About Billy Robinson
William Alfred Robinson was an English professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, catch wrestler, and wrestling coach. Having trained at Billy Riley's gym, better known as "The Snake Pit" in Wigan, Robinson was one of the leading practitioners of catch wrestling, a British national champion in freestyle wrestling, and a professional wrestling world champion. He had a successful career in the UK and internationally, especially in Japan. Robinson is known for training professional wrestlers and mixed martial artists in the catch wrestling style, including Josh Barnett, Kazushi Sakuraba, Kiyoshi Tamura, and Shayna Baszler. As a professional wrestler, Robinson became a double-crown British and European Heavyweight Champion for Joint Promotions. At the 1957 British Senior Championships, he won the freestyle wrestling light heavyweight title.
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