After watching strike force last night i thought i'd bring you guys up to speed on catch wrestling. Catch is the original submission grappling style. Victory can be attained by submission or pin. Almost every Japanese fighter can attribute his success to catch. In the early eighties Karl Gotch and Billy Robinson travelled to Japan and taught their style of catch wrestling to what would later turn out to be the founders of Pancrase, Submission arts Japan and Shooto.
Famous fighters include, Sakuraba, Josh Barnett and Neil Melanson(Randy Coutures head grappling coach) not to mention a thousand other Japanese fighter.
Here's a couple clip on the brutal style.
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