Londra vs. Nagurski în 1938
Noiembrie 18, 1938, fostul campion mondial la lupte Jim Londos l-a luptat pe actualul campion mondial Bronko Nagurski, marele fost jucător de fotbal pentru Chicago Bears. Bărbații s-au luptat în Philadelphia, Pennsylvania pentru versiunea lui Nagurski a campionatului mondial de lupte. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.
Când am văzut meciul pentru prima dată, several things stood out. În primul rând, 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 la 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 (Domeniul Public)
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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