London vs. Nagurski in 1938

På November 18, 1938, förre världsmästaren i brottning Jim Londos brottades nuvarande världsmästaren Bronko Nagurski, den stora före detta fotbollsspelaren för Chicago Bears. Männen brottades i Philadelphia, Pennsylvania för Nagurskis version av världsmästerskapet i brottning. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.

När jag såg matchen för första gången, several things stood out. Först, 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 till 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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