Londres vs. Nagurski sartu 1938

Azaroaren on 18, 1938, Munduko borroka txapeldun ohia den Jim Londosek Bronko Nagurski egungo munduko txapeldun borrokan aritu zen, Chicago Bears-eko futbolari ohi handia. Gizonak Philadelphian borrokatu ziren, Pennsylvania Nagurskiren munduko borroka txapelketaren bertsiorako. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

Partida lehen aldiz ikusi nuenean, several things stood out. Lehen, 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 arte 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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