So, there’s American wrestling, there’s Lucha, there’s Japanese. What other styles exist?
So, there’s American wrestling, there’s Lucha, there’s Japanese. What other styles exist?
So, there’s American wrestling, there’s Lucha, there’s Japanese. What other styles exist?
British/European professional wrestling has some distinctiveness, but seems to be very similar to the American version in many respects.
UK grappling (“All-In”) has a distinctive history but in the 90s it basically got blended into mainstream American-style wrestling. Though, you get a lot of technical wrestlers out of the UK still.
Watch some World of Sport stuff on youtube though (anything with Rollerball Rocco will be worth it!). The match parameters for British wrestling from the 50s through the 90s are really interesting from a modern perspective, and create a very different pace of a match.
Canadian has a style
What’s Canadian like?
Historically? Greco Roman is the most famous and imp the most badass is old German, which used shields with spear tips built in
Specifically modern pro wrestling.
Japan is all strikes and holds, right? Like, very realistic?
My understanding is that Canadian pro wrestling is very similar to American. However, Stu Hart’s legacy casts a long shadow over Canadian style wrestling, and since his focus was on more technical ring-work and submission holds, many Canadian wrestlers follow suit — especially since so many of them were trained by him in his infamous “Dungeon”.
What Isaac Sher said. The main difference to me, is that “American style”, to me, was always more about showmanship than technical styles.
(tapping the brakes because I’m sensitive to this kind of stuff: educating is fine and rad, let’s try not to get too smarky and well actually-y though!)
The Hart Dungeon seems to have a lot of similarities to the Wiggan “Snake Pit” in the UK. I don’t know if there were any actual ties – but both were basically run by shoot wrestlers who trained in a very technical style, and they directly trained and thus influenced a whole generation of technically strong wrestlers in Canada and Britain.
My apologies, I wasn’t trying to go for a smarky tone.
(everyone is good! just seeing the potential)
I appreciate your experience in this, Justin Phillips ! It is totally true that NJPW does not equal all Japanese wrestling.
As I’ve been trying to parse things for the supplement, though, I’ve found Strong Style in particular to be a good place to locate special new rules, especially since the + Work stat is actually a little under-utilized in the basic game. The Kings Road stuff, comedy stuff and death matches are basically covered already, IMO, though I think I do have an even more injurious Death Match stipulation outlined somewhere in my notes.