David Mantell

A full hour of 5 bouts. Pretty good considering Old Catch, back in the day, was often a single standalone 30 minute tag match (the FR3 broadcast back in February having complied with this format.)

Hang on, isn't that the name of the FR3 sports show that transmitted the Parmentier Brothers Vs Rockys Du Ring back in February 1991? That's what the caption slide said on the video.

How did they cope? What are the sources of footage for the period? If any? Just curious

Apparently Shreeve was actually married at one point and his ex wife took him to the cleaners (sadly not literally)

Mariano is the guy with the moustache at 5ge start but that's not a lot of help as most of this is in longshot. We see a longshot of one guy (hard to tell them apart) taking some high whips very nicely and rolling through on them. One guy gets a backdrop, side headlock into hiptoss, both guys bridge up into rear snapmares. One guy gets a standing full nelson but the other breaks free and rides him tomthe mat. One guy has an armbar and the other uses a cartwheel to untwist it the a headscissors counter but not in the French style, more like catching it as he goes over with the cartwheel. We see one guy gets an armhank and I think a submission. Again, the 'tache is our man but it's hard to pick him out. One guy does a magnificent double underhook suplex. There is a rear arm hank and a headscissors. A top wristlock into armscissors and then rolling to throw him man in the armscissors. An attempted folding press converted into a Boston Crab attempt and a crawl out counter. A snapmare. Two bridge ups into snapmares. A throw into an armstrtch pin.

I'm not sure if this guy was at all related to Javier or Victorio but here we go anyway

Talking of Gilbert, here he is in Madrid against L'Ange Blanc, Fifties French TV's favourite on a homecoming visit. I've posted this to the French thread. The commentator calls Gilbert one of the greatest technical wrestling artists around. We see Gilbert resisting pin attempts from first a folding press by Ange then a crosspress with his arm trapped in the hammerlock position. Ange gets an armhank and we all know what Gilbert's counter to that was. And yea verily the Madrid crown get to see a toupie - and mutter to themselves that Victorio Ochoa used to do that. We see Ange with a headscissors and Gilbert with a side chancery on the mat. Ange rakes Gilbert down with a hammerlock. And scores with a scissor chop which apparently gets him the Knockout win to defend his title.

Mercifully it's in Castilian rather than Catalan ( I expect if it was in Catalan, the Guardia Civil would have paid a visit, funny hats and drawn truncheons aplenty) According to Wikipedia , as late as 1970 they filled out a 13K venue in Castellón de la Plana in Valencia in the East/Southeast and did pretty well in the 15K capacity Murcia down near the eastern end of Andalusia, the last time in 1975.

Someone please point out to Alessio that this was NOT French Catch. (He's put it in the Catch Français 1970-1987 playlist).

Okay. a quick one as the tablet is on 26% and I want to get out. Roch gets a side headlock. Singh straightens it out into an armbar and Roach rolls forward and takes the bump. Gil keeps the guard wristlock. Pat gets up and gets half a headlock as Singh still has his wrist. Singh powers him down but Pat, impressively for a man of his size, goes into a bridge and turns on his skull into a forward kneel. Finally he gets an armbar of his own. Singh can actually properly roll through. Roach forces him down but instead of the cross press turns him sideways, trying for a shoulder submission. He does eventually try a pin but Singh has an arm up at 1 so he switches to a side chinlock. Singh reverses it into his own armbar, right against the joint notes Kent. Gil switches to armhank. Roach turns into the guard. Singh gets a finger Interlock and a 1 count. Roach bridges up, powers all the way upright, picks off one side of the interlock with a foot and uses the other side for a high whip, forcing Singh in turn to take a somersault bump. Roach has his shoulder submission back again. he adds a leg around Singh's neck. Singh resists long enough for Roach to drop it. They exchange forearms, a Singh headbutt and a Roach bodycheck. Roach gets a posting and slam and hits the ropes but Singh strikes with a sudden cross buttock and press pinfall. 4min 35 secs of a 15 min time limit. Short and leveragy but it still contained more skill and ideas than Max Le Méchant had on the German thread just now (poor old Franzl!)

