Before MMA had rules, brands, or fame, there was Karl Gotch. 🥊🔥 Karl Gotch carried real catch-as-catch-can wrestling through one of the most corrupted eras of professional wrestling. A freestyle and Greco-Roman champion from Belgium, Gotch survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and still went on to compete in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He spent over a decade in Wigan, England mastering authentic catch wrestling, then refined his knowledge in the United States und