Sports books/autobiographies

[corn02]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

There are plenty out there Nail. A few of them tell all the juicy gossip, for example, ITS FAKE!!!!!!!

Indeed it is fake, what that has to do with this thread I don not know?

Wrestling is easily one of the most dangerous (drugs/serious injury), corrupt, and tragic sports - therefore autbiographies should always be very good.

Read Hart's book SK and then tell me if fakeness comes into it in terms of biographies.

[lynchbhoy]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

Jericho's is by far the best and funniest wrestling one i've read. Even better than Harts and Foleys. Loadsa road stories and you wouldn't have to be a wrestling fan at all to enjoy it. It ends with him entering the WWE so a second volume is likely in future.
Avoid the official WWE ones cuz they censor all the bitching, sex and craic stories.

I'd say Dynamite Kid's is the best of all of them - it's very hard to get a hold of though

does it talk about his tag team exploits with the british bulldog and chocolate kid ?

(in short - yer showng yer age !)

[Dinny Breen]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

Jericho's is by far the best and funniest wrestling one i've read. Even better than Harts and Foleys. Loadsa road stories and you wouldn't have to be a wrestling fan at all to enjoy it. It ends with him entering the WWE so a second volume is likely in future.
Avoid the official WWE ones cuz they censor all the bitching, sex and craic stories.

I'd say Dynamite Kid's is the best of all of them - it's very hard to get a hold of though

does it talk about his tag team exploits with the british bulldog and chocolate kid ?

(in short - yer showng yer age !)

Get out of that Lynchbhoy you're more of a Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy generation....

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Dynamite's book definitely looks at the dark side of the business (very detailed about steroid use and the likes - including one story when Davey Boy moved to Calgary to start training and paid Dynamite to get him steroids - Dynamite spent the money and took to injecting Davey Boy with milk instead of steroids for a month).

He was a mad fecker too - read the stories that Bret says about him in his book. Actually - the whole Hart family is messed up

[SidelineKick]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

There are plenty out there Nail. A few of them tell all the juicy gossip, for example, ITS FAKE!!!!!!!

Indeed it is fake, what that has to do with this thread I don not know?

Wrestling is easily one of the most dangerous (drugs/serious injury), corrupt, and tragic sports - therefore autbiographies should always be very good.

Read Hart's book SK and then tell me if fakeness comes into it in terms of biographies.

Wrestling is a sport?

A scripted "battle" between grown men fake punching each other is a sport?

Ok.

I'm sure the autobiographies are very good.  The "sport" itself is not*


* unless you are aged 4 - 10.

[corn02]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

There are plenty out there Nail. A few of them tell all the juicy gossip, for example, ITS FAKE!!!!!!!

Indeed it is fake, what that has to do with this thread I don not know?

Wrestling is easily one of the most dangerous (drugs/serious injury), corrupt, and tragic sports - therefore autbiographies should always be very good.

Read Hart's book SK and then tell me if fakeness comes into it in terms of biographies.

Wrestling is a sport?

A scripted "battle" between grown men fake punching each other is a sport?

Ok.

I'm sure the autobiographies are very good.  The "sport" itself is not*


* unless you are aged 4 - 10.

Definition of sport; an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment


I actually did not mean to say sport, I think it is called sports entertainment.

Anyway you miss the point - justbecaus it is fake does not mean the autobiographies are not brilliant.

[SidelineKick]

I know, I was just being twisty.

I'm glad you know its sports entertainment otherwise me and Our Nail having a farting competition for your entertainment could also be called a sport (and could potentially be more dangerous than wrestling).

I wouldn't actually mind reading one of the autobiographies as I'm sure theres alot of bitchin' and back stabbing goes on.  They wouldnt all be best buds I'm sure!

What's the jist of Harts?

[lynchbhoy]

So no other wrestling ones? I see there are plenty on the market but I on't wanna buy them if they aren't gonna be juicy and reveal all the behind the scenes gossip

Jericho's is by far the best and funniest wrestling one i've read. Even better than Harts and Foleys. Loadsa road stories and you wouldn't have to be a wrestling fan at all to enjoy it. It ends with him entering the WWE so a second volume is likely in future.
Avoid the official WWE ones cuz they censor all the bitching, sex and craic stories.

I'd say Dynamite Kid's is the best of all of them - it's very hard to get a hold of though

does it talk about his tag team exploits with the british bulldog and chocolate kid ?

(in short - yer showng yer age !)

Get out of that Lynchbhoy you're more of a Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy generation....

I actually saw all of those mentioned wrestling live many moons ago 

[corn02]

I know, I was just being twisty.

I'm glad you know its sports entertainment otherwise me and Our Nail having a farting competition for your entertainment could also be called a sport (and could potentially be more dangerous than wrestling).

I wouldn't actually mind reading one of the autobiographies as I'm sure theres alot of bitchin' and back stabbing goes on.  They wouldnt all be best buds I'm sure!

What's the jist of Harts?

The jists? Drugs, deaths, sex, more deaths, money, death, back stabbing, deaths, success, more drugs, belfast, sex, deaths.

One of the most interesting things is how in the 70s that most believed it was actaully real and the efforts they went to to keep it that way.

[Our Nail Loney]

I know, I was just being twisty.

I'm glad you know its sports entertainment otherwise me and Our Nail having a farting competition for your entertainment could also be called a sport (and could potentially be more dangerous than wrestling).

I wouldn't actually mind reading one of the autobiographies as I'm sure theres alot of bitchin' and back stabbing goes on.  They wouldnt all be best buds I'm sure!

What's the jist of Harts?

The jists? Drugs, deaths, sex, more deaths, money, death, back stabbing, deaths, success, more drugs, belfast, sex, deaths.

One of the most interesting things is how in the 70s that most believed it was actaully real and the efforts they went to to keep it that way.

Have you read about the Montreal Screwjob yet? Where McMahon double crossed Hart by changing the outcome of his match against Shawn Michaels at the last minute without telling Hart?

[SidelineKick]

Would he not need to know to play along with it???

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Would he not need to know to play along with it???

If you've 20 minutes read this

http://brethart.info/wrestling-observer-newsletter/

[behind the wire]

Any more books to be recommended?

Has anyone evr read Never Die easy by Walter Payton?

[lurganblue]

reading Neil Lennon's book "Man and Bhoy" at the minute. i'm up to the final in Seville. Interesting enough book but i wouldnt say its a classic. I suppose i have an interest in his career, with him coming from lurgan.

[Denn Forever]

Tony Cascarino's is not a bad read. 

Full Time: The Secret Life of Tony Cascarino. Simon & Schuster/TownHouse. 2000