Apparently it said Max Le MERCHANT on event programmes for this show, PMSL. (If you're not aware from the French Catch thread, un Méchant is a heel). At least the ring announcer gets it right.) Max comes to the ring dressed for the Australian Outback. Franzl comes down to the tune of No Limits by 2 Unlimited in the tradition of German babyfaces' affinity for rave music (see Alex Wright and Dave Taylor.) No national anthems although they have a flag each. That man Didier Gapp refereeing again. Round 1 starts off very American, clotheslines, running the ropes, the odd duck down or flying tackle from Schumann. Holds are held onto for long periods with little indication especially from Max of any escape plan. Franz gets a Scorpion Deathlock on (the remnants of his alleged Bret Hart tribute a couple of years earlier, but the bell goes. Round 2 Max armdrags Franz down into an armlock in the guard and keeps him there a good long while. Franz gets up (not kips up) so Max armdrags him back down. I dislike the term Rest Holds but that is what they are being used for with little or no struggle or sign of an oncoming counter/reversal. Eventually even Franz gets fed up and does some rolls, reverse rolls and scoots across the middle turnbuckle á la Tony Stewart. He slowly hiptosses Max into a cross press as the bell goes. Max complains to Didi a lot. He's a much better crowd worker than he is a ring wrestler. Round 3 Franz gets a legdive toe and ankle, leans into i5 and goes down on the mat. Max goes for hair grabs but Didi stops him. Max somehow gets out and uses punches headbutts and eye rakes.Some people ringside are blowing on party poppers. Max does a Japanese Stranglehold and manages to convert it to chinlock even when Franz throws him twice. Franz converts a corner assisted backdrop into a suplex. Franz gets a headscissors when the bell goes. Round 4. Max corners Franz and pounds him. More Max heelish beatdowns including a rope choke. Max finally gets a Yellow Card. Franz boots him down for a 7 count. They slug and punch some more. Not much more happening when the bell goes. Round 5. Max throws Franz out and looks very pleased with himself. He tries to backdrop Franz in but Schumann lands well, hits the ropes. Slips backwards through Max's legs, tries to get a bodyscissors but Max counters with a Boston Crab attempt. AND NOOOW, THE FINISH AS BOOKED!: Max pulls Franz up and goes for a whip but Franz gets a crucifix takedown into further nelson pin and wins. Slow, sometimes stationary bout. Max has a cute gimmick (Brian 'Crush" Adams dressed up as Barry Windham circa The Stalker) but he works like an American By Numbers.

