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Drawing Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works
A personal and insightfulspectacle that, despite mistakes and controversies, continues to win the devotion of fans. Revealing personal experiences with zeal, this tell-all is the ultimate take on what it means to be a wrestling fan from someone who understands the inner workings of the business.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by ECW Press
(first published 2009)
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a really great look into the inner workings of pro wrestling by someone who was the right hand man of arguably one of the greatest/most powerful promoters of all time. He talks about lots of different topics, and the organization is a bit scattershot, but very informative. I had to drop a star though, for two reasons- 1)the whole "Everything Vince McMahon does is perfect/there is a reason for everything the wwe does even if you dumb internet fans don't know it (I would like to hear if he ...more
Larry Matysik, the face of Wrestling at the Chase and author of two other books about wrestling, gives more of his insight into the wrestling business...
First things first, I loved Larry's other two books about wrestling, Wrestling at Chase and Brody. That's why it pains me to say this book was meh city. It felt like stuff that wasn't good enough for the other two books, as well as stretching some topics that got a paragraph in Wrestling at the Chase into chapters and milking the hel...more
First things first, I loved Larry's other two books about wrestling, Wrestling at Chase and Brody. That's why it pains me to say this book was meh city. It felt like stuff that wasn't good enough for the other two books, as well as stretching some topics that got a paragraph in Wrestling at the Chase into chapters and milking the hel...more
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People who don't like this book are probably overwhelmed with the detail in behind the scenes business, almost no focus on superstars except to critique the backstage credit, and pretty much no in-ring action at all. That being said, it was exactly what I was looking for.
An interesting look at the backstage aspect of the pro wrestling business. While the subject matter is "right up my alley" - I found the way the author presented the material extremely dry.
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