false 924652 2437468 1550227874 9781550227871 2 <![CDATA[Pain and Passion: The History of Stampede Wrestling]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2437468.Pain_and_Passion_The_History_of_Stampede_Wrestling 4.38 8 Pain and Passion tells how a small, family–run wrestling business profoundly influenced the world of professional wrestling as we know it today.

Pain and Passion takes readers on a rowdy ride through the evolution of Stu Hart’s Calgary promotion, from its meagre beginnings in the 1940s, its peak in the 1980s, and its fall as Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment changed the face of wrestling forever.

But this is more than a wrestling story — it’s a tale of family and of human tragedy. The Hart family lived for the wrestling business and, like Starbucks mowing down a mom–and–pop coffee shop, the emergence of McMahon’s media colossus ran Stampede into the ground. The wrestling game lost its innocence and western Canada lost a staple of its pop culture. As for the Hart family, the once–mighty clan was nearly destroyed by the business it loved.

The Stampede Wrestling story is a wild blood–on–the–mat saga over fifty years in the making. It’s sure to captivate not only wrestling fans, but anyone who appreciates a powerful drama.

]]> 924652 4.11 9 3 2007 2033109 1550228129 9781550228120 1 <![CDATA[Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2033109.Benoit_Wrestling_with_the_Horror_That_Destroyed_a_Family_and_Crippled_a_Sport 2.00 1
The book will discuss the subject from distinct perspectives:
* The media’s coverage of the story and the role of the media in the story itself will be covered by Steven Johnson.
* Heath McCoy establishes the facts of the case and examines Benoit’s Alberta wrestling roots.
* Irvin Muchnick gives his opinion on the pop-cultural relevance and the place of this tragedy in wrestling’s dark history.
* Greg Oliver discusses the Benoit story in the context of the pro-wrestling industry and personal correspondence with Benoit.]]> 1563 3.73 4256 1054 924652 4.11 9 3 924653 2.00 1 1 155766 4.00 18 2 2007 2556769 097367198X 9780973671988 0 <![CDATA[Pain and Passion : The History of Stampede Wrestling]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2556769.Pain_and_Passion_The_History_of_Stampede_Wrestling 0.0 0 924652 4.11 9 3 2005