What a gruesome thought! 😄

Swimming pool shows were commonplace in France

We've seen Jeff Kaye quite a bit lately as a referee. We've seen him and Ian Gilmour tagging up as the Barons in both Britain and France. We've seen him sort out villains from Pancho Zapata in 1969 to Mike Bennet in 1985. Recently I saw him in Stampede. Calgary, commentating an early British Bulldogs match (No I'm not posting the video here but it's the new "Iconic Tag Teams' Debuts" video on the WWE Vault channel.). He was out there playing Tim White to Giant Haystacks when not refereeing, MCing or TV commenting. Now here he is having a top class clean match against another top class technician. Round 1: Cortez gets a full nelson but Kaye throws him off and gets an in the guard wristlock. Cortez kips up and gets dragged back down. He tries again and Kaye armdrags him back down. Sideways moves don't work either. After the next kip up. Cortez side chanceries Kaye but Kaye takes his man with him and retains the hold. He tries it again but as Kent Walton points out, he is only hurting himself and will have to think of something else "and knowing Cortez he probably will.". He's right. Cortez drops to the mat, switches hands and armdrags Kaye to take over control. Kaye kips up, cartwheels and whips Cortez who also cartwheels to avoid the bump and come out upright. They go for a full finger Interlock and both get a short arm scissor and both agree to call it stalemate and break up . Cortez gets a side headlock and takes his man to the mat. Kaye tries to break it with an atomic drop but Cortez hangs on. Kaye in the end handstands his way out of the hold. Cortez armdrags Kaye for a 5 count. Kaye gets a wristlever but the bell goes and he releases. Round 2: Cortez gets a single legdive. Kaye undermines Cortez's leg so he goes down and converts it into a seated leglock. Kaye turns into the mount so Cortez makes it a single toe hold. He lifts Kaye by the foot, trying to smash his knee into the mat but Kaye pushes up then rolls forwards and away. Kaye tries a cross buttock throw but Cortez arrests his momentum with a side headlock then a hiptoss of his own. Cortez now has the guard wristlock. Kaye rolls back and tenses his arm to resist a hammerlock attempt. He twice goes up on his head and the second time looks to be trying a toupie but instead gets a headscissors. Cortez easily snaps out. He backrolls off a half finger Interlock so Kaye rolls away. Kaye gets a Fireman's Carry takedown into armlock with bar. Cortez rolls from the guard to the kneeling position then upright but Kaye still has a wristlever. He rolls forward and spins horizontally on his backside till he takes down Kaye into an armbar in the mount. He turns him over into the crosspress and only gets a one before being thrown on to the ring apron! Back in, he gets a double finger Interlock into a double leg Nelson. It turns into La Bascule (back and forth double leg nelsons), occasionally turning sideways rather than just back and forth. They give that up and try another finger Interlock and Kaye makes a drop toehold of it, ending in a figure 4 legscissor. They turn into a seating position but end up too close for an American figure four leglock so break (for once untying the legs without referee assistance. Cortez gets a rear waistlock into full nelson, bounces Kaye off the ropes, drops down to trip him into a folding press but Kaye sidesteps out of the way. Cortez gets an armbar and has Kaye in the guard again. Kaye tries to bridge his way out so Cortez turns him sideways, maintaining pressure on the upper arm. Kaye gets a headscissors but Cortez kips out quickly. They lock up and hit the ropes as the bell sounds. Round 3 Kaye gets a headlock and takes it to kneeling position. Cortez upturns it into a side folding press but Kaye uprights it. Kaye gets another handstanding escape and a beauty like the last! Cortez throws Kaye who cartwheels out of trouble nicely. Kaye leapfrogs Cortez and goes for a flip. Cortez tries to clamp down with a front folding press but Kaye throws him off and when Cortez rolls back from the armstrtch he in turn clams down for a folding press balancing on his elbows instead of bridging. It gets him the opening fall. Round 4. Kaye tries for a leg but Cortez darts over him to get a headlock. Kaye slips out the back to make it a hammerlock. Cortez turns into the guard straightening the arm and Kaye gets 1 before Cortez throws him off the crosspress. Cortez gets a wrist into an armdrag, Kaye gets a headscissors and has it more firmly than earlier tries as Cortez cannot just kip out. He struggles to force the clamp open, goes into upright position and a handstand but can't maintain it. He tries again, turns 90' in the scissors and now falls out of the hold. Cortez gets a front chancery but Kaye straightens the arm , high whips his man till he bumps into the guard and gets the same guard wristlock on again. Cortez goes up into the headstand and this time he is the one who gets the headscissors. Kaye has similar difficulties snapping out to those Cortez had but goes into a bridge, flimps back and forth between kneeling and bridging and so weakens the hold that he can, finally, kip out. Cortez again goes for the front chancery, Kaye again straightens the arm and goes for the night whip but Cortez rolls up nicely. Kaye offers a handshake. And Cortez accepts then tries to make a throw of it but Kaye cartwheels out. Fortunately he is a good sport about this but of mischief. Kaye throws Cortez who cartwheels upright but bangs his neck on the rope but luckily it is nothing serious. Kaye gets a single leg, they agree to break it up but as they do Cortez tries a crafty drop toehold. Max Ward will have none of it. Cortez backrolls off a half finger Interlock, bringing Kaye to his knees. He takes Kaye down into a ground top double wristlock, resisting Kaye's attempts to push up until Kaye gets a headscissors. Cortez turns into the front position, gets a headstand and lays his legs against Kaye's head. The weight overbalances Kaye and Cortez gets up and makes his escape. Cortez gets a legdive and toe & ankle hold. Kaye crosses his leg to make a figure four. This tempts Cortez to try to set up an Indian Deathlock but Kaye turns into the mount and rolls away. Cortez gets a foot and switches to a wrist and again spins horizontally on his behind to wind up the arm. He then switches to a drop toehold and thence into a Frank Gotch figure four toehold, switching from side to side. He pulls up Kaye by the leg but Kaye rolls away and the bell goes. Round 5 and Kaye gets a side headlock into cross buttock and press. Kaye turns sideways and gets a side folding press for 1. He stands in the side headlock and leaps into a high almost headstand (more horizontal) to pull out. Kaye gets a full nelson. Cortez reverses. He holds on despite being backed into twice and lifted forward in a throw attempt. Forcing the hold open doesn't work but a side turning throw does, only for Cortez to reach up and get a headscissors. Kaye turns it upright, escapes and even gets a leg out of it but hits the ropes and has to break. Cortez gets an armdrag but Kaye headscissors him so Cortez goes into his usual headstand. He gets out and tries for the leg but Ward says it's not part of the same move, so he gets a wrist and slings Kaye into the ropes, hiptosses and cross presses him on the rebound and gets the equaliser. Round 6: Cortez throws Kaye (whom Walton thinks is developing back problems) into a hard bump on his back. He is up at 7 but still selling his back. Cortez gets an over the knee backbreaker and Kaye bridges to relieve the pressure. Kaye uses an inner arm blow - about the first striking move of the bout - to get out. Cortez gets a half nelson but Kaye uses a forearm smash over the head. Kaye gets a rear snapmare and cross buttock throw but Cortez rolls upright and catches Kaye's incoming flying bodyscissors attempt by the legs, turns him into a full Boston Crab and gets the deciding submission. Cortez is the winner 2-1 on a late rally. Not the fastest or most dazzling but still nice stylish scientific bout with Kaye showing what a skilled wrestler he was in his day and Cortez getting to show more flair and colour than he does against the likes of Keith Hayward. Even if the wristlock in the guard is overplayed by both men, they find plenty of ways to try to escape and plenty more to prevent said escapes.

