Londres vs. Nagurski en 1938

En noviembre 18, 1938, El ex campeón mundial de lucha libre Jim Londos luchó contra el actual campeón mundial Bronko Nagurski., el gran ex jugador de fútbol de los Chicago Bears. Los hombres lucharon en Filadelfia., Pensilvania para la versión de Nagurski del campeonato mundial de lucha libre. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

Cuando vi el partido por primera vez., several things stood out. Primero, a wrestler needed to hold his opponents shoulders to the mat for three seconds to win the match. In some of the early surviving films from the 1930 a 1934, a wrestler only need to touch both his opponents shoulders to the mat to win like Londos does in the match above.

While Bronko Nagurski did not know much legitimate wrestling, Tony Stecher taught him enough wrestling to have a credible match with Londos, a shooter and hooker although Londos was not on the level of Ed “Strangler” Lewis, Joe Stecher or John Pesek.

The match also disproves that matches wrestled before the past twenty years are slow and boring. Nagurski and Londos wrestled a fast-paced match for the entire fourteen minute match. Watch the match and judge for yourself.

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