London dhidi ya. Nagurski ndani 1938
Novemba 18, 1938, bingwa wa zamani wa mieleka duniani Jim Londos alimenyana na bingwa wa sasa wa dunia Bronko Nagurski, mchezaji mkubwa wa zamani wa mpira wa miguu wa Chicago Bears. Wanaume hao walipigana mieleka huko Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kwa toleo la Nagurski la ubingwa wa mieleka wa dunia. You can view the 14-minute match in its entirety on YouTube.
Nilipotazama mechi kwa mara ya kwanza, several things stood out. Kwanza, 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 kwa 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 “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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