LEGENDS: LOU THESZ (April 24, 1916 – April 28, 2002) • Repost from @sonnybrownbreakdown • “Lou Thesz, a Catch Wrestler and American professional wrestler, considered a shooter (with legit submission skills) in professional wrestling, also spent time in Japan training wrestlers in mixed martial arts and catch-as-catch-can. Here he is in the 1960s in professional wrestling matchups, hitting a ton of rolling double wrist locks and switching off to the short arm scissors, which now has a fancy name

Lost footage of Lou Thesz Match Resurfaces

Wee Stu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇦🇺 on Instagram: "It’s interesting that Shiro has largely been forgotten about, he was the inaugural IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion, which he would win a further 2 times. He was a 3x IWGP Tag champion with Muto, Tenryu and Sasaki and he won the first ever Best of Super Juniors in 1988 - beating Hiroshi Hase. Going back even further to his AJPW days, Shiro beat Misawa in his early career - winning the Lou Thesz Cup in 1983. It’s crazy because he kept himself relevant fo