Billy Robinson Passes Away Aged 74

Professional wrestler and Catch As Catch Can Wrestling coach Billy Robinson has passed away aged 74 reports SLAM! Sports. 

His biographer, Jake Shannon, with whom he collaborated on Physical Chess: My Life in Catch-as-Catch-Can Wrestling, confirmed the passing.

"I am unbelievably sad to report that my very good friend Billy Robinson has passed away," wrote Shannon on Facebook. "I hadn't heard from him in days so I contacted his apartment complex to check in on him. When I called back for a progress report the apartment manager put the police on the phone, it seems he passed peacefully in his sleep. He was a lion of a man, bigger than life in so many ways, my wife and I named our youngest son, Lliam, in his honor. You will be sorely missed, my friend. Thank you so much for living the life you did."

Robinson was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2003.