- Inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, 2002
- He sometimes wrestled 200 to 250 times a year, often after driving all night from one site to the next. By his count, his career encompassed 6,000 matches, 200 broken bones and 16 million miles.
- He was the six-time world champion of the National Wrestling Alliance, the most important governing body of the era, winning his first title at 21. He held the title a total of 13 years, a record.
- He won 936 consecutive matches from 1948 to 1955.
- His father Martin, a shoemaker, had been an amateur wrestling champion in his native Hungary.
- Hungarian birth name translated as "Aloysius Thesz" and birth name also seen as Aloysius Martin Thesz.
- Inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002. (charter class)
- Inducted into the WCW Hall of Fame on May 23, 1993.
- In 1952 he defeated Baron Michelle Leone in Los Angeles for the California World Heavyweight title and became the first undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion since the days of Frank Gotch and Georg Hackenschmidt.
- Published author.
- At the approximate age of 19, the young Thesz was taken under the wing of All Time Great and many times Champ, Ed "Strangler" Lewis.
- Was known in the Pro Wrestling game as a "Hooker"; that being a legitimate Wrestler ("Shooter")who possessed the ability and skills to seriously damage his opponents arm or leg joints by applying certain hold.
- At around age 19, Thesz was taken under the wing of All Time Great and many times Champ, Ed "Strangler" Lewis; under whose tut-ledge, Lou became the unprecedented 6 times legitimate World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion.
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