隆多斯 VS. 什卡特因 1930

过去二十年来, 保护主义者发现了几部 20 年代至 50 年代的摔跤电影，这些电影被认为已经丢失. 粉丝可以在 YouTube 上观看大部分新发现的电影.

其中一部幸存的电影时长为一小时十八分钟, 距离费城二十分钟的比赛, 宾夕法尼亚州在 1930. 吉姆·隆多斯 (Jim Londos) 与迪克·希卡特 (Dick Shikat) 摔跤 (视频链接) for a version of the World Championship in front of twenty thousand fans at Shibe Park, the home of the Philadelphia Athletics.

According to the pre-match publicity, 吉姆·隆多斯 wrestled Dick Shikat twice before with each man wining one of the matches. Promoters scheduled the rubber match for a baseball park correctly predicting fan interest in a match between the two men.

If you watch the mat, you will see it includes a lot of mat wrestling. 然而, the match was never boring.

The men traded holds throughout the match until Londos secured a top body lock with an armbar. Londos pinned Shikat for a count of three.

I thought promoters started using the three count later in the 1930s. 然而, the promoters implemented the three count for this match years earlier.

With the addition of the three count, it was impossible for a wrestler to hold down his opponent for a three count unless he was completely knocked out. The change made double-crosses by pin nearly impossible.

Both Londos and Shikat could hook or legitimately submit opponents although observers considered Shikat the better hooker. Shikat did double-cross Danno O’Mahony in Boston in 1936.

After being double-crossed behind the scenes by Joseph “Toots” Mondt and motivated by a strong personal dislike of O’Mahony, Shikat shot on O’Mahony legitimately injuring O’Mahony in the process.

Shikat had no intention to shoot on Jim Londos. Londos still is the biggest drawing card in the history of professional wrestling. Shikat knew what a match with Londos meant to his pocket book.

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Sources: 费城时报 (费城, 宾夕法尼亚), 六月 7, 1930, p. 18

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