History Wrestling / BillyRobinson

* ThreeAmigos: During a certain tour in Japan in 1971, he was once travel companions with Wrestling/KarlGotch and Wrestling/AndreTheGiant.
-->''"Wrestling/AndreTheGiant has a posse, you're screwed they're catch wrestlers."''

* FunWithAcronyms: His full name is William Alfred Robinson. While that is quite standard, his initials spell out [[AwesomeMcCoolName W.A.R.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The Physical Chess Master]]

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: According to Billy and Wrestling/KarlGotch, their friend and trainer Billy Joyce was this to both of them. He was considered the best of the Snakepit in his prime, and the only reason they ever beat him in matches was because he was getting old. They also considered another Snakepit senior student, George Gregory as this as well.
* BadassBoast: Not usually for himself, though he is not really modest by any means, he mostly likes to boast about the superiority of UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling compared to other styles.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: “Do it again!”, which he got from his trainers at the Snake Pit in Wigan.

* CoolTeacher: A trainer for Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association (AWA) and trained many pro wrestlers like El Signo, Johnny Saint, Jack Gallagher, Wrestling/TheIronSheik, etc.

* ForceAndFinesse: According to UWFI wrestlers like Wrestling/YojiAnjo and Yuko Miyato, who had experience training under Wrestling/KarlGotch and Robinson, compares them as such. Gotch was the force as he focused more on conditioning and a more strength based approach to grappling (and according to Hidetaka Aso, focused more on upper body submissions), while Robinson’s teachings were the more technical and all rounded of the two.

* RedBaron: "The British Lion", "The Wrestler’s Wrestler", "The Connoisseur of The Human Body", "The Man Of A Thousand Holds", "Ningen Fuusha" ("The Human Windmill"), "Europe no Teioh" ("The Emperor of Europe"), "Oshu Saikyo no Otoko" ("The Strongest Man in the West"), "Brit" (when he wrestled for the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation).

* SignatureMove: He favours the double wrist lock as his goto submission as seen with his trainee Wrestling/KazushiSakuraba's use of it in his fights, and Billy even has a instructional video focused solely on the double wrist lock. He also favored the [[SuplexFinisher double underhook suplex]] as his goto suplex.

* UnknownRival: Does not seem to respect Wrestling/MasahikoKimura’s skills, as Billy told a story about how Kimura once came to Wigan and got beat easily by another wrestler who was not that great. He also was not impressed by the story of Mas Oyama killing a bull with one strike, he said even if it was true, he would only be impressed if he did it to a Spanish fighting bull as those bulls are actually breed to fight, instead of a bull that is raised as a farm animal.
* UrExample: While he didn’t invent it, he was one of the first to use the tombstone piledriver in Japan. Same goes for his use of the double underhook suplex, which got earned his "Human Windmill" nickname over there.

As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Robinson The Other Wiki]].

* ForceAndFinesse: According to UWFI wrestlers like Wrestling/YojiAnjo and Yuko Miyato, who had experience trained under Gotch and Wrestling/BillyRobinson, compares them as such. Gotch was the force as he focused more on conditioning and a more strength based approach to grappling (and according to Hidetaka Aso, focused more on upper body submissions), while Robinson’s teachings were the more technical and all rounded of the two.

* ForceAndFinesse: According to several of the original UWF dojo graduates turned UWFI wrestlers, who all had experience trained under Karl Gotch and Robinson, compares them as such. Gotch was the force as he focused more on conditioning and a more strength based approach to grappling, while Robinson’s teachings were the more technical of the two.

* UrExample: While he didn’t invent it, he was one of the first to use the tombstone piledriver in Japan.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Was not particularly known for his strength, but he could do backbreakers on guys like [[TheGiant Giant Baba]] and Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher.

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Was not particularly known for his strength, but he could do backbreakers on guys like [[TheGiant Giant Baba]] and Wreetling/AbdullahTheButcher.

* UnknownRival: Does not seem to respect Wrestling/MasahikoKimura’s skills, as Billy told a story about how Kimura once came to Wigan and got beat easily by another wrestler who was not that great. He also was not impressed by the story of Mas Oyama killing a bull with one strike, he said even if it was true, he would only be impressed if he did it to a Spanish fighting bull as those bulls are actually breed to fight, instead of a bull that is raised as a farm animal.

* RedBaron: "The British Lion", "The Wrestler’s Wrestler", "The Connoisseur of The Human Body", "The Man Of A Thousand Holds", "Ningen Fuusha" ("The Human Windmill"), "Europe no Teioh" ("The Emperor of Europe"), "Oshu Saikyo no Otoko" ("The Strongest Man in the West"), "Brit" (when he wrestled in the US).

* RedBaron: "The British Lion", "The Wrestler’s Wrestler", "The Connoisseur of The Human Body", "The Man Of A Thousand Holds", "Ningen Fuusha" ("The Human Windmill"), "Europe no Teioh" ("The Emperor of Europe"), "Oshu Saikyo no Otoko" ("The Strongest Man in the West").

-->''"Wrestling is my life. When I was a little boy, all I did was wrestle. When I get to 90 years old, if I live that long, I will be teaching wrestling."''

Billy Robinson (1938-2014) was a British {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er, known for his role in the development of UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts in Japan. A former wrestling champion, he trained UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling in Billy Riley's Wigan Snakepit. He then went to travel around the world winning more titles and making people cry uncle, and this included North America as part of Verne Gagne's Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation, Canada with Lutte Internationale, and Japan under Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation. The latter would be his most notorious work, as he worked as a trainer as much as he did as a wrestler, and ended up being a vital part of the development of shoot-style along with his famous rival Wrestling/KarlGotch. He worked in the UWF Snakepit until his death in 2014.

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* DownerEnding: Robinson died on March 3, 2014, at the age of 75.

* InsistentTerminology: As an old school catch wrestler he uses wrestling terminology instead of modern submission grappling terminology which is mostly based on Brazilian jiu-jitsu.