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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 6 (September 1, 1938)

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Bronco Nagurski, world champion wrestler, is to wrestle in Australia this season and, at the time of writing, the Dominion of New Zealand Wrestling Union had almost completed arrangements to secure the presence of the champion to defend his title in New Zealand. Not since wrestling has graduated to a major sport has New Zealand had the opportunity of staging a world championship bout. The last occasion when a heavyweight wrestling championship was decided in New Zealand was when Ike Robin wrestled Stanislaus Zybszko at Auckland, the bout being interrupted by the clock. It had gone on for many weary hours and when midnight Saturday chimed and Sunday commenced the match had to cease.

Under the rounds' system of wrestling the match will not exceed 90 minutes in duration and the go-slow tactics are avoided. If plans mature Nagurski will have one match, with the title at stake, and the Wrestling Union has decided that his opponent shall be chosen from among the men at present wrestling in New Zealand — the wrestler with the best competitive record from August 10th to be given the match against the champion.

The venue of the proposed match has not yet been decided, but indications are that the big contest will be staged at Auckland and the Railways Department will be asked to provide special trains to cater for the influx of visitors.

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