London lwn. Nagurski masuk 1938

Pada November 18, 1938, bekas juara gusti dunia Jim Londos bergelut dengan juara dunia semasa Bronko Nagurski, bekas pemain bola sepak yang hebat untuk Chicago Bears. Lelaki itu bergelut di Philadelphia, Pennsylvania untuk kejohanan gusti dunia versi Nagurski. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

Apabila saya melihat perlawanan itu buat kali pertama, several things stood out. Pertama, 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 kepada 1934, a wrestler only need to touch both his opponents shoulders to the mat to win like Londos does in the match above.

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Artist rendering of Jim Londos (Public Domain)

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 EdStrangler” 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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