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W.A.R.Catch Wrestling: Lessons in Catch-As-Catch-Can with Billy Robinson is presented by Scientific Wrestling.
You get to be a fly on the wall as Billy coaches eager students (MMA stars Josh Barnett and Erik Paulson included!) in the ways of Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling in this very special deluxe 4-DVD course.
For those who are unfamiliar with Mr. Robinson’s legacy, Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has graciously allowed me to reprint portions of his April 25, 2005 edition in which he discusses Mr. Robinson’s legacy in depth:
“Most of the true shooters, such as Lou Thesz and Danny Hodge, held high regard for him, both as a shooter and as a person…
He’s an easy Hall of Fame candidate who was regarded as the most talented wrestler in North America in the early 1970s.
He was well-known as a shooter because he came from The Wigan Snake Pit in England and trained with Billy Riley and Bert Assirati (who many claim to be the best British wrestler, and the toughest, that there ever was, but a totally uncontrollable character because he was noted for hurting people in the ring).
That was said to be the best submission teaching in the world at the time.
Robinson was the finest man to come out of that generation’s school, thus he had the reputation.
When guys in Minnesota wanted to be wrestlers, Gagne used him as his head trainer and shooter.
Robinson tortured the men, and his reputation in those camps was far from what he portrayed on television.
Many people label him as a bully.
However, many of the era’s great wrestlers, including Ricky Steamboat, Ric Flair, Jim Brunzell, Curt Hennig, Iron Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter, Ken Patera, and Buddy Rose, came out of those camps with stories of nightmarish things they saw and, in some cases, experienced.
When Randy Savage, a wildman who was quick to fight and one of the biggest stars in the business, was confronted, playfully as it was, by a well past his prime Robinson in the mid-80s, it was described that he froze in deathly fear and nearly soiled himself…
In his autobiography, Jack Brisco discussed his fight with Robinson, which occurred in the late 1960s while both were touring Australia.
Apparently, the two, who had high regard for each other’s abilities and were undoubtedly among the toughest and most skilled men in the business, became good friends “.
Brisco stated that when they traveled together in Australia, they would dispute over which technique was superior: the submission method Robinson acquired in Wigan or the style Brisco learned at Oklahoma State on his way to becoming an NCAA champion and losing only one collegiate match in his whole career.
“It took a lot of skill to maneuver an opponent into position to apply one of the submission holds,” Brisco wrote in his autobiography.
“I had yet to meet anyone who could arrange for me to be in a position where they could apply their hold and force me to submit.
They ended up in Brisco’s hotel room one night after both had been drinking and it was past 2 a.m.
It began with each of them being friendly and demonstrating techniques and set-ups.
It became dangerously real at one point.
“Man, he was tough,” Brisco added.
“Many wrestlers I’ve met over the years thought of themselves as shooters.
They were really good at displaying holds.
‘Let me show you this,’ or ‘Let me show you that,’ but the true test was whether they could pull off these destruction techniques or submission grips in a real bout.
The majority of these guys had grandiose delusions.
They wouldn’t be able to execute those moves if their lives depended on it.
Billy was by far the exception.
He could not only demonstrate the move, but also hit them from anywhere.”
When asked about the confrontation, Robinson simply stated, “He then went to the hospital.
No, I didn’t.” When Brisco’s name was mentioned again, he repeated that line.” (Get the April 25, 2005 edition of Mr. Meltzer’s newletter for more from Meltzer’s biography of Billy, including the story of Billy’s street fight with Peter “The Rock’s grandfather” Maivia and how Robinson punished Olympic and Professional Wrestler The Iron Sheik at AWA training camp.)
FREE BONUS 1: Conditioning as practiced at Wigan, the UWFi, and the UWF-Snakepit: Billy takes the boys through a typical warm-up and workout, which you can now incorporate into your own conditioning routine!
FREE BONUS 2: Erik Paulson’s Q&A.
The cameras rolled at the end of the clinic as legendary MMA trainer and Shooto Light Heavyweight champion Erik Paulson picked Billy’s brain on a variety of rides and submissions! UNIQUE MATERIAL!!! W.A.R.Catch Wrestling features some of the grips and tactics you would remember from MMA veterans Josh Barnett, Kazushi Sakuraba, and the UWFi’s diverse roster of competitors.
Billy also discusses Catch Wrestling’s history and philosophy, as well as his family’s involvement in pugilism and bare-knuckle boxing (Billy’s grandfather was a bare-knuckle boxer).

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