Any good wrestling books released this year?

[Spider2024]

The holiday gift season is coming up, and my brother usually asks for wrestling biographies, and likewise books that deal with pro wrestling. He's already gotten a lot of the big ones (all Foley, both Jericho, Bret Hart, Dusty, Unauthorized ECW, Wrestlecrap, stuff like that) and he still wants the Booker T and Terry Funk books. What else is there? Are there any good wrestling books that have come out this year?

[Steveweiser]

Get "Mad Dogs, Midgets & Screw Jobs" by Pat LaPrade and Bertrand Hébert, it's an excellent book about the Montreal territory.

[Joe Neglia]

Didn't Bob Holly's come out recently? Have heard almost nothing but good about it.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Sex, Lies and Headlocks is an older book, but is okay. It's an interesting outsiders perspective that covers mostly the WWF and WCW. Although written primarilly by an outsider the guy actually bothered to do some research and obviously did some interviews for the book.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Nov 14, 2013 15:55:58 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Didn't Bob Holly's come out recently? Have heard almost nothing but good about it.

It came out April 1st this year.

[Lardlad]

Ya I'd go with Mad Dogs, Midgets & Screw Jobs... The Hardcore Truth (Bob Holly)... and/or The Three Count (Jimmy Korderas)

[Spider2024]

Bob Holly's book sounds like it would have some good stuff in it.

Bumping this thread for if there are any other suggestions.

[suave]

"World Wrestling Insanity:The Rise and Fall of a Family Empire" is a pretty good one. It deals with a lot of mid 2000s WWE, like Triple H's endless push, Tough Enough and the Diva Search, Racial Stereotypes, and the immorality of the product. I enjoyed it a lot.

[Amazing Kitsune]

Nov 14, 2013 16:08:58 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Sex, Lies and Headlocks is an older book, but is okay. It's an interesting outsiders perspective that covers mostly the WWF and WCW. Although written primarilly by an outsider the guy actually bothered to do some research and obviously did some interviews for the book.

It is good, over all, but the guy who wrote it seemed to have a great amount of disdain for the business. The way he wrote it was really cynical and mocking, imo.

[dav]

Big Daddy had a biography released this year I believe. Might provide insight into British wrestling through the 60's - 90's.

[Deleted]

Bob Holly's book is one I'm looking for myself, he writes it in a way where he knows that he's not going to be rehired by WWE, so he just lets it all hang out. (I know, when it came out I was a guy wondering, "Even as a fan of the guy, who would buy a Bob Holly book?" Well, looks like I was wrong.)

Lex Luger's book is a pretty quick read (took me about 2 hours), but if there was ever a guy you talk about the rise and fall of a future star, Lex is that guy. Guy went from having everything in the world within reach to struggling to live day to day.

[edgestar]

I bought my brother the Luger bio for Christmas. I read it in about 2 hours. It was definitely an interesting read. I totally forgot Booker had a bio, so now I will be on the lookout for it. I enjoyed both his and Stevie Ray's speeches at the HOF this year and would love to read his book.

[The Gambler Fan]

Booker T’s book is mostly about his childhood to he was in his early 20’s. He explains the hell that he had to live through. His father died at an early age and his mother died when he was 12. He was homeless after his mother died. The book focuses on how he tried to survive on the mean streets of Huston. He failed out of high school, became a drug dealer, became a father at a young age with no job and became a fast food robber that led him to the Texas prison system. There is very little about wrestling until the last couple of chapters.

His middle name is To Be Determined. Booker To Be Determined Huffman JR.

[jason1980s]

George Steele's is interesting. He posts a lot on facebook for fans to check it out, give reviews and I'm glad I picked it up.

It details a lot about his early years, coaching, teaching/working summers as a wrestlers and his latter life with finding religion.

Very little about WWF in the 1980s but it's made up for with a lot of good stories from the other subjects.

Although he's a WWF guy he did a WCW appearance in the late 90s and he saw this as closure as he was bitter about not getting a contract for himself and Albert as George Steele Jr. I think if Albert had started out with a goofy gimmick it would probably have helped him in the short and long run as he's always been seen as a cartoon jobber type.