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I watched this topnotch documentary on youtube yesterday and wanted to share.

Curran Jacobs (MSU wrestler and catch world champion) has put together a documentary on the history of catch-as-catch-can wrestling along with Mike Chapman (WIN Magazine, creator of the Hodge Trophy, 5x National Wrestling Writer of the Year) that is absolutely fascinating. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Learn about guys like Billy Riley, Karl Gotch, Frank Gotch, Farmer Burns, and many more. Watch Terry Brands volunteer to get his tibia broken with a toe hold in front of the Gable statue. See the passion Dan Gable and others have for the history of the sport.

It is an hour and seventeen minutes well spent.

To paraphrase Mike Chapman, get hooked on catch.

 

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On 5/28/2024 at 4:23 PM, Wrestleknownothing said:

I watched this topnotch documentary on youtube yesterday and wanted to share.

Curran Jacobs (MSU wrestler and catch world champion) has put together a documentary on the history of catch-as-catch-can wrestling along with Mike Chapman (WIN Magazine, creator of the Hodge Trophy, 5x National Wrestling Writer of the Year) that is absolutely fascinating. I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Learn about guys like Billy Riley, Karl Gotch, Frank Gotch, Farmer Burns, and many more. Watch Terry Brands volunteer to get his tibia broken with a toe hold in front of the Gable statue. See the passion Dan Gable and others have for the history of the sport.

It is an hour and seventeen minutes well spent.

To paraphrase Mike Chapman, get hooked on catch.

 

It's crazy to think that at one time Pro wrestling was actually professional wrestlers, not actors pretending to be wrestlers. And the matches could literally go on for hours. I can't imagine it would be very exciting to watch a 2 hour wrestling match. Gotch or Hackenschmidt would've turned Dan Gable into a greasy spot on the canvas 😄

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5 minutes ago, NM1965 said:

It's crazy to think that at one time Pro wrestling was actually professional wrestlers, not actors pretending to be wrestlers. And the matches could literally go on for hours. I can't imagine it would be very exciting to watch a 2 hour wrestling match. Gotch or Hackenschmidt would've turned Dan Gable into a greasy spot on the canvas 😄

I did not realize that either until watching this. 

Gotch and Hackenschmidt were a couple of scary dudes.

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5 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

I did not realize that either until watching this. 

Gotch and Hackenschmidt were a couple of scary dudes.

Yeah they were. Plus Gotch had a reputation of not merely being a great technical wrestler, he also had a reputation for being a dirty and mean wrestler!! No wonder Gable and Brands love him so much, hehe. 

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