Books : Wrestling's Most Wanted : The Top 10 Book of Pro Wrestling's Outrageous Performers, Punishing Piledrivers, and Other Oddities (Most Wanted)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.812092273
EAN num: 9781574883084
ISBN number: 1574883089
Label: Potomac Books Ltd.
Manufacturer: Potomac Books Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: February 12, 2001
Publishing house: Potomac Books Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 997522
Studio: Potomac Books Ltd.
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One of America’s strangest, yet most popular, cable TV spectacles, with more than 20 million fans, is professional wrestling. Gain behind-the-scenes insight on the culture of professional wrestling with Floyd Conner's seventy top-ten lists featuring the zaniest gimmicks, most outlandish performers, craziest fans, most dreaded holds, and most diabolical matches
Former wrestling star Jesse 'the Body' Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota in 1998. Comedian Andy Kaufman was once involved in a series of wrestling grudge matches. Tricky Ricky Star was a ballet dancer who wrestled. Irwin R. Schyster was a wrestling IRS agent. Morgus the Maniac is a mental patient who enters the ring in a straightjacket. Baby Huey is a 500-pound wrestler who dresses as a baby. The Gargoyle likes to gnaw on opponents’ feet.
Wrestling's Most Wanted™ profiles 700 of the most outrageous wrestlers, obnoxious managers, and powerful promoters in pro wrestling history, including all of today’s greatest stars: Hulk Hogan, the Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Undertaker, Mick Foley, Goldberg, and Sid Vicious. It also remembers the greats of the past, such as Gorgeous George, Dick the Bruiser, The Sheik, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, Argentina Rocca, Abdullah the Butcher, Bruno Sammartino, and André the Giant.
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Books on the subject of pro wrestling are coming out in great quantity these days. A few are great, many are so-so, and some are disappointing. I hate to say this book is one of the disappointments; I love the idea of a pro wrestling "book of lists," I've even known enthusiasts who have considered trying out the idea. "Wrestling's Most Wanted" delivers list after list of stage names, family combos, gimmicks... the categories themselves are interesting, but the examples give little interesting information other than citing who used what gimmick, who uses which finishing hold, etc... I doubt the author really knows a lot about pro wrestling; it seems like he merely collected a book's worth of information and tossed them into a book. Maybe those who know nothing about the pro wrestling biz might enjoy some of the newfound information in these lists; if so, kudos to the author for turning newbies into possible fans. If you are, on the other hand, a wrestling fan who is only even ankle deep in your pro wrestling studies and initiation, you are much better off purchasing the autobiographies of Lou Thesz, Mick Foley and Dynamite Kid.
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