Catch-As-Catch-Can (1903)

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Uploaded by on May 5, 2008

Two young boys in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match

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  • THIS IS GOLD! FOR THE WRESTLING HISTORY

    I! Thank you!

  • this kinda looks like a work... the creativity and outlandishness of the moves makes me suspicious.

    maybe not a "work" but a demonstration?

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  • Just a question is it just the film running fast or were the people wrestling fast? Thanks heaps

  • The original real struggle!

    I hope some day in a near future, the WW (WWF, WWE, and all that crap...) becomes like it was in the beginning of catch wrestling...

    Do it for the good of Mankind,

    or Mankind will be lost.

  • @simplynotfact Thanks for clearing that up. I've taken CSW (Erik Paulson's Combat Submission Wrestling) and I was told (not by my instructor) that it was based on Catch Wrestling. I've read different items on the internet that imply that Farmer Burns, et. al., were submitting opponents at carnivals in "take on all comers" matches. This because they had to be able to beat much larger, stronger opponents, and the only way to do that was with submissions.

  • @carnivalwrestler

    there was no submission in CACC at that time.it was just feestyle wrestling.

    later they added submission from Jiusitsu.

  • @wrestler50000 I think that that "fantastic energy" is just a low frame rate

  • catch as catch dogkrap

  • @OrlyDudeGuy

    Oh well.

  • @OrlyDudeGuy

    Oh well, I don't care.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy Well then real wrestling has no place in the entertainment business which sucks. I wrestled in high school all four years man, if they had real pro wrestling promotions, I would've competed in it.

  • @OrlyDudeGuy Plus, after years of seeing fake pro wrestling, ppl are used to seeing it and that's what they want to see on tv. For the last couple of years, it's what people have been accustomed to seeing on tv. Imagine if they never changed it, ppl today would be accustomed to watching real wrestling but business is business.

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