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Legendary fighter Billy Robinson releases new memoir!
In his new autobiography Physical Chess: My Life in Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling (June 2012, ECW Press), legendary British fighter Billy Robinson takes readers on an engaging trip back in time using his own experiences, both inside and outside the ring, to explore the roots of modern day wrestling and mixed martial arts.
At 74 years old, Robinson (better known in professional wrestling circles as “The British Lion”) is one of the last of the famed Lancashire submission experts. Dubbed “catch wrestlers,” these tough-as-nails fighters were known for their excruciating holds and brutally efficient techniques. Catch wrestling is the great-granddaddy of today’s mixed martial arts, professional wrestling, freestyle wrestling, and other reality-based self-defense systems. In the foreword to Physical Chess, co-author Jake Shannon describes these little-known fighters as “the men who broke their bones, spilled their blood, and bet the wages they earned after a long day in the coal mines, steel mills, or lumberyards, merely to see who was the better man.”