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Download or read book The Wrestling written by Simon Garfield and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant oral history of the golden age of British wrestling and magnificent wider social history.' Richard Osman The classic account of the men and women who used to fight each other for pride and money. Simon Garfield brings them to life in one last glorious bout of jealousy, myth, revenge, passion and deep devotion. When British wrestling was dropped from the ITV schedules in the mid-80s it left the giants of the ring - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki - bereft. This is the true story of the circuit, the big names and their rivalries, told with humour, warmth and affection. This edition features a new afterword by the author.
Book Synopsis The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers by : Dan Murphy
Download or read book The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers written by Dan Murphy and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walk-through wrestling history, starting with the founding fathers such as Ed “Strangler” Lewis and the incomparable Lou Thesz, to modern-day masters such as Daniel Bryan and Kurt Angle. The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers spotlights elite performers and analyzes exactly what made them your favorite wrestler’s favorite wrestlers. Authors Dan Murphy and Brian Young interviewed more than 40 in-ring veterans, historians, referees, and promoters to get a unique insider’s look at the people who have made a lasting impact on the world of professional wrestling. It offers a special peek “behind the curtain” and a rare look into the top stars’ thoughts on their peers, their influences, and their personal favorites. The Wrestlers’ Wrestlers is a history of professional wrestling but also a tribute to the frequently misunderstood art itself. Featuring stars of the 1920s to today, this essential read deserves a prominent spot on the bookcase of every fan and historian.
Book Synopsis Wrestling Tough, 2E by : Chapman, Mike
Download or read book Wrestling Tough, 2E written by Chapman, Mike and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrestling Tough, Second Edition, will inspire and guide you to achieve the mind-set of a champion. Whether you need to identify the flaws of an opponent, get optimally psyched for a big match, or overcome the adversity inherent in participating in the sport, Wrestling Tough will prepare you to excel and win.
Book Synopsis The Wrestler's Cruel Study by : Stephen Dobyns
Download or read book The Wrestler's Cruel Study written by Stephen Dobyns and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-02-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One hell of a book, believe me. Here we have comedy of every kind--of situation, types, manners, ideas, and language--all rolled seamlessly into one, and for the ultimate serious purpose, our sanity. It is the Supreme Fiction toward which the Twentieth century has been steadily advancing from the start."--Hayden Carruth.
Book Synopsis The Wrestler's Body by : Joseph S. Alter
Download or read book The Wrestler's Body written by Joseph S. Alter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-08-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.
Book Synopsis The Wrestling Season by : Laurie Brooks
Download or read book The Wrestling Season written by Laurie Brooks and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using only the setting of a wrestling mat, eight young people struggle with the destructive power of rumors and how others see them.
Book Synopsis Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed. by : Harris M. Lentz III
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed. written by Harris M. Lentz III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though professional wrestlers are usually ignored by sportswriters and entertainment reporters alike, the popularity of these gifted athletes and showbiz pros is undeniable. Few fans are concerned with whether the wrestling is "legitimate." From Ace Abbott to Buck Zumhofe, this is the second edition of the first-ever comprehensive compilation of biographical information on professional wrestlers past and present, including major promoters and managers. Each entry is listed under the wrestling name most often used, with cross references to real names and other ring names. The ring name is followed by the grappler's real name, hometown, height and weight, and birth and death dates when available. The biographical data provide the era in which the individual competed, wrestling associations, titles, tag team partners, major bouts and other highlights.
Book Synopsis Siegfried the Wrestler by : Peter S. Fisher
Download or read book Siegfried the Wrestler written by Peter S. Fisher and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.
Download or read book The Wrestler written by David Heddendorf and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day during his high school gym class, Matt Lindley must wrestle a new student named Ben Cameron. Matt holds his own in the hard-fought bout, then learns that Cameron is a star on the school wrestling team. Over a year later, during college, Matt is even more astonished to discover that Ben has become a Christian like himself. In the ensuing years of visits and letter-writing, Ben inspires Matthew’s faith while upending his ideas about the Bible, church, and spiritual experience. Told with honesty, compassion, and humor, The Wrestler is the story of a young man’s post-evangelical faith journey and the unlikely friendship that pushes him to grapple with God.
