Lou Thesz Quotes


I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.


Citations

Thesz, Lou, and Kit Bauman. Hooker: An Authentic Wrestler's Adventures Inside the Bizarre World of Professional Wrestling. Wrestling Channel Press, 1992.

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Lou Thesz
Lou Thesz
  • Born: April 24, 1916
  • Died: April 28, 2002
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Athlete

Aloysius Martin Thesz was an American professional wrestler. A fifteen-time world champion, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship three times for a combined total of 10 years, three months and nine days (3,749 days) – longer than anyone else in history. Thesz is widely regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Among his many accomplishments in the sport, he is credited with inventing a number of professional wrestling moves and holds such as the belly-to-back waistlock suplex (later known as the German suplex due to its association with Karl Gotch), the Lou Thesz press, stepover toehold facelock (STF), and the original powerbomb.