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A form of submission wrestling influenced by catch wrestling, freestyle wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo, and sambo, UWW Grappling allows various submission holds which replace the pin/fall from wrestling. These submission moves can be applied to force opponents to concede by "tapping out" or verbally submitting to the referee. [1]
A wrestler with strong legitimate mat-wrestling abilities and an array of match-ending (or in extreme cases, career ending) holds known as "hooks", hence the name. [1] Primarily a holdover from the days where professional wrestling had to maintain kayfabe , a hooker would be used against a local non-wrestler brawler to enhance the belief that ...
A powerbomb is a professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted (usually so that they are sitting on the wrestler's shoulders) and then slammed back-first down to the mat. [1] The standard powerbomb sees an opponent first placed in a standing headscissors position (bent forward with their head placed between the attacking wrestler ...
On Friday, wrestling matches will begin at 10 a.m. and run until roughly 7 p.m. Saturday features all placing matches with wrestling starting at 10 a.m. The championship round will commence at 3 p.m.
The fall-forward version of the move were both used by Billy Gunn as the One & Only and later popularized by Ted DiBiase Jr., who used a modified version in which he dropped the opponent to one side, naming it the Dream Street. Jinder Mahal currently uses the kneeling side slam version of this move, calling it the Khallas.
One wrestler (usually the larger one) places an opponent over their shoulders in the fireman's carry position while the other attacking wrestler runs and jumps up alongside both and takes hold or twists the neck of the opponent for any type of neckbreaker slam, as the first wrestler falls down to the mat, forcing the opponent down with them in ...
The Boston crab is a professional wrestling hold that typically starts with one wrestler lying in a supine position on the mat, with the other wrestler standing and facing them. It is a type of spinal lock where the wrestler hooks each of the opponent’s legs in one of their arms and then turns the opponent face-down, stepping over them in the ...
A rules system for such competition was devised by professional wrestling champion and catch wrestling coach Karl Gotch for fellow catch wrestler Jake Shannon's "King of Catch" tournaments [14] and similar rules were employed for a 2018 tournament in memory of professional wrestling champion and catch wrestling coach Billy Robinson.