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I should add that there are luta livre camps in Brazil that refer to themselves as "Brazilian Catch" and have hosted events featuring pins and submissions, such as the Copa De Euclydes Hatem:It used to feature pins, but then they abolished pins in luta livre, in order to distinguish it from catch-wrestling, which was being associated with worked matches in Brazil. Luta livre and catch were basically interchangeable terms at one point and then, due to the stigma of worked matches, Brazilian practitioners sought to distinguish them from one another.