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Welcome to the Roaring 20s. Say no to the flappers and shot the door on the

speakeesies. Have a night out instead at the professional wrestling. See Ed Strangler

Lewis and his powerful headlock attempt to squeeze the life out of Jim Londoff in a world title fight

for the ages.

Get your tickets to the St Louis Coliseum now, or you may find yourself in a headlock of your own.

The Gold Dust Trio had brought wrestling back from the brink in the 1920s.

Big characters and flashy wrestling holds had given the sport a fresh modern feel

something that the affluent American audience were ready to hand over good money to see.

The ever rotating cast of wrestlers orbited around three pivotal people.

Ed Strangler Lewis, the champion, Billy Sandow, the business manager, and Tootsmont, the Booker and the matchmaker.

With their powers combined, they were presenting wrestling in a new and exciting light.

They seemed unstoppable.

We'll take the best features of boxing and the holes from Greco Roman.

Combine these with the all-time lumber camp style

of fighting and call it slam-bang Western-style wrestling.

The famous words of Tootsmont.

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