Chuck appears in yellow trunks, John in blue. This is a pro match, but both appear barefoot.. This is a classic battle of pro lightweights. John is 5'7”, 135#. Collins is 5'8”, 145#. Collins soon realizes that he has one hell of a challenge on his hands as he goes down in the first fall to a hold, which traps his arms behind his neck and back - expertly applied by St. James. Collins may have underestimated St. James in the first fall, but he doesn't in the second. But when St. James starts to apply the same hold by which he won in the first, BG thinks it is “upset time.” Collins manages, by a ...

Chuck appears in yellow trunks, John in blue. This is a pro match, but both appear barefoot.. This is a classic battle of pro lightweights. John is 5'7”, 135#. Collins is 5'8”, 145#. Collins soon realizes that he has one hell of a challenge on his hands as he goes down in the first fall to a hold, which traps his arms behind his neck and back - expertly applied by St. James. Collins may have underestimated St. James in the first fall, but he doesn't in the second. But when St. James starts to apply the same hold by which he won in the first, BG thinks it is “upset time.” Collins manages, by a whisker, to worm his way out of that devastating hold and go on to an “over the shoulder backbreaker” win. St. James, looking muscular, cut and ripped, as usual, looks scrumptiously yummy all squirming and helpless over Chuck's shoulder. He holds out for an inordinately long time before he submits. The deciding 3rd fall is at hand. Both grapplers go all-out to defeat the other, and there are at least a couple of times that St. James could of won if he had persevered. He manages to secure a good claw hold twice and in BG's opinion might have extracted a submission. But he backs off, allows Collins to get up, and the match continues. There are also several points in the third fall when it looks like Collins is going to go on to win, but St. James in stunning reversals, manages to overcome whatever dire predicament he is about to get into. It is anybody's guess at that point as to the victor. An excellent match from two sharp and talented competitors.