Catch wrestling
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catch-wrestling-179-12667814
title:
Catch wrestling
text:
Catch wrestling is a style of wrestling with looser rules than forms like Greco-Roman wrestling. For example, catch wrestling allows leg attacks and joint locks. It was popularised by wrestlers of travelling funfairs who developed their own submission holds, referred as "hooks" and "stretches", into their wrestling to increase their effectiveness against their opponents. In the UK, catch wrestling combines several British styles of wrestling along with influences from the Indian pehlwani and Iri
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Classical hybrid grappling style
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_wrestling
date created:
2005-12-05T01:51:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T02:58:43Z
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13
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