CATCH AS CATCH CAN v ALL-IN

Hack good question, here's what I think and of course it is supported by the facts and my research. Since late 1870s and thru-out all 80s and 90s immigration of Lancashire wrestlers to the United States continued non-stop. But many of them didn't make it to the top of wrestling profession here in America, and had to return back to England. It was them who first introduced in Lancashire and actually in England the American 'count of 3 pin' system. Let's say Connor, who was very successful in the US, and yet was running back and forth between the Old Country and America, when back to England he always insisted on matches to be won on count of 3 pin, and not only that, he according to the American fashion wanted it to be only pinfalls, meaning Lancashire's flying falls and rolls do not count anymore. He became Americanized, if you will. Yet, in Owd Lankishire they still wurstled their way till probably early 1910s, when pro wrestling was exposed as being a "predetermined finish" sport nation-wide and slowly died out. In 1930 as we know another American import this time brought by a native of Austria called H. Irslinger found its spot on British soil under the name of ALL-IN RASSLIN.

He moved to Royton, Shaw Oldham areas, he had to if he wanted to improve his skill of a wrestler, because all the best coaches were all from there back when he was young. In fact the town of Oldham was heart of Lancashire pro wrestling industry since the very start, from the 1820s. Connors' mentor Abraham Travis aka Ab-o-Wags was also Oldhamite.

Thanks for your question Peter, appreciate. The Jim Parr interviews are from 1901, it's when he came to the United States and was trying to adopt American catch wrestling rules according to which the match is decided by the count of 3 back fall i.e. pinfall, unlike in his native Lancashire where the back fall is a quick touch-fall, and any kind of such back falls counted as Parr said whether they were flying, rolling or pin falls. The Tom Connor interview is his last interview, it is from 1935.