EXCITING WRESTLING.
THROWN .OUT OF THE RING. WORLD’S TITLE LOST. , KANSAS CITY. Jan. 2. “Strangler” Lewis lost the world’s wrestling championship last night to Wayne Mu mi, aged' 27, comparatively a mere tyro in wrestling. A most spectacular contest was watched by 20,000 spectators.
Munn took the first fall after 23 minutes, during which Lewis was unable to secure the headlock, which made him famous. Munn simply was too burly and powerful for the champion. The crowd was thrown into a turmoil, when, after ten minutes of the second period had elapsed, Lewis losing his temper, landed an uppercut to the former football star’s jaw. Munn blinked unsteadily for a imminent, and then, catching Lewis, whose weight is now over 16 stone, hurled him bodily from the ring, landing him on his head amongst the ringsiders.
Lewis had never got such a handling before, and, amid pandemonium, was awarded this fall on a foul, while the referee allowed him 15 minutes’ rest.
Munn took the third fall easily, within three minutes, using the crotch hold, the same as he did in the first bout.
Munn, who is a giant, lias beei wrestling for two years, and lias neve: fieen defeated
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 3
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200EXCITING WRESTLING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 January 1925, Page 3
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