Zombie Threads of Old!

[Ultimatewingchun]

"Catch never was an active sport. If you look at the history it was a carnival display thing with challenge matches." (Wayfaring)
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***Incorrect. You need to look into the history of cacc wrestling matches in the late 1880's and 1890's/early years and decades of the 1900's - perhaps starting with some of the most famous of all, ie.- American Frank Gotch vs. George Hackenschmidt (2x)....Hackenschmidt was the reining heavyweight European Greco-Roman champion - which included Gotch submitting Hack with a toehold; Joe Stecher vs. Earl Caddock in Madison Square Garden, and hundreds of other matches.

These were not carnival challenge matches.