Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: portland , oregon - caption: sandow '' , at the start of the 20th century as a professional wrestler , '' young muldoon - birth name: wilhelm baumann - death date: 15 september 1972 - birth date: 4 september 1884 - name: billy sandow - names: billy sandow young muldoon - image: billy sandow.jpg - birth place: rochester , new york , united states Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of billy sandow .
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wilhelm baumann -lrb- september 4 , 1884 - september 15 , 1972 -rrb- , better known as billy sandow , was an american professional wrestler and promoter .he is best remembered as the manager of professional wrestler ed '' strangler '' lewis and a subsequent member of the famed gold dust trio promotion that changed the face of the industry during the 1920s -lrb- along with lewis and joseph '' toots '' mondt -rrb- .he may have taken his ring name from eugen sandow , a professional wrestler and strongman in the late 19th century ; in turn , current wwe wrestler damien sandow would adopt his own ring name in honor of sandow almost a century later .sandow also served as manager for such wrestling champions as billy jenkins , marin plestina , and everett marshall , and also used the ring name the zebra kid in 1951 .he was a charter inductee of the wrestling observer newsletter hall of fame in 1996 .sandow and his brother , max baumann , traveled together to promote wrestling events .they also promoted events in georgia .sandow met his star attraction lewis during world war i , when sandow was teaching recruits hand-to-hand fighting techniques .sandow was credited with helping to develop lewis ' famed headlock .the two men were linked in the public eye , and in 1926 , sandow and lewis published an eight-volume collection of preferred training and fighting techniques , which they dubbed '' kinetic stress . ''as the 1920s dawned , the popularity of professional wrestling was dimming , mostly due to the slow-paced '' mat wrestling '' style which had become dominant .promoters like sandow and toots mondt were eager to liven up their exhibitions with a more crowd-pleasing style .time limits were instituted , and events were held in more major arenas .they took control of all aspects of the pseudo-sport , by booking , training , managing and promoting .along with lewis , the threesome swiftly took the lead in promoting wrestling around the country , signing some of the top wrestlers to exclusive contracts...