Say Uncle!: Catch-As-Catch Can Wrestling and the Roots of Ultimate Fighting, Pro Wrestling & Modern Grappling
Jun 2011 · ECW Press
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Exploring the ancient Western martial art of catch-as-catch-can grappling, this definitive book covers the history, players, and strategies of the sport. Rich in history and full of painfully brutal techniques, catch-as-catch-can, or catch wrestling for short, is the great-grandfather of today’s mixed martial arts, professional wrestling, freestyle wrestling, and many reality-based self-defense systems. Say Uncle! includes explanations of the methods of catch-as-catch and is accompanied by clear illustrations that show how to use them most effectively, and the background of this unique sport is traced through America, Japan, England, and Ireland. Full of exclusive interviews with legends such as Karl Gotch, Billy Robinson, and Josh Barnett, this guide brings together all aspects of this little-known sport that is the root of modern MMA and professional wrestling.
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Zachary Zinda
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March 3, 2021
Fantastic book describing the history on 1 of the oldest sports known to man "wrestling" in particular the almost dead styles of English & American catch-as catch-can wrestlings (Submission Wins) history as well as its wrestlers and this brutally effective form of fightings impacts on amateur pro styles as well as its impact on modern MMA wanna see catch in a fight watch early Pancrase Funaki watch Josh Barnett vs Dean Lister
Hamed Hashemi
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February 5, 2020
It is a very interesting book.
About the author
Jake Shannon is the founder of www.ScientificWrestling.com and the inventor of the Macebell. He is the author of The Authoritative Encyclopedia of Scientific Wrestling; The Classical Pugilism & Bare-Knuckle Boxing Companion, Volume 1; and The Sport of Catch Wrestling. He lives in Salt Lake City.
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