British Folk Wrestling Styles

Trained by Dan Kanagie, anyone else here?

I’ve trained in BJJ. But from a couple of brief encounters with Catch wrestlers, I’ll admit that I think Catch is better. It’s harder to learn and not as practiced as BJJ, BUT it’s absolutely PAINFUL to be under a Catch wrestler riding you with his knee spearing into your gut and cranking on your neck the entire time. Brutal.

Excellent

Love catch thanks for this!

Jack "not the gentleman" Gallagher 😂

This is also the training Ground of the Great late British wrestler my idolized foothood hero Tommy Billington The Dynamite Kid

Praise Roy wood keeping the proud mighty tradition alive and strong praise catch as you can

Good thing for the Gracie's that one of these guys weren't invited to UFC 1.

MMA legend Sakuraba trained here.

Very cool

Pro wrestling ruined British mma! If catch wrestling was as mainstream as bjj, UK fighters would be a threat in mma, mixing their boxing with top notch submission wrestling

great video, great work

Billy Riley was my dad's uncle (he married my grans sister) - very interesting life and proud to be related.

Great

Thank you so much

The subtitles for this video are killing me

Pretty sure I’m related too billy Riley

Awesome.. where’s the rest of the video?

Where can I watch this, as the link doesn't seem to work or is broken?

Imagine if MMA or commission approved mixed style fights existed during the Billy Riley era of wrestling. Imo Catch Wrestlers wouldn’t have turned to Professional Wrestling for more money and CACC would still thrive today. Nowadays Gracie/Machado JiuJitsu rule the world.

This is beautiful. Thank you for this.

I'm going to go there one day, my dad lives not far from there.

You got one of the points wrong there, Marty Jones was taught by Billy Robinson not Billy Riley!

Please try and keep the history correct, I know that maybe a genuine error and if that's the case then I apologise, but history are facts

So Antonio Inoki is considered pretty good?He was tapping out A young Brock lesnar and
Other MMA, BJJ exponents.

I didn't know it was still there

Wonderful video.