Londres vs. Nagurski em 1938

Em novembro 18, 1938, ex-campeão mundial de luta livre Jim Londos lutou contra o atual campeão mundial Bronko Nagurski, o grande ex-jogador de futebol do Chicago Bears. Os homens lutaram na Filadélfia, Pensilvânia para a versão de Nagurski do campeonato mundial de luta livre. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

Quando vi a partida pela primeira vez, several things stood out. Primeiro, 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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