Otto Wanz at the Bremen Stadhalle, winning his CWA title the fourth and final time. There are two different versions - this one was shot by S4C's Reslo production team and later put out on home video in Germany. The commentary was then redubbed into English by original Welsh commentators Bryn Fon and Orig Williams. It starts with the late 80s/early 90s Reslo theme and has Reslo style graphics all over it. Otto cuts a bilingual promo in German/English . Vader cuts a promo in much the same style as later in WCW, with manager Orig Williams chipping in now and again. This of course creates a problem. Since Orig is on screen as a heel manager, his dual role as a commentator is explained away by his voice being that of Paco Perez , a former All Americas champion from South America apparently. Otto is accompanied by Tony StClair and Steve Wright. The MC is Peter Wilhelm, Otto's business partner in the CWA and years later the German commentator on Eurosport New Catch. As with the Santí Rico Vs Acapulco bout on Spanish TV, there is a lot of waiting around a while while national anthems etc (Austria get played. The Star Strangled Banner GETS THE BIRD!!! Deutschland Deutscland Uber Alles gets the pyro treatment courtesy of fans with sparklers at ringside. It's very much a slug and punch affair, I'm sure @ohtani's jacket will love it. Bull Power gets most of the early action. He eventually settles down into an abdominal stretch oin the mat hen the bell lotto fights back, getting a single leg Boston Crab and pitching the soon to be Vader to ringside for a brawl. The round 2 bell saves Bull from a 10 count at 8. Watch out in Round three for A VADER DOING A SUNSET FLIP INTO DOUBLE LEG NELSON!!! Otto is bleeding badly through most of these early rounds. It's like watching a worked boxing match like Mr T versus Roddy Piper with its clear periods of dominance. Otto gets a suplex on Vader in Round 4. In Round 5 , Big Leon gets a Randy Savage axehandle on Otto. They brawl at ringside with a table involved in proceedings. Another KO count is dodged by the bell going off. Otto himself breaks up one promising g KO count to inflict more punishment but the next one he lets run its course to win the title by KNOCKOUT. The crowd go wild. Just for the record, here is the German version made apparently separately from the S4C Version:

Since we're talking Eurosport, here's a fairly important match from its run. Presented in two language options, English and German. Herodes came from Mexico. We've already seen him in tag team action against Flesh Gordon, now they go at it solo. Herodes wears a Demolition style face mask not far removed from Cybernic Machine the next decade. He has a big barrel cheered Remy Bayle/Bearman John Elijah physique. Flesh is still in shape at this stage but he's pretty much a full heavyweight who could get work in America with a build like that. In shor5, one can expect a very strength based match. So it's no surprise when Herodes gets the standing full nelson easily. Even when Flesh breaks the clamp, Herodes turns it into a rear waistlock. Flesh breaks on side and converts the other arm to a standing back hammerlock . That's two transitions already. Herodes uses his other arm to coral in Flesh's head for a side Headlock. And it doesn't stop there, Flash pulling open the headlock to mak3 a top wristlock but Herodes throwing him to the ground, assisted by a naughty hair pull. Herodes gets a wristlever and forces Flesh to the ground with it. But Flesh kips up, spins 180 degrees and armdrags Herodes - who ironically complains about a hairpull. Herodes begins knocking Flesh about, headbutts him tomthe mat, chokes him on the ropes. hammerlocks him around the top rope (a public warning offence in Britain.) Flesh rallied, trips Herodes twice, cross buttocks him and dropkicks him but misses a second one. He gets the wrist in the guard again but Flesh throws him across the ring. He hooks his feet on the ropes to prevent a fall to ringside but Flesh turns him off and his back hits the floor. Herodes sits in a ringside seat and sells it while Flesh poses for the crowd. Flesh in the ring and Herodes outside shout abuse at each other. The big Mexican makes it back, pounds on Flesh's background headbutts him, flings him out and follows him outside where the two brawl, Herodes getting an H&S in an aisleway. Gordon reversing a ringside posting, Flesh smashes Herodes head in the ring apron. Flesh, back in the ring, is the one who gets the blame, picking up an Avertisement. He gets the pinfall with a leapover into armdrag into cross press for the one required pinfall to win the match. Afterwards Herodes complains and Flesh celebrates with some young kids. Strength with some remaining agility from lighter days versus pure strength. Some good surprising moves from Herodes. And I think OJ will like the ringside brawl Funny bit- on the English commentary, Orig Williams calls Les Pieux "Les Poos".

