I wish this person would write a book...

[hulksmash87]

Who are some wrestlers or personalities you wish would write a book? My list would be Michael Hayes, Kevin von erich, Paul Heyman, and Jake roberts

[Deleted]

Vince McMahon

[jagilki]

SID.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 14, 2018 21:05:33 GMT -5 hulksmash87 said:

Who are some wrestlers or personalities you wish would write a book? My list would be Michael Hayes, Kevin von erich, Paul Heyman, and Jake roberts

Great choices but I think Heyman and Vince have a lot of skeletons to write a book, i think that's why Heyman never did shoot interviews or anything when he got fired from the wwe.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 14, 2018 21:24:29 GMT -5 jagilki said:

SID.

He only has half the brain so it would be half the chapters.

Although a Sid book might be fun, Downtown Bruno's stories about Sid in his book were hilarious.

[jagilki]

Apr 14, 2018 21:29:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Apr 14, 2018 21:24:29 GMT -5 jagilki said:

SID.

He only has half the brain so it would be half the chapters.

Although a Sid book might be fun, Downtown Bruno's stories about Sid in his book were hilarious.

My SID book wouldn't be biographical. It'd be about a Private Detective who goes undercover as a Softball Player to solve crimes.

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Apr 14, 2018 21:34:45 GMT -5 jagilki said:

Apr 14, 2018 21:29:03 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

He only has half the brain so it would be half the chapters.

Although a Sid book might be fun, Downtown Bruno's stories about Sid in his book were hilarious.

My SID book wouldn't be biographical. It'd be about a Private Detective who goes undercover as a Softball Player to solve crimes.

I want him to come out with a coffee table book about international units of measure called Rulers of the World.

[wildojinx]

Apr 14, 2018 21:21:56 GMT -5 @axiv said:

Vince McMahon

This. And no editor either, as soon as it's done, publish it as is. More realistic options:
Kevin Nash
Scott Hall
Ron Simmons
Gene Okerlund (just think of all the stories he'd have to tell)
Sting (not that Moment of Truth tie-in, a real bio)
New Jack
Edge (an updated version)
Vickie Guerrero

[chazraps]

Scott Steiner. And I want it on tape.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

Sadly, Vince will never publish an autobiography, and there's no chance in this or any other universe that Stephanie would allow an honest biography to be published.

[Zen411]

Mick Foley

[Natural Born Farmer]

Punk.

[Milkman Norm]

Apr 14, 2018 21:24:29 GMT -5 jagilki said:

SID.

"It was the ninth inning when I came to bat. We were down by two with runners on first and second. I fell into an 0-2 count. I worked the count back to full. Then I got my pitch. Boom. Out of right field. We won 4-3. The next day it was Wrestlemania or something."

[Mozenrath]

Apr 14, 2018 21:48:35 GMT -5 2coldMack is even more baffled said:

Sadly, Vince will never publish an autobiography, and there's no chance in this or any other universe that Stephanie would allow an honest biography to be published.

Meh. Literally no one is qualified to write an "honest" biography, because the guy is too much of a polarizing mixed bag. You'd need several writers writing from several perspectives to even come close to something right that wasn't just like a shitty book report.

If you focus on the guy who had an absentee father, was sexually abused, who crawled and scraped his way through a business run by shady businessmen and had the deck stacked against him, that's part of his story, and correct enough, but missing vital context.

If you write about a capricious tyrant who decimated an industry to focus on his own personal ambitions, who promised (and largely delivered) fortunes to the top stars, and removed the ability of a lot of the nobodies to make a living in wrestling, with no one alive or dead who could say for sure what misdeeds he turned a blind eye to or was complicit in, sure, that's be part of the story, but it'd be a hack job, too. See if Nailz is busy, he can pen it.

Vince has been the wrestling industry more than any living human being could claim to be, and with that, there's a lot of charming stories and horrific accounts, just like wrestling.

[Zen411]

It's probably past it's time it would be relevant but Mick Foley as mankind the original cellar dwelling character would be fun. Kind of a found journal entry kind of fictional work.

Same goes for the bray Wyatt character.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Apr 14, 2018 22:13:59 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Apr 14, 2018 22:12:19 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Meh. Literally no one is qualified to write an "honest" biography, because the guy is too much of a polarizing mixed bag. You'd need several writers writing from several perspectives to even come close to something right that wasn't just like a shitty book report.

If you focus on the guy who had an absentee father, was sexually abused, who crawled and scraped his way through a business run by shady businessmen and had the deck stacked against him, that's part of his story, and correct enough, but missing vital context.

If you write about a capricious tyrant who decimated an industry to focus on his own personal ambitions, who promised (and largely delivered) fortunes to the top stars, and removed the ability of a lot of the nobodies to make a living in wrestling, with no one alive or dead who could say for sure what misdeeds he turned a blind eye to or was complicit in, sure, that's be part of the story, but it'd be a hack job, too. See if Nailz is busy, he can pen it.

Vince has been the wrestling industry more than any living human being could claim to be, and with that, there's a lot of charming stories and horrific accounts, just like wrestling.

Hell at one time a company wanted Meltzer to do it but he turned them down

Barry Blaustein was also offered to do a documentary about Vince but he rejected it because the people who told him personal stories about Vince refused to appear on camera.

Allegedly it would've featured stories about Vince growing up in the trailer park.

[Joe Neglia]

I would love to see one by One Man Gang. Started when he was 17, was main eventing against Hogan at house shows ten years later, and was gone from the mainstream of the business before he was 40, relying almost solely on the nostalgia circuit after that. Worked just about every major territory, rode with guys like Akbar, Gary Hart and Kevin Sullivan. Was the top guy in UWF when it went national. The racially-charged Akeem gimmick and Slick pairing. Took up his former partner's real life occupation as a prison guard after retiring. Rebuilding after losing everything to a natural disaster. Dude has a story to tell somewhere in all that.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Apr 14, 2018 21:46:41 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Scott Steiner. And I want it on tape.

Man... part of me wants to listen to Scott Steiner reading his own words.

Another part of me wants to hear Scott Steiner's words read by Werner Herzog.

Just imagine it.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Living, it's a little harder to say. I wish Ron Wright had written one. Living, I guess I'd say Kevin Sullivan. From white meat babyface rookie in a southern territory in the late '60s or early '70s to booking the hottest company in the world in the '90s, he's kinda done it all.

[Deleted]

I bet that a guy like Barry Horowitz has some crazy stories to tell. Raven would be a good one. Ron Simmons would be fun. Teddy Long would be great. Probably not high on many lists, but I think a Kofi book would be good. The Miz would probably be a best seller. There’s tons of stories out there that I’d love to hear from some of the guys that aren’t the absolute top guys. They probably have some of the best stories because they’re watching the top guys from a distance and will have a different perspective on things. If he were alive I bet that the Big Bossman would have a great book.