodybuilder and health |
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