The Road Warriors Danger Death And The Rush Of Wrestling

Author : Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis,Andrew William Wright
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605421643

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The Road Warriors: Danger, Death and the Rush of Wrestling by Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis,Andrew William Wright Pdf

Delivering an inside account of one of wrestling's most famous fighters, this autobiography offers a rare chance to learn about Joe "Animal" Laurinaitis's life both inside and outside the ring. Revealing riveting stories about his participation in the 1980s and 1990s superstar wrestling team the Road Warriors, it recounts memorable fights with his partner Mike "Hawk" Hegstrand. He describes how he and Mike rose to become a revolutionary tag team—reinventing themselves with spiky accessories and wearing face paint before it was popular—and chronicles famous rivalries, movement between different wrestling associations, and dealing with Mike's longtime struggle with drugs and alcohol. He also invites fans into his personal life and discusses his family and newfound Christian faith. Featuring stories of incredible physical feats and deep-felt companionship, this testimony will help fans relive the glory days of a wrestling legacy.

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810879263

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Historical Dictionary of Wrestling by John Grasso Pdf

This dictionary covers Wrestling’s history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important amateur and professional wrestling, wrestling personalities, announcers, wrestling organizations, and managers and promoters from all eras.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2291 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular WWE Hall of Fame by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : James Dixon,Justin Henry,RD Reynolds,Benjamin Richardson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Wrestling
ISBN : 9781326685591

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Titan Screwed: Lost Smiles, Stunners, and Screwjobs by James Dixon,Justin Henry,RD Reynolds,Benjamin Richardson Pdf

"To level up to the pedestal of World Championship Wrestling and end the ratings disparity of the Monday Night Wars, Vince McMahon knew he had to reinvent his business come the dawn of 1997. But the question was, how? The time-tested ethos of World Wrestling Federation programming and booking was about to be cast to the wind, trampled beneath the sudden embrace of excessive violence, adult themes, and the fostering of internal conflicts to be served up to a gawking audience. Through those conflicts, McMahon had to make extremely bold decisions in regards to the population at the top of his roster. One particular controversy would forever change the perception of the World Wrestling Federation, with shockingly positive implications. The perceived 'second-place' promotion suddenly came roaring back, ironically looking to draw blood after previously disallowing it. Through McMahon's glaring eyes, 1997 was the year that the 'good guys' broke all the rules to regain the edge."--Page [4] of cover.

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798216132646

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Pro Wrestling by Lew Freedman Pdf

This book provides readers with an abundance of information and historical perspective as well as entertaining and memorable anecdotes about professional wrestling. Readers will also learn unusual snippets of trivia that will enhance their comprehension of the sport. This authoritative work on the history and culture of professional wrestling features the biggest names in the wrestling world since the sport emerged on the American sporting landscape. It comprises short biographies of all of the key players in the sport's evolution and rise to popularity—from old-timers to barrier breakers to household names such as Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Andre the Giant, and more—and includes not only men but also many women who have made a name in the sport. Surveying professional wrestling from its roots, dating centuries, to the modern era, pre–20th century and into the 21st century, the work tells the transformational stories of prominent wrestlers and the sport as a whole, in many cases bringing out the humor and outrageousness in the nature of an activity that has always straddled the line between show business and sport.

Author : Booker T Huffman,Andrew William Wright
Publisher : Medallion Media Group
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781605424873

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Booker T: From Prison to Promise by Booker T Huffman,Andrew William Wright Pdf

As a six-time world champion, TV commentator, and holder of more than 35 major titles in WWE, WCW, and TNA, Huffman knows what it means to fight. He learned long before he entered the ring, when daily survival was a fierce battle.

Author : Tom Nichols
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780197763834

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The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols Pdf

"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--

Author : John Eldredge
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400200399

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Wild at Heart by John Eldredge Pdf

In all your boyhood dreams of growing up, did you dream of being a "nice guy"? Eldredge believes that every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God made him to be.

Author : Joseph S. Alter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520912179

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The Wrestler's Body by Joseph S. Alter Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553659709

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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Pdf

"An unforgettable work of art."—The National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well.

Author : Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781554807949

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A Book of Golden Deeds (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition) by Charlotte M. Yonge Pdf

Author : Jimmy Snuka,Jon Chattman
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1600787584

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Superfly by Jimmy Snuka,Jon Chattman Pdf

"Focusing on the superstar who single-handedly influenced the development of sports entertainment, this autobiography highlights the legacy of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) icon Jimmy Snuka. The wrestler's legendary top-rope maneuvers, innovative high-flying style, and unprecedented aerial ability made him the most popular competitor in WWE. This fascinating account relates how a native of the Fiji Islands was at the center of two of wrestling's most talked-about moments: the night Snuka leapt from the top of the 15-foot cage--only to miss his opponent and consequently lose the match--and the night Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Snuka's head during a segment of Piper's Pit in 1984. Exposing the amazing life of this WWE Hall of Fame member in detail, this record presents the ups and downs of a wrestler who grew to be a key figure in the expansion of the company and all professional wrestling"--

Author : Mike Tyson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780142181218

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Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson Pdf

Be sure to check out IRON AMBITION: My Life with Cus D’Amato by Mike Tyson “Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street Journal Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brilliance in the ring was often compromised by reckless behavior. Yet—even after hitting rock bottom—the man who once admitted being addicted “to everything” fought his way back, achieving triumphant success as an actor and newfound happiness and stability as a father and husband. Brutal, honest, raw, and often hilarious, Undisputed Truth is the singular journey of an inspiring American original.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 031604928X

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The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea Pdf

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."

Author : Erin Hunter
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061757396

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Warriors: Power of Three #2: Dark River by Erin Hunter Pdf

Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series continues with the second book in the Power of Three series! The second book in this third series, Warriors: Power of Three #2: Dark River, brings more adventure, intrigue, and thrilling battles to the epic world of the warrior Clans. Lionpaw, Hollypaw, and Jaypaw, grandchildren of the Clan leader Firestar, are thriving as ThunderClan apprentices. Yet their new responsibilities bring new dangers, and each young cat is about to discover darkness: in the past, in the Clans—and in themselves.