Dear Friends,
wanted to share this old French poster. It is a perfect example of wrong terminology!
The style of pro wrestling it shows is definitely not catch as catch can, but All-in wrestling for which a proper French term would be: LUTTE DE COMBAT.
But since in UK in the 1930s there was an All-in pro wrestling promotion and the brand called The XX Century Catch-as-catch-can in Continental Europe they started calling any All-in pro-wrestling match Catch! That is why nowadays many people are so confused about what actually Catch is, or better say was! And you hear all kind of nonsense about the 1930s, 40s, 50s and even 60s and 70s catch wrestlers from UK and other countries, lol. Hahahah!
GRECO-ROMAN PRO WRESTLING.
CATCH PRO WRESTLING (lol). - ALL IN WRESTLING/LUTTE DE COMBAT.
The term Catch was used in Germany and Austria until comparatively recently