Book Synopsis Chokehold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring by : Weldon T. Johnson
Download or read book Chokehold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring written by Weldon T. Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously crafted and searing critique of pro wrestling is unlike any wrestling book published: Chokehold is a penetrating description of pro wrestlings dark side, a secret underworld of deception, exploitation and greed. The storyteller is Big Jim Wilson, All-American football player and survivor of seven years in the NFL, who was promised wealth and the world championship as pro wrestler. Instead, Jim Wilson found a surprisingly lucrative sports entertainment industry built on a pyramid of secrets that included abusive control of its performers and a long history of illegal business practices and corruption of politicians and state athletic commissions. Chokehold describes and documents the abuses that Jim Wilson witnessed and endured blacklisting, strong-arm tactics, homosexual blackmail, defiance of the U.S. Justice Department and bribery of TV executives and arena managers. Chokehold is an explosive indictment of the pro wrestling industrys business practices as well as a thoughtful proposal for pro wrestlings reform. This book is not a conventional expos of pro wrestlings orchestrated stunts, gimmicks and blade jobs. Instead, it is an unprecedented examination of pro wrestlings less visible cons outside the ring -- its hidden manipulation of wrestlers with broken promises and broken bones and a backstage power of the pencil that writes scripts for wrestler stardom or extinction. Chokehold describes a secret slice of the wrestling life where traveling troupes of heels and babyfaces understand how they got into the game, but cannot find a way up or out. This is the story of why and how the big guys almost always lose. Chokehold is part autobiography and part pro wrestling history. Written in wrestlespeak (the industrys insider argot), it is dedicated to the memory of the older boys whose broken bodies and shattered lives should have taught us something. In addition to Jim Wilsons experiences in The Business, this book reviews significant but forgotten episodes in the wrestling industrys long history of gangland tactics. The industrys infamous blacklist is revisited by revealing the dozens of wrestlers from the past whose names were on it. The industrys history of predatory promotional wars in California, Georgia, Texas and Virginia is told with FBI reports obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. From court documents, this book names compromised state athletic commissions, TV station managers and local politicians from wrestlings viewpoint, the best that money could buy. There are many famous wrestling names in this book --Gorgeous George, Lou Thesz, Jack Brisco, the Funk brothers, Dusty Rhodes, Bruiser Brody, Bill Watts and others. Another is The Sheik (Eddie Farhat), who says: There aint no nice guys in this business. There aint no people theres dollars! Another is Jim Wilsons tag team partner Thunderbolt Patterson who warned Jim, The wrestling business takes advantage of anybody who has any notoriety or ability. You got to understand that wrestlers are worse than whores. They are pimped. They use you as long as they possibly can or as long as you dont complain. When you complain, they get rid of you. Another is Jim Wilsons friend The Magnificent Zulu (Ron Pope) who summarizes his career this way: Its such a crooked business. The guys [wrestlers] are a bunch of crooks. They steal from the marks and the promoters steal from them. The guys [wrestlers] want to be stars! Theyll do anything theyll cut throats for it. Actually, wrestlers dont have to be paid. All they need is a couple of six packs of beer a night and a nice looking ring rat with a good body. Or, drugs and a ring rat. Its not the money. Its being a star! Its the glory and the pussy! This book confronts the wrestling industrys traditional practice of punishing wrestlers who refuse
Book Synopsis Champion Wrestler by : Fatih Türkoğlu
Download or read book Champion Wrestler written by Fatih Türkoğlu and published by Fatih Türkoğlu. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dünyaca tanınmış Türk güreşçisi Yaşar Doğu'nun doğumundan vefatına kadar güreşleri ve uluslar arası başarılarıları biyografik roman şeklinde kaleme alınmıştır.
Book Synopsis The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography by : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Download or read book The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain kind of hero to hoist that wolfman overhead into an airplane spin, follow with a body slam, drop an atomic elbow across his mangy neck, leg-lock him until he howls, and pin his furry back to the mat for a three-count. It takes a Mexican masked wrestler. Add a few half-naked vampire women, Aztec mummies, mad scientists, evil midgets from space, and a goateed Frankenstein monster, and you have just some of the elements of Mexican masked wrestler and monster movies, certainly among the most bizarre, surreal and imaginative films ever produced. This filmography features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns ever concocted--Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne'er-do-wells, be it in caves, cobwebbed castles or in the ring. From the 1950s to the 1970s, these movies were staples of Mexican cinema, combining action, horror, sex, science fiction and comedy into a bizarre amalgam aimed to please the whole family. Chapters examine the roots of the phenomenon, including the hugely popular masked wrestling scene and the classic Universal horror films from which Mexican filmmakers stole without compunction. Subsequent chapters focus on El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, the three most prominent masked wrestlers; wrestling women; other less prominent masked wrestlers; and the insane mish-mash of monsters pitted against the heroes. Each chapter includes background information and a full filmography, and a wide assortment of striking illustrations--posters, lobby cards and other graphic material, some better than the movies they advertised--accompany the text.
Book Synopsis Professional Wrestling and the Law by : Alex B. Long
Download or read book Professional Wrestling and the Law written by Alex B. Long and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a law professor (who also happens to be a wrestling fan), this book is an entertaining and informative exploration of legal cases involving professional wrestling. Relying upon judicial decisions and court documents, it discusses the legal theories and procedures involved in legal disputes involving professional wrestling and explores how the legal system--an institution devoted to arriving at the truth involved in any conflict--has dealt with the business of professional wrestling, a business with a long history of obscuring the truth. Topics include: the legal issues involved when a wrestler goes into the crowd and beats up a fan; Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against World Championship Wrestling for statements made during a live pay-per-view event; and race and sex discrimination in professional wrestling.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Buchi Emecheta's "The Wrestling Match" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Buchi Emecheta's "The Wrestling Match" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Buchi Emecheta's "The Wrestling Match," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Book Synopsis Wrestliana; Or, The History of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Society in London Since the Year 1824 by : Walter ARMSTRONG (of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Club.)
Download or read book Wrestliana; Or, The History of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Society in London Since the Year 1824 written by Walter ARMSTRONG (of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Wrestling Club.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fencing. Boxing. Wrestling by : Walter Pollock
Download or read book Fencing. Boxing. Wrestling written by Walter Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of a Wimpy Kid written by and published by BMI Educational Services. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