2h 30min 10 secs in there is a mention of researchers going to Zambia a few years ago to search for Doctor Who episodes and instead finding loads of British Wrestling. ( @Dav'oh see, it WAS being sold all over Africa/Asia) I've left a comment requesting more information.

And here they go They also offer to try it out on the presenter but he sensibly wimps out.

Bejar and Adell on a TV chat show some time in the early 90s, possibly to promote the same 90s show I posted but they also discuss the old days and the fad for American wrestling at the time. A large vintage wrestling poster from the old days is put on display. It says "Catch" on it, by the way. (Although another one I shown which says Lucha.)The boys also say Catch A Cuatro a lot which is a literal French to Spanish translation of Catch À Quatre. Bejar shows off what looks like blading scars. At the end, the boys take their tops off to do some moves on each other.

Commentator does mention this in the 1986 match. The bit in the midget match where he marches round (with Puma in a headlock) singing the Laurel and Hardy theme song out of tune comes from French school playgrounds. (Grown ups do it too when very drunk.)

I'm leaning more towards the idea that the promotion itself may have been doing as you say but the wrestlers were free to accept work anywhere they darn well choosy. I base this on the point that (at least) three of the four, including one entire tag team, showed up on New Catch at one point or another.

There are only photos of Javier in this but we get a definite taste of Victoria's style. Irish whipped to the mat, he is able to pick himself upright at arm's length, an ancestor of the British-style roll through. He gets a beautiful slide into a standing Fireman's Carry takedown on one of these whips. He gets the pin by upturning a long press. Later we see him get a face bar from behind a dona front somersault into a bridge to wrench on the opponent's neck. We see more of Ochoa's proto rollout of armlever (albeit in longshot) Ochoa takes on the headbutt king. Tarres. Most of this is already featured in the Leones de Navarra clip. clip but looks out for Victorio doing a toupie out of headscissors well before Gilbert Leduc hit the scene. More source footage for the Leones de Navarra mini docu. See Ochoa neatly kip up after being forearm smashes down by his opponent. He goes for and almost gets a legdive right across the ring, corner to corner. He rolls back from an arm at on the mat to get a ground dropkick. He also gets an Indian Deathlock and a double leg nelson pin attempt.

I've been rewatching the LaCroix Vs de Lonzac bout and Orig Williams says in the English commentary that Pouzade was not Eric's manager. just his tag partner (which further fits him being Domingo Valdez) and Miss Paris being the actual manageress. I'd quite like to see in full the tag match Caradec was complaining about in that promo (there is a short snippet).

You'd love the Americanised New School promotions in Britain - always telling the same old lie that British wrestling "Died" in 1981 and that they are The Great Renaissance. Then a few months later, they keel over while All Star just goes on and on for decades. One unanswered question about New Catch is how the flame was kept alive for the concept over the course of 1989 and 1990 between the two blocks of episodes filmed. There was hardly a lack of other new wrestling shows in Europe during the period - Catch Up on RTL, Reslo on S4C, ITV's Aberdeen taping on Grampian and STV (and later Granada) and of course the above return to FR3. Yet during this glut, New Catch found its way back.

