When we watched the French Catch uncovered in 2020, I tried to capture gifs of unique holds, sequences, and character bits. I began posting them too early into this account so some are flagged, but if you start with the one below you can scroll back and forward to see/share them.

There's no shame in this, but plenty of indignity.

I truly believe that if wrestlers (incl. Claudio) sold/reacted more for US fans like this, the fans would start to respond accordingly, creating a cycle that would, over time, restore some of that lost social contract and make wrestling so much better. https://t.co/xNfqEYJMOr

Yumi Ikeshita with a very abrupt, clever way to hit a belly to back that you almost never see, reversing a whip but then pulling Nancy Kumi right back into it.

Gorilla press gutbuster. Just another day in 1959 France putting over a brand new masked monster.

This is the sort of signature bump that they name after you.

One thing I find sometimes with past-their-prime legend performances is that even when the match isn't necessarily all that good, they end up doing little things in the course of it that remind you of why they have their standing in the first place.

By 97, Roddy couldn't move like he once did, but watch the way he uses the ropes to sell and get across his struggle to get back to his feet and into the fight here.

People should drop what they're doing and go check out Eric's brilliant review of this long Jericho/Batista/Benoit vs Hunter/Flair/Jericho Australia house show match, by the way. It's exactly what you'd want from him given the circumstances. https://t.co/Hz84xJNE0L

Austin Gunn is a natural heel, the kind that can get under your skin even in 2025, but as a babyface, there's one thing that he's real, real good at. When the chips are down and hope seems so far away, Austin Gunn can reach.

Whoever you are (even if you're Masakatsu Funaki), whatever you do, whatever your skill, whatever your advantage, do not try to put Yoshiaki Fujiwara into a Boston Crab. That's it. That's the tweet.

French Catch, everyone.

The finish to this Steiners vs Barry Horowitz/Mike Hart match? Scott checking for signs of life.

Rick Steiner putting the "break" into clean break.

In wrestling, things matter over time, not just in the moment. Fans get conditioned. Wrestlers can earn/lose benefit of the doubt. I'm not 100% sure that Mox was actively selling the ankle here, but in the moment, because of his C2 selling, I saw that struggle and it moved me.

Life is going to throw things at you today. Let Mistico be your guide in how to deal with them.

This is how you get a monster over. He's staggered by the forearms but only slightly and then Leduc just drops like a brick when hit himself.

(That said, the scramble at the end was way better along these lines)

It took me out of the moment instead of drawing me in. I couldn't feel the character's pain. It didn't reach his soul or mine.

To me, this back-clutching was an unfortunate example of checkbox selling/"selling for the sake of selling". As executed, I didn't believe it was a consequence of the action. It didn't impact how he moved next. It didn't serve a story beat. It was what he was "supposed to do."

On one level this is obviously a joke, but when you stop and think about it, there’s a breadth to Taue that allows him to work something like this into a match to get a reaction and play to the story at hand that Misawa/Kawada at least wouldn’t be able to so naturally tap into.