Trivia / Karl Gotch

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Though modern catch wrestling advocates prefer call the Kimura lock "double wrist lock" to keep its original roots (very much like Georges Mehdi and hardcore judoka prefer "gyaku ude garami"), Gotch actually called it a Kimura lock, probably because he was friends with Kimura.
• Doing It for the Art: In his last years he taught Catch Wrestling for free to anyone who could first pass and maintain his conditioning requirements. Unfortunately, there weren't many who could.
• What Could Have Been: According to Masanobu Fuchi, Gotch could have been invited to wrestle for All Japan Pro Wrestling in the 1982 World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament, with Billy Robinson as a potential partner. Gotch apparently even agreed to do it as he was already out of his contract with New Japan Pro-Wrestling, but it didn’t happen since Gotch was basically a symbol for New Japan and would be very difficult to book.