Wrestling category: 259 books
Legends of Pro Wrestling
150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first...
by John Cosper
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
As the Attitude Era drew to a close in the early 2000s, the WWE already had an eye to the future. The stars who would succeed the Rock, Stone Cold, and the Undertaker were already well on their way to the big time, and Louisville, Kentucky had a front row seat to the future.
They were all here...
Steel Chair to the Head
The Pleasure and Pain of Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The antagonists—oiled, shaved, pierced, and tattooed; the glaring lights; the pounding music; the shouting crowd: professional wrestling is at once spectacle, sport, and business. Steel Chair to the Head provides a multifaceted look at the popular phenomenon of pro wrestling. The contributors combine...
by Tom Jarman, Reid Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1983
At any level of wrestling competition, the basic fundamentals are essential to success in the sport. Wrestling for Beginners gives novice wrestlers those techniques that serve as the foundation for all wrestling instruction--conditioning, maneuvers, holds, takedowns, counters, strategy, and pinning...
Legends of Pro Wrestling
150 Years of Headlocks, Body Slams, and Piledrivers
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and neverbefore- seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first...
Thrashing Seasons
Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Horseback wrestling, catch-as-catch-can, glima; long before the advent of today’s WWE, forms of wrestling were practised by virtually every cultural group. C. Nathan Hatton’s "Thrashing Seasons" tells the story of wrestling in Manitoba from its earliest documented origins in the eighteenth...
Wrestling Writing
Capturing the People and Culture of the Greatest Sport on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years, sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time, there is never a course on sacrifice, on goal setting, on perseverance, on overcoming adversity, on being a great teammate.
I guess that is what the sport of...
by Hulk Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
You think you know Hollywood Hulk Hogan? Brother, you don't know squat about me.
Yeah, I'm the towering red-and-yellow warrior who revolutionized the wrestling business, the larger-than-life superhero who transformed an entire country into a horde of Hulkamaniacs. I'm the guy who spit blood and...
by Tim Hornbaker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
?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 privileged cold hard cash over honest competition was professional wrestling, and the conspirators...
Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn’t Know It Was Broken
From Photo Shoots and Sensational Stories to the WWE Network — Bill Apter’s Incredible Pro Wrestling Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Complete with exclusive photographs and sensational backstage stories, Is Wrestling Fixed? is the much anticipated memoir from the biggest legend in wrestling fandom himself, Bill Apter
As a kid growing up in New York in the late ’50s, Bill Apter fell in love with professional wrestling,...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
If you want to learn how to become an independent professional wrestler, then check out "Independent Pro Wrestling Guide."
This guide is written by a former indie pro wrestler who will show you step by step to get started in the independent wrestling world.
•Learn how to get your start...
Slaphappy
Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
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, promoters, and fans, Hackett explores the full range of issues that swirl around wrestling...
Slobberknocker
My Life in Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The Wrestling Biography You’ve Been Waiting For!
There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that’s just not JR.
Slobberknocker...
Chris & Nancy
The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Benoit murder-suicide in 2007 was one of the most shocking stories of the year, and a seminal event in the history of wrestling. It laid bare the devastating prevalence of steroids and its effects on users.
In order to tackle the whole story, dig up the facts, and connect the dots, Irvin...