CATCH Ghetto Wrestling is about FUN, not FIGHTING.
It is a spectacle where creativity in costume and character is more important than wrestling ability.
The character you create, the aura you project, and the show you put on are the things that will show your true might to the audience. The fact that your opponent will wipe you out in a second doesn’t matter - the image of your glorious character will already be burnt into the brains of your new fans!
- RULES -
CATCH Ghetto Wrestling has the same rules as normal wrestling - three falls, three submissions, or a knock-out - but we would like to avoid knock-outs if possible. It’s no fun sitting in a hospital in pink lycra and a leopard skin cape!
A fall - This is when your opponent pins both your shoulders to the floor while the referee counts to three
A submission - This is when your opponent has you in a hold you can’t escape from, and you have to submit (admit defeat)
A knock-out - This is when your opponent knocks you unconcious and your friends have to take you to hospital. No fun!
Depending on time restraints, matches may be judged on only two or even one fall, one submission, or a knockout. This will be made clear by the referee before the start of each match.
CATCH Ghetto Wrestling matches are not divided into rounds. The battle continues until their is a winner or both wrestlers drop from exhaustion.
Other rules:
A costume is essential. No costume, no wrestling!
Please ensure your costume is free of sharp objects (eg, studded belts, rings, etc) that could injure your opponent. Costumes can feature these things but you will be required to remove them before you are allowed to fight.
No weapons - comedy weapons that are unable to cause any real harm are allowed, if the wrestlers costume/character supports their use (eg, if the wrestler is dressed as a Red Indian and carries a foam rubber tomahawk)
No shoes in the ring - if a pair of thigh length boots complete your costume, great, but you will be required to remove them before battle commences.
Nudity is allowed, but if this is your costume you must wear a mask and cover your genitalia - exposed genitals give you an unfair advantage over a fully clad opponent. Should your genitals become exposed DURING combat the match will be allowed to continue.
No kicking
No biting
No hair pulling
No punching
No blows beneath the belt
No heavy petting
No eye-poking
No gouging
No spitting
No sexual assault
Just good, clean grappling, pushing, shoving, tripping, holds, arm locks, judo throws, verbal abuse, crowd-baiting, manical laughing, etc etc
The referees decision is final
Each wrestler is allowed to have a trainer, a manager, cheerleaders, medical team, spiritual adviser, lawyer, mother, etc present for support/first aid/to hold their drink while they get their grapple on! Signature fight tunes encouraged
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→ 30 Aug 11 at 9 am
→ 30 Aug 11 at 9 am
Apartment Wrestling
Photographer Theo Ehret’s fabulous archives have been dug up by artists Cameron Jamie and Mike Kelley and brought together for the first time in publication. Not only will you see the most famous wrestlers of the 60s and 70s in action, but you’ll learn all about a sub-genre of pro wrestling known as “apartment wrestling.”
Pitting voluptuous bikini-clad women against one another in a staged photography set, apartment wrestling is what many a male fantasy is made of, and there is no better way to appreciate the merits of this unique and rare “sport” than in the classic photographs of Theo Ehret.
Exquisite Mayhem, Taschen.
→ 30 Aug 11 at 9 am
Intergender Wrestling Devised by Mel Brimfield
Hosted by Sir Francis Spalding
Featuring Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Tony Law, Joanna Neary, Josie Long, Oompah Brass, Helen Lederer, Isy Suttie, Rachel Pantechnicon, The Beaux Belles & referee Tim Wells
Fascinated by kayfabe, the elaborate staged nature of professional wrestling, ambiguous comedian Andy Kaufman gained notoriety for wrestling women during his live act, proclaiming himself the Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World. Taking on an outrageous wrestling persona, based on the characters created by professional fighters, he would offer any woman in the crowd $1000 if they could pin him.
Mel Brimfield’s Intergender Wrestling re-visits this unique collision of sport and performance art.
Athlete, provocateur and occasional comedian Simon Munnery takes up Kaufman’s role, challenging for the title of undisputed Inter-Gender Wrestling World Champion. Munnery will be bringing it to the ring, and by ‘it’ he means ‘ladies’. From the crowd. To wrestle. Hosted by commentator, raconteur, bon viveur Sir Francis Spalding.
