Shows you how much you know and how much you BS you have absorbed about the recent past. Believe it or not, wrestlers were all considered fat, not lazy however.
A good many of them were boxers who had gone to seed and took up wrestling to keep earning money, and in my memory, which is excellent, none of them were ever considered to be the epitome of health and good conditioning by anyone.
Boxers looked like athletes, wrestlers didn't. It wasn't until about the middle 70s(not sure on the exact date as I never have followed wrestling)that wrestlers started lifting weights and looking like athletes.
So, you are wrong in your assumption, no one looked to wrestlers of the 30s,40s and 50s as great looking men of good health.
And just to add to my last post, in the 50s people in general were in better condition and looked better than the average person does today, with a fat ratio for school kids a lot lower than what we see today, and no one had to work out in their spare time to get there,either. We worked back then because we had no other choice.
“Boxers looked like athletes, wrestlers didn’t. “
Antoine Charpentier was an exception to the rule. He had the body of a Greek God. Escape skills that were amazing. Can’t find anything but whiffs here and there on the net. From France back in the 50s.
You might want to look at these pictures of John L Sullivan the 1st heavy weight boxing champion.
He also has a similar build, and would be considered out of shape and over weight today.
The ideal of what a healthy man should look like has changed dramatically in recent years.
Grown men today are expected to look like lanky teenagers, it's ridiculous.
