Catch Wrestling was founded in Britain?

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When i looked it up, it said the origin was in Great Britain.

So how come British MMA fighters can't wrestle for sh*t?
The majority of people who do catch wrestling are American also, so it's very strange. Is it just because wrestler got less popular in the UK and forgotten because there wasn't tournaments/doing it in highschool like in the US?

Is there actually any places in the UK that even train catch wrestling?
 
You answered most of the questions already. Yes it formed in Britain, yes it fell out of popularity. It is still taught in Lancashire, Roy Wood does seminars once a month, Tommy Heyes still teaches, and Jack Mountford too I believe.
 
KJGould said:
You answered most of the questions already. Yes it formed in Britain, yes it fell out of popularity. It is still taught in Lancashire, Roy Wood does seminars once a month, Tommy Heyes still teaches, and Jack Mountford too I believe.
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Ah right, thanks. I actually live in Lancashire so i'll look it up. :)
 
I've sadly been waiting for this sort of thread to pop up!
Catch wrestling started up in Wigan, Lancashire (north england).

Of all the people who came out of the Snake Pit (or Rileys Gym), I believe only Roy Wood and Billy Robinson still teach. Roy Wood is teaching in Wigan (Snake Pit), Billy Robinson is in the US (Scientific Wrestling)

I went up to the Snake Pit last month would you believe, learnt heaps.

The Snake Pit Wigan
 
The video isn't working for me. :p

Aspull is 20/25 minutes away from me. Thanks for the info, just checking out their site now.
 
Mike M said:
The video isn't working for me. :p

Aspull is 20/25 minutes away from me. Thanks for the info, just checking out their site now.
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Luck you, was an 8 hour round trip from Cardiff!!

Yeah i thought i'd be clever and embed it, don't think it works..
They also do amateur (Olympic) wrestling classes which are awesome.

Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube

I forgot to mention Tommy Heyes i think he trains in Bolton but by the sounds of it Aspull is closer.

Check out this video too, from about 34:00 on Josh Barnett talks about catch wrestling and mentions the snake pit:
Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube
 
Mayhem Nelson said:
Luck you, was an 8 hour round trip from Cardiff!!

Yeah i thought i'd be clever and embed it, don't think it works..
They also do amateur (Olympic) wrestling classes which are awesome.

Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube

I forgot to mention Tommy Heyes i think he trains in Bolton but by the sounds of it Aspull is closer.

Check out this video too, from about 34:00 on Josh Barnett talks about catch wrestling and mentions the snake pit:
Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube
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Wow, 8 hours that's crazy haha.

Amateur wrestling would be great too, i was looking for some places before aswell but if it does that too that's even better.

Bolton is actually closer to me. :p It's like 15 minutes away.
Both of the links are the same so i can't see the Josh Barnett video. xD
 
Catch wrestling's a completely different beast to your collegiate wrestling.
 
Catch is from England, but all European countries have historically had some form of submission wrestling; most have been forgotten. Submission grappling is evidenced in the earliest literature - in Beowulf the eponymous hero wrestles the monster Grendel and tears his arm out of his socket, in the Norse sagas guys are frequently breaking eachothers' limbs, necks and backs with submission holds. We're just re-discovering a very ancient and universal set of combat skills that our ancestors sadly forgot.
 
To TS, UNIT 1 Hallam Mill, Hallam st, Heaviley, Stockport, Cheshire, SK2 6PT.
07801022912.

The above is the Stockport Fighters gym, they train CACC 6 times a week. Ian Bromley is a terriffic wrestler/trainer.
 
Mayhem Nelson said:
Luck you, was an 8 hour round trip from Cardiff!!

Yeah i thought i'd be clever and embed it, don't think it works..
They also do amateur (Olympic) wrestling classes which are awesome.

Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube

I forgot to mention Tommy Heyes i think he trains in Bolton but by the sounds of it Aspull is closer.

Check out this video too, from about 34:00 on Josh Barnett talks about catch wrestling and mentions the snake pit:
Catch Wrestling Revival - YouTube
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Where do you train Catch in Cardiff? Is it at the university dojo with the fraud who used to train with a local BJJ team, then came back with mysterious CACC credentials?

Why not just train with the successful BJJ team there?
 
Bull Hammer said:
To TS, UNIT 1 Hallam Mill, Hallam st, Heaviley, Stockport, Cheshire, SK2 6PT.
07801022912.

The above is the Stockport Fighters gym, they train CACC 6 times a week. Ian Bromley is a terriffic wrestler/trainer.
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Yep, Johnny Huskey / Billy Wicks certified, more of the American Carnie style, but worth looking into.
 
Wonder if Steve Gawthorpe ever trained any CACC he's from the Bolton area and has a reputation in Judo circles for very formidable newaza. Although everything I've seen him do has been distinctively Judo.
 
I'm not sure, I've not heard of Gawthorpe, but if he's spent enough time in Bolton I would have thought he'd have come across Lancashire Catch at some point.
 
KJGould said:
I'm not sure, I've not heard of Gawthorpe, but if he's spent enough time in Bolton I would have thought he'd have come across Lancashire Catch at some point.
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World and European Bronze medallist. Made famous amongst Judoka outside of the UK through a book on strangles which re-told the story of how he choked out a Serbian from mount, but the ref didn't notice for quite some time and continued scoring it as a hold down.

The Serb had tapped to Gawthorpe earlier, but then convinced the ref he hadn't so he kept the choke on and when they did stop the fight. They couldn't revive the Serb on the mat and only managed to bring him round in the hospital.



I'll ask him next time I see him.
 
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