Harry Francis Smith is a Canadian professional wrestler and catch wrestler, currently competing under the ring name Davey Boy Smith Jr. He currently performs for Major League Wrestling, where he is a two-time Opera Cup winner and former MLW World Tag Team Champion. He is known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), where he was a three-time NWA World Tag Team Champion; and New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he was a former IWGP Tag Team Champion as part of the Killer Elite Squad with Lance Archer.
Smith in 2011
When Smith signed with WWE, he trained in Florida Championship Wrestling, where he won the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship
The Hart Dynasty (from left to right) Tyson Kidd, Natalya, and Smith as the WWE Tag Team Champions in August 2010
Smith locks Fit Finlay into the Sharpshooter in November 2011
Catch wrestling is a classical hybrid grappling style and combat sport. It was popularised by wrestlers of travelling funfairs who developed their own submission holds, or "hooks", into their wrestling to increase their effectiveness against their opponents. Catch wrestling derives from various different international styles of wrestling including several English styles. The training of some modern submission wrestlers, professional wrestlers and mixed martial artists is founded in catch wrestling.
Catch wrestling
A hammerlock as demonstrated in Farmer Burns' correspondence course, 1913
Catch (or Freestyle retroactively) wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Professional match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt, 1908