Londen vs. Nagurski in 1938
Op november 18, 1938, voormalig wereldkampioen worstelen Jim Londos worstelde met de huidige wereldkampioen Bronko Nagurski, de grote voormalige voetballer van de Chicago Bears. De mannen worstelden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania voor Nagurski’s versie van het wereldkampioenschap worstelen. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.
Toen ik de wedstrijd voor het eerst bekeek, several things stood out. Eerste, 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 naar 1934, a wrestler only need to touch both his opponents shoulders to the mat to win like Londos does in the match above.
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 Ed “Worger” 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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