One hour warm-up, ink
“Pro-wrestling’s first “sleeper hold” is thought to have been performed by Jim Londos on June 29, 1931. Suspicion was abound as to the nature of Londos’ move (which had looked suspiciously like a choke against the windpipe); however, Londos was quoted the next day in The New York Sun as simply having performed “a new hold I perfected which shuts off the jugular vein.” Rear Naked Choke