So anyway, the bout. There's about 5 min of studio preamble in a studio set with storage draws and various trophies, footballs and other bric-a-brac that make it look like a 1970s episode of British infants' TV show Play School. As Matt mentioned, the presenter goes on about the Good Old Days so presumably this is either a one-off or a first with possibilities (possibly squashed by New Catch resurfacing on Eurosport.) It's an unashamedly retro presentation like the 1990 Aberdeen ITV taping, the 1998 VDB video, Premier Promotions' merch table VHS tapes from Worthing Pier Pavillion (examples have been posted to the British thread) and perhaps most pertinently, the show in the tiny room from somewhere in Paris 2096 I posted clips from to this thread a couple of years ago. So yes, Matt. there is life after this for this sort of show. Except for the lack of cords halfway down the ropes, the ring looks like a late 70s/early 80s relic, exactly like the ones on La Dernière Manchette in fact with the red ropes and dull green mat. (If the INA ever does chroma recovery on its prints of late 60s/early 70s Channel 2 bouts. expect a lot of those rings to be that same colour combination.) The venue is a sports hall with basketball hoops and climbing bars in the background but happily the lighting rig is properly focussed on the ring. Yes, that's the same nice red sequin jacket LaMotta/Daniel is wearing as on New Catch. Michel has a nice spangly jacket too, in Cyan with matching trunks. Les Rocky's, as Méchants, are both in black. Curiously the fans give them a big pop. LaCroix is the youngest by far and very much the star turn despite his Mr Spock hairdo. He bumps around for the elderly Bons taking their side chancery throws, cross buttock throws etc. He leg throws Daniel (I must remember not to call him Tony LaMotta for this one) who spins out nicely- he hasn't lost it. Valdez does the same for Daniel. Hilariously the commentator calls a dropkick (saus chassé) a flying headscissors (Scisseaux Volees) ! Michel rolls nicely out of and up from Domingo's throws while Domingo takes a bump when the tables are turned. Michel does huracanranas - somebody has been watching Scott Steiner on WCW! At one point we see Michel go up in the air and it's in excessive close up so it looks like he's going for a reverse snapmare but he comes back down the way he went up and bulldogs Valdez down back into a side headlock on the mat. When Eric gets back, he is getting real heat, not like the cheer at the start. He flexes his biceps a lot. an odd thing for a Welterweight to do. LaCroix kicks out of a crosspress and lands Daniel on top of Monsieur L'Arbitre. The second time it happens, Daniel gets a public warning. Other than this, the referee stays away from trying to be the heel. Things slow down with Valdez in the ring, he gets an armbar in the guard and uses fouls to keep him there, eventually gets a bunch of Manchettes for his troubles. Eric carries on with the arm work on Daniel, he and Michel have a pretty good top wristlock battle. Michel and Domingo end up outside with the Spaniard giving a ringside fan a lapdance . The two brawl outside the ring. Eric headstands out of the headscissors on a second attempt and gives Daniel a hearty slap across the face. Michel makes the hot tag, throwing the heels around before scoring the opening fall with a sunset flip mm double leg nelson despite protests from Eric. Daniel does a promo while standing on the tag rope on the apron, just as Les Méchants are double legdiving Michel and kicking his knees in in stereo. Despite all this, Les Bons get a Deuxième Et Derniere Avertisement. They flirt with a DQ after making a pile of villains and ref. Michel goes for a finger Interlock but Eric snatches away like Adrian Street and pouts lie Ada too. LaCroix gets a GREAT equaliser with a long suplex. Fans give it The Bird (ouch my ears!). Michel gives a mid match promo calling it Epouvantable. Domingo kicks him in the back midway. We are past 30 mins of the clip and La Belle is only a few minutes long. Very French Catch and can aspect of match structure @ohtani's jacket complains about in the old reviews. Daniel gets a combination flying headscissors and flying headlock on both heels sending them both flying. He gets a great flying bodypress on Eric, beautifully filmed but it only gets a 2. A reverse leapfrog into front folding press finally does the job. Yup that's about 3 mins of belle. Daniel does another in ring. We get the credits over a soca track and match highlights before back to the studio and the presenter calling wrestlers Grandes Voltigeurs. (Great High Flyers.) Fast action packed bout but little in the way of chain sequences. Moves tend to be isolated spots unto themselves. I DEFINITELY feel LaCroix deserved better than putting over two old guys. Eurosport New Catch and the French Welterweight Championship gave him that opportunity and the chance to work with other rising stars like Yann Caradec and Jean Phillipe De Lonzac.