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Historical Dictionary of Wrestling

by John Grasso

This dictionary covers Wrestling’s history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important...

Slaphappy

by Thomas Hackett

Slaphappy is reporter Thomas Hackett's penetrating look at the world of professional wrestling, for those who love the spectacle and for the sport's skeptics and the uninitiated. Through interviews with wrestlers,...

Four Days to Glory: The Heart of America, Flat on Its Back

by Mark Kreidler

Somewhere beyond the circle of money, glitz, drugs, and controversy that characterizes professional sports in America, remnants of an ideal exist. In Iowa, that ideal survives in the form of high school wrestling....

The Eighth Wonder of the World

by Tony Stabile, Bertrand Hébert & Pat Laprade

A definitive and exhaustive biography

Is there a way to find truth in the stuff of legend? You may think you know André the Giant ? but who was André Roussimoff? This comprehensive biography addresses the burning...

Life Is Short and So Am I

by Dylan Postl, Ross Owen Williams & Ian Douglass

Heart, determination, and triumph

This is the story of a boy who fell in love with wrestling before he was able to walk. Born with achondroplasia, a condition that causes disproportionate dwarfism, Dylan Postl...

There’s No Such Thing as a Bad Kid

by Titus O’Neil & Paul Guzzo

An inspiring story from a humanitarian role model and WWE superstar, known to fans as Titus O?Neil

One caring person can change the course of a child?s life ? Titus O?Neil knows that first-hand. Growing up, he...

The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame

by Greg Oliver & Steven Johnson

The legendary storytellers worthy of a spot in the pro wrestling hall of fame

You can?t escape pro wrestling today, even if you want to. Its stars are ubiquitous in movies, TV shows, product endorsements, swag,...

Self Help

by Al Snow & Ross Owen Williams

Professional wrestler Al Snow delivers highlights from his onscreen antics and never-before-heard tales from the road in this high-flying memoir spanning 30 years in the ring

In the late 90s, wrestling journeyman...

Wrestling's Greatest Moments

by Mike Rickard & Robyn Burnett

Every fan of professional wrestling remembers the moment that captured their heart forever and hooked them for life. Whether it was Ric Flair regaining the NWA Championship from Harley Race at Starcade, the...

Wrestling Babylon

by Irvin Muchnick, The Laidlaw Foundation & Paul McCarthy

Irvin Muchnick - a widely published writer and nephew of the late, legendary St. Louis wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick - has produced a book unlike any other on the astonishing growth of professional wrestling...

WrestleCrap Book of Lists!, The

by Rd Reynolds, Brad Kelln, Jon Redfern & Rd Reynolds and Blade Braxton et al.

Ever wanted to know the worst career choices pro wrestlers made upon retirement? Or which kung fu chop-socky wrestlers would make Bruce Lee do a backflip in his grave? The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! has all...

WrestleCrap

by Randy Baer, John McFetridge, Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry & Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds et al.

WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years....

World Wrestling Insanity Presents: Shoot First ... Ask Questions Later

by James Guttman, A. W. Stencell & Glenn Cochrane with Jean Cochrane

?In the latest offering from the best-selling author of World Wrestling Insanity, James Guttman tells the real story behind contacting, cajoling, convincing, interviewing, and learning from more than 100 of...

World Wrestling Insanity

by James Guttman, Cary Fagan & Michael Knox

In an industry where nothing is real and no one actually wins or loses, the possibilities for manipulation are endless. World Wrestling Insanity sets out to expose the nepotism, backwards logic, and power plays...

Straight from the Hart

by Bruce Hart, Tyler Hamilton & Eva Everything

?Straight from the Hart is the no-holds-barred book about the often surreal, physically and psychologically brutal and politically cutthroat world of professional wrestling that fans everywhere - from the most...

Sisterhood of the Squared Circle

by Dan Murphy, Pat Laprade & Wwe Superstar Natalya

Documenting the rise of women?s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event

Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women?s wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to...

Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, The

by Greg Oliver, Paul McCarthy, David Hofstede & Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson et al.

From the critically acclaimed authors of The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams comes the most comprehensive look ever at the colourful villains, heels, bad guys and rule breakers who give professional...

Pain and Passion

by Heath McCoy, Les Vandor & Stephanie Dickison

Calgary's Stampede Wrestling spawned some of the biggest wrestling stars in history, from mat kings of the past like Gene Kiniski and Superstar Billy Graham to modern idols like Bret "Hitman" Hart, the British...

NXT

by Jon Robinson & Vincent K. McMahon

The first comprehensive book on WWE?s hottest brand

NXT: The Future Is Now follows the rise of WWE?s popular NXT brand from its conception to the brink of taking over WWE with its own rabid following. For decades,...

National Wrestling Alliance

by Tim Hornbaker, James "Quick" Tillis as told to J. Engleman Price & Mendelson Joe, preface by Gary Michael Dault

?In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmen's conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry hid their illegal practices from the U.S. Department of Justice until they were caught. The sport that...