CRAZY IS MY SUPERPOWER is the memoir of retired professional wrestler April “AJ LEE” Mendez-Brooks. I want to say straight off the bat that if you’re expecting a comprehensive look at AJ’s in-ring career, you’re not going to get that here. Although AJ’s time as a wrestler was relatively short (2007-2015), she does not spend…
Gary Hart’s My Life in Wrestling is the white whale of wrestling memoirs. Long since out of print, hardcover copies go easily for over a grand on the secondary market. Given that I was never, ever going to pay that much for any book let alone this one, I just assumed I would never get…
In 2019, Nick and Matt Jackson, alongside several of their friends and peers, as well as American businessman Tony Khan, founded AEW (All Elite Wrestling), a new and exciting competitor to the monopolistic WWE in the United States. However, the duo weren’t always the trendsetting disrupters they came to be in recent years, they had…
Pure Dynamite is the memoir of professional wrestler Tom “The Dynamite Kid” Billington. In the years following the 1999 release of Mick Foley’s Have A Nice Day, the marketplace for wrestler memoirs and biographies exploded. While many of those books aren’t worth reading, Tom Billington’s memoir – originally released in 2001 – has long been…
Under The Black Hat is the second volume of a two-book series detailing the life and career of Hall of Fame pro wrestling broadcaster, Jim Ross. I’ve yet to read Jim Ross’ first book, Slobberknocker. No real reason other than the fact that I haven’t yet gotten around to it. While I do plan to…
The Eighth Wonder of the World is the story of the life and career of Andre Roussimoff, better known as Andre The Giant. Authors Pat Laprade and Bertrand Hebert were not kidding when they labeled this book “a definitive and exhaustive biography”. Through interviews with members of Andre’s family, promoters, Andre’s peers as well as…
Self Help is the story of the life and career of professional wrestler Al Snow. I received an advanced copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Al was never really a particular favorite of mine, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I thought he was terrible in any…
Since the fall of WCW and the end of WWE’s Attitude Era there have been countless books, podcasts, documentaries and shoot interviews (interviews with wrestlers out of character) about the last great boom period in professional wrestling. With his book NITRO, author Guy Evans enters an already crowded marketplace. Did he succeed in his goal…
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