Can a catch wrestler go into the UFC?
im a wrestler (high school) and thought it would be groovy to go into the UFC as a catch wrestler. Catch wrestling has arm bars and leg locks just like other forms of grappling, but they also have some more flashy submissions (boston crab, scorpian, Texas clover), not only do these look kewl, but they look painful and would make anyone tapout
a painful catch wrestling submission: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.darkplanetcatchwrestling.com/images/boston.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.darkplanetcatchwrestling.com/catch.html&usg=__dLk-A7PBxGce7_mx3b2bhCpWG4c=&h=407&w=375&sz=57&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=pyPujNgGhT0VlM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcatch%2Bwrestling%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
im 14 by tha way
Kazushi Sakuraba and Josh Barnett fought in the UFC; their primary background is Catch wrestling. Ken Shamrock, Frank Shamrock, Guy Mezger, Vernon White, and other fighters from the Lion’s Den also had a Catch-based system of grappling.
The UFC has no restrictions on which styles are allowed. However, a good MMA record is what the talent scouts are looking for. Most of that is available at a good MMA gym. In California, Josh Barnett and Erik Paulson teach Catch and Catch-based submission grappling at their gyms. There are also some gyms in Japan that teach a Catch-based system, as well as smaller gyms throughout the US.
True Catch will not include too many of those spine locks that you’ve mentioned. Sasori-gatame (“scorpion death lock”) wasn’t part of the traditional Catch arsenal; it was invented by a Japanese pro wrestler in the late 70’s/early 80’s. The Cloverleaf hold is also a “show” hold. Traditional Catch relied very much on toe holds, the double wrist lock (“kimura”), compression holds (“bicep slicer”, called a Short Arm Scissors in Catch), and occasionally chokes and facelocks. The fancier, more complex holds were mostly for show.
Drunk fight at UFC 118 in Boston
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