The Champ of T.V. Wrestling

Which Way Books #22

by Barbara Siegel, Scott Siegel, Joseph A. Smith (Illustrator)

You've decided to go after the Champ of TV Wrestling - Carl the Colossus! He's the meanest, dirtiest, most lowdown rascal you've ever seen! But to get to the Champ, you'll have to get by Vampire Vic, who bites his opponents' necks, and Awesome Al, a five-hundred-pound giant who is as sneaky as he is big! They'll do anything they can to toss you out of the ring!

If you make the right moves, not only will you win your matches, but you might become the host of your own TV wrestling show or be discovered by Sylvester Saloon, the famous movie actor. Anything can happen in the wacky world of wrestling!

So flex your muscles and get ready for action! And if you get pinned for the three-count, don't despair. Just go back to the beginning and start again.

THIS ADVENTURE BELONGS TO YOU! WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WHICH-WAY BOOKS - WHERE YOU MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

Genres: Gamebooks

118 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 1, 1986

Reviews

[Nick Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

Written by a duo that clearly have no knowledge of or interest in professional wrestling, this book offers a caricature filled with gibberish move names, no understanding of how a match works, and forces you to veer off into other careers because the authors thought them more interesting than the subject at hand. You're variously forced to become a football player, musician, movie star, announcer, and television interviewer without warning, justification, or ability to say "Pardon me, but my goal is to become 'The Champ of T.V. Wrestling' and I am not looking to change occupations at the moment." There's a great deal of randomness in this book where there's no logical reason to choose one action over another (If you try to use your Westbound Freight Train Precocious Arm Grab Spinnamajig, turn to page 119, or if you attempt a Backhanded Complementary Sandwich-Eating Penguin Destructinator Smash, turn to page 5462) and the "wrong" choice often nabs you a bad ending. It's also plagued with terrible jokes, because the writers really wanted the reader to know that they felt nothing other than disdain for the subject matter.

At least in the boring Choose Your Own Adventure sports books a kid that's a fan will get something out of it because they were usually written by enthusiasts of that sport. This was written by people who hated professional wrestling and it shows. They couldn't even get the title right, so if somebody ever writes a CYOA-style book called The World Champion of Professional Wrestling, let me know. It'd at least show that they were trying.