Londos lutte contre Coleman et Shikina

I recently discovered a three minute clip on YouTube, qui comprenait deux de Jim Londos’ matchs des années 1930. Dans le premier match, Londos affronte Abe Coleman. Au deuxième match, Londos lutte un match de styles mixtes avec Oki Shikina, who was trained by Taro Miyake, ceinture noire de judo et lutteur professionnel.

Londos was the biggest box office star in professional wrestling history. While Londos was not in the same league as Ed “Strangler” Lewis, Joe Stecher or John “L'homme-tigre du Nebraska” Le sable, Londos did know “hooking”, the insider term for submission wrestling.

Abe Coleman achieved fame as “the Hebrew Hercules.” While Coleman stood only 5’03”, he weighed over 200 livres. Coleman also possessed a professional bodybuilder’s physique without the use of steroids. When Coleman died in 2007 at 101-years-old, he was the oldest living former professional wrestler.

Oki Shikina was born Morio Shikina in Okinawa. Shikina debuted in the early 1930s. Shikina wrestled until 1955, when he was 51-years-old.

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