Wrestling Books

[Deleted member 429137]

some people like Kurt Angle wrote their books in a fantasy world..

What kind of bonkers crap did he right?

 

[ThunderL1ps]

I found Edge's book for 2 bucks at a book fair. It was a complete waste of time. What an uninteresting individual.

Books I've read that I enjoyed:

Piper

Flair

Blassie

Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling. Liked every section but the Brock Lesnar section. Seems like it was mailed in for him with no mention of possible works or shenanigans in MMA.

Vince McMahon: Sex Lies and Headlocks (must own)

Top 100 Wrestlers - Wrestling Observer

In the middle:

Dynamite Kid - Enjoyed his matches. Comes off as a bitter prick. One would think he would mellow with age, but in written form doesn't seem to be the case.

Bruiser Brody - I just never really got the appeal of the guy. I thought reading the book may have given me more insight and it did, but still didnt' take for me. Interesting info about Brody no-showing a match with Randy Savage in ICW. Too bad there wasn't a quote from Lanny or Randy (if he was alive while it was being written) of what transpired.

All American Boy Bob Backlund could have been better with a better writer or better yet an editor. Enjoyed some of the shoot and potential shoots that happened. I won't spoil it for anyone. Wished they would have written more about that. Still not bad, but I was expecting more for some reason.

Capital Revolution - Just finished reading this week. Very NWA heavy, but also I learned some things about other sports McMahon's were involved in. There could have been more Vince Jr. content before he took over the WWF, but I guess I have that in Sex, Lies and Headlocks: Vince McMahon biography --- but for those that don't have that book, there is a bunch of key content missing pre-84. Again, expected more.

 

[Protegejoe296]

I found Edge's book for 2 bucks at a book fair. It was a complete waste of time. What an uninteresting individual.



Dynamite Kid - Enjoyed his matches. Comes off as a bitter prick. One would think he would mellow with age, but in written form doesn't seem to be the case.

He is a bitter prick.

 

[Pittie Petey]

I found Edge's book for 2 bucks at a book fair. It was a complete waste of time. What an uninteresting individual.

Books I've read that I enjoyed:

Piper

Flair

Blassie

Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling. Liked every section but the Brock Lesnar section. Seems like it was mailed in for him with no mention of possible works or shenanigans in MMA.

Vince McMahon: Sex Lies and Headlocks (must own)

Top 100 Wrestlers - Wrestling Observer

In the middle:

Dynamite Kid - Enjoyed his matches. Comes off as a bitter prick. One would think he would mellow with age, but in written form doesn't seem to be the case.

Bruiser Brody - I just never really got the appeal of the guy. I thought reading the book may have given me more insight and it did, but still didnt' take for me. Interesting info about Brody no-showing a match with Randy Savage in ICW. Too bad there wasn't a quote from Lanny or Randy (if he was alive while it was being written) of what transpired.

All American Boy Bob Backlund could have been better with a better writer or better yet an editor. Enjoyed some of the shoot and potential shoots that happened. I won't spoil it for anyone. Wished they would have written more about that. Still not bad, but I was expecting more for some reason.

Capital Revolution - Just finished reading this week. Very NWA heavy, but also I learned some things about other sports McMahon's were involved in. There could have been more Vince Jr. content before he took over the WWF, but I guess I have that in Sex, Lies and Headlocks: Vince McMahon biography --- but for those that don't have that book, there is a bunch of key content missing pre-84. Again, expected more.

Are you talking about the Larry Matysik book about Brody?
I thought it was great but Im also a big time Brody mark even though he was an A-hole that screwed over the paying customers sometimes

Just started reading the Capitol Revolution and Its pretty interesting so far
Im still in the 1920's era though

 

[Kinger85]

Capital Revolution was just not what I was expecting. I wasn't expecting it to go so far back in time.

 

[Bonos]

THUMBS DOWN

Listen You Pencil Neck Geeks - Freddy Blassie

What's wrong with it? I kinda want to buy it.

 

[sangreporsangre]

So I read this book "Andre the Giant - A Legendary Life" that I saw at the library. What a waste of time. I read it hoping to learn some stuff about Andre's life, but it was just fluff and mostly focused on his years with WWE, it actually was published by WWE so that should have been my first hint. Basically his childhood is dealt with in like a paragraph. They then go into such detail of Andre's feuds and angles over the years, up to the point that they print out the promos that he and his opponents would cut on each other verbatim, and have pbp breakdowns of some of his matches. Seriously. That's why I blew through this book in a couple days, because I skipped over like half of it. You seriously would learn more about the man's life by reading his Wiki page than this lame ass book. It's all the same shit: nothing happened in the ring unless Andre allowed it, if Andre didn't like you he let you know, etc. Again and again. Now, I remember that like over 15 years ago I saw a biography on Andre on A&E and it mentioned he had a daughter. No mention of that in this book, just that he liked playing with a young Stephanie McMahon because "she reminded him of the nieces and nephews he rarely got to see."

There was other stuff in there that I'm pretty sure was BS, like Big John Studd quitting the business suddenly one night because he heard that Andre was gonna shoot on him in the ring. I've heard before that Andre hated Big John and I don't doubt he roughed him up some over the years, but I find it hard to believe that John quit like that after they had worked together for years, scared that an Andre who couldn't walk to the ring by himself was gonna kick his ass randomly after all this time and all the money they had made together. I thought that was when he (Studd) started to get sick so that's why he left. Anyway it doesn't matter, the book sucked. The only entertaining part was Vince burying Hogan at every opportunity he could.

 

[El Dandy]

Best book I've read is Dynamite's. The only one I've actually read twice. I feel he just tells it like it is. I loved the story about planning to legit mop the floor with Beefcake in a cage match right before the back injury.

Foley's first and Jericho's first, are also excellent. Foley's second was very good.

Diana's is trash. Matha's about Owen, is bitter (justifiably) and sad. I read two of Heenan's and thought they were so-so. I was a huge Bret mark back in the day, but his ego is just ridiculous in his book. He carried, basically everyone in the ring, and humble brags about banging tons of chicks. Dynamite's book said he Bret and JYD smoked crack together. Bret leaves that out of his book.