Londra vs. Nagurski dentro 1938

Novembre 18, 1938, l'ex campione del mondo di wrestling Jim Londos ha lottato con l'attuale campione del mondo Bronko Nagurski, il grande ex giocatore di football dei Chicago Bears. Gli uomini hanno lottato a Filadelfia, Pennsylvania per la versione di Nagurski del campionato mondiale di wrestling. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

Quando ho visto la partita per la prima volta, several things stood out. Primo, 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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