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Post by Bazzy on Jun 27, 2023 4:40:11 GMT -5
Seeing #OnThisDay golden era posts on Twitter/Facebook like today in 1935 Ireland's Danno O'Mahoney defeated Ed Stranger Lewis for Heavyweight title. The Irish Whip move was named by him (Danno)? What curiously puzzles me what title was it? What fed was it? . NWA started 1948 and WWWE 1953
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Post by guiltyparty on Jun 27, 2023 7:32:32 GMT -5
It was the New York State Athletic Commission title. But he didn't beat Lewis for the title on this day in 35, it was Londos. I believe Londos' NWA (National Wrestling Association) title was also on the line.
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Post by Carlzilla on Jun 27, 2023 15:25:15 GMT -5
It was the National Wrestling Association Heavyweight Title as well as the NYSAE Heavyweight Title both won from Londos not Lewis. About a month later he would take the AWA (not the Verne version which didn't exist at this point, but the Paul Bowser run Boston version) Title from Ed Don George and be billed as the Unified/Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion.
Also, his version of the Irish Whip and what we have come to know as the Irish Whip are fairly different things. He would sort of grab an armbar/arm twist/etc. and then throw the opponent to the mat by the held arm...over time, because the setup was usually similar, it somehow got associated with a whip into the ropes by play-by-play announcers, but technically, it's not the same thing. A whip to the ropes, while I don't want to say it never happened in O'Mahony's time, was an exceedingly rare thing until the later 40s and 50s when Buddy Rogers started/popularized the practice of "calling spots".
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