What became modern Americal folkstyle/collegiate wrestling was Catch or, more accurately, the modern style is amateur Catch. There were other wrestling styles in North America brought over from Europe. Greco Roman (actually a French style despite its name) was pretty popular as well as some styles brought over from the British Isles, like side-hold wrestling and collar-and-elbow wrestling- in many of these styles, as the names indicate, wrestlers began their match with a specific grip on the opponent's body, while, as the name suggests, in Catch-As-Catch-Can, there was no pre-set grip that was used before the start of the match, so the wrestlers had to "catch" hold of their opponent any way they could.
You just answered the ever ending question of what Catch is. Thank you
The submission moves were taken out of amateur wrestling so before this was wrestling just Catch Wrestling? What were the takedowns?
What became modern Americal folkstyle/collegiate wrestling was Catch or, more accurately, the modern style is amateur Catch.
There were other wrestling styles in North America brought over from Europe. Greco Roman (actually a French style despite its name) was pretty popular as well as some styles brought over from the British Isles, like side-hold wrestling and collar-and-elbow wrestling- in many of these styles, as the names indicate, wrestlers began their match with a specific grip on the opponent's body, while, as the name suggests, in Catch-As-Catch-Can, there was no pre-set grip that was used before the start of the match, so the wrestlers had to "catch" hold of their opponent any way they could.