Former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts recounts the story of his life and his time working for the biggest wrestling company in the world. Justin worked for WWE sporadically for years before finally securing a full-time announce gig as the voice of the ECW brand. From there, he worked his way up to Smackdown and…
Former pro wrestler Mick Foley returns with his fifth memoir – this time taking a look at his years in the red suit portraying Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick (or Saint Mick, if you please). When it comes to Mick Foley’s memoirs, they seem to have fallen within the law of diminishing returns. His first two…
Author Jon Robinson takes a look at the tremendous amount of planning it takes to bring together WWE’s annual flagship show, WrestleMania. Honestly, with Creating The Mania, I was expecting a WWE produced fluff-piece. However, I was pleasantly surprised with both the honesty from those involved as well as the impressive detail on display from…
Tim Hornbaker tells the story of the collapse of the pro wrestling territorial system within the United States. I long believed that Vince McMahon was mainly successful in establishing a nation-wide wrestling promotion because he was a visionary; that he was the first of the American wrestling promoters to give it a go when it…
Crazy Like a Fox is the story of the career of Brian Pillman. Heralded as one of the greatest wrestler biographies ever written, author Liam O’Rourke takes you through the unique, albeit brief, career of Brian Pillman. Through his early days playing football in the NFL and CFL, to his final days as a performer…
After finishing Jericho’s previous book, “The Best in the World (At What I Have No Idea)”, I was pretty confident that if he chose to write a fourth book, I wouldn’t be picking it up. I found it boring, lacking in substance and purely a money-grab. Yet, here we are. You can blame Kindle for…
Wrestle Maniacs is a collection of dark, often humorous fiction based in the world of professional wrestling. I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Many of the stories are inspired by behind-the-scenes events, veteran performers or storylines that happened in the past. That’s not to say all the…
On the heels of an explosion in the women’s division of WWE, comes Pat LaPrade and Dan Murphy’s Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History & Rise of Women’s Wrestling. Up until the last four years or so, women’s wrestling in WWE was presented as more of a time-filler. Seeing as WWE formed the basis…
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