Imagine being the last of the catch-as-catch-can wrestlers to train with men like Karl Gotch and Billy Joyce, to have had a hand in training legends from Ric Flair to Kazushi Sakuraba, to have had elite success as a competitor, entertainer, and coach, all while being the star of a movie ('The Wrestler' co-starring Ed Asner) and inspiration for the Japanese comic book character Robin Mask. You'd be imagining that you were Billy Robinson "I would say right today, without question, that he is the best wrestler in the world. And I say this without reservations because I'm really a super critic about wrestling and wrestlers. I think he's more knowledgable and objective about wrestling. He loves what he's doing, he's devoted his life to it, and I believe he's the number one man in the world today." Lou Thesz (speaking of Billy Robinson) Billy came from a distinguished fighting family. His great, great grandfather Harry held the bare-knuckle boxing championship of Great Britain, his Uncle Alf won the Lonsdale Trophy and boxed Max Baer, and his father took Tiger Flowers to the distance and defeated American champion 'Kid' Moose. When a childhood retina injury stopped him from obtaining his boxing license his father took him to the YMCA to wrestle, where he was inspired by meeting catch-as-catch-can greats Benny Sherman and George Gregory. Emboldened by beating grown men in wrestling, he started at Billy Riley's gym at 15 years of age. Often called the greatest British wrestler of all-time by his contemporaries, he crushed the competition at the amateur level, winning: • 3 Lancashire titles • 2 Northern County titles • British Amateur Championship • Irish Amateur Championship • European Open Championship (beat Olympian Gerry Martina) • Holds win over Bronze medal Olympian Ken Richmond He left Riley's gym to start his own gym in Manchester where he produced amateur champions like Marty Jones After his European tournament successes in 1962 he toured Calcutta, Hyderabad, Nepal, Bombay, and Dehli. Impressed by his skill he was invited to wrestle for the King of Nepal in front of crowds as large as 10,000 fans. While there he taught wrestling at the St. Xavier's Catholic Orphanage which held the Billy Robinson Cup tournament every year until 1996!

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ (please confirm you've read this by commenting "ON MISSION") CATCHCON2024 - Where Legends Rise is going to be an EXTRAVAGANZA. You get 3 of the GREATEST performing coaches/athletes EVER. Real men that have overcome TREMENDOUS odds to become LEGENDS. And you get 3 DAYS with them, picking their brains and creating memories (and clips for social media): **FRANK SHAMROCK (4X Undefeated UFC middleweight. King of Pancrase. Strikeforce Champ. Film star. Overcame severe child abuse and survived the Lion's Den and came out ON TOP) **PAT MILETICH (UFC Hall of Famer, 1st Welterweight Champion, Coach to 11 MMA World Champions. He got cancelled during lockdowns for speaking up about our food supply being poisoned. Major experience in broadcasting and NEW Shoot Pro Wrestling "El Presidente!") **WADE SCHALLES (America's Greatest Pinner, 5 Combat Sport All-American in Folkstyle, Freestyle, Judo, Greco-Roman, and Sambo! Developed first belt rank system for wrestling, Scientific Wrestling Head Coach since 2014) You also will get seminars and hands-on fine tuning from: **LUIS OJEDA (Winningest catch-as-catch-can champion in the modern era, Billy Robinson and Wade Schalles trained! Highly successful Folkstyle wrestling coach, original Scientific Wrestling Elite Coach) **SAM KRESSIN (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 4th Degree Blackbelt, Billy Robinson and Wade Schalles trained! World's Deadliest Artist. BJJ Fanatics Instructor, original Scientific Wrestling Elite Coach) **JESSE MAREZ (10P Blackbelt, highly decorated competitor, Billy Robinson and Wade Schalles trained! BJJ Fanatics Instructor, original Scientific Wrestling Elite Coach) **GIL OLIVAS (Judo blackbelt, SAW blackbelt, BJJ Blackbelt, highly decorated competitor and coach, Scientific Wrestling Elite Coach and the No1 Scientific Wrestling Affiliate!) **JAKE SHANNON: (Creator of the modern competitive catch-as-catch-can movement, creator of the fitness mace movement, inventor of the Macebell, founder of Scientific Wrestling. Mentored by Karl Gotch directly for 3 years. Apprenticed intensely with Billy Robinson for 7 years and Wade Schalles for 20 years. First ever Schalles 3rd degree blackbelt in wrestling. Level 2 Shamrock Submission Fighting. Best-selling author and 3X best-selling BJJ Fanatics instructor)