The Fallout From the Hackenschmitt-Gotch Match

Wrestling's Charmin right along early 1900s, but then you get that whole world war thing. The sport languished and a shady as a kind of shady side show entertainment for drunks and people from New Jersey until the 1920s. In the early twenties, a wrestler named Ed Lewis is hooked up by his trainer, who'd also trained Frank Gatch with a fellow named Toots Monde. This took about a hundred years.