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About Evan Lewis
Evan Lewis was an American professional wrestler who was the first recognized American Heavyweight Champion and is credited with perfecting the "stranglehold" or "neck yoke" more commonly known today as the sleeperhold. He is sometimes confused with Ed "Strangler" Lewis, a later six-time World Heavyweight Champion also credited with first using the hold, whose moniker is attributed to Lewis's after a reporter noted a resemblance between the two.
Everything about Evan Lewis →- Occupation
- professional wrestler
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 24, 1860
- Died
- November 3, 1919