As seen on Who Killed WCW? - the four-part VICE TV docuseriesPOST Wrestling 'Book of the Year'The famous best seller - now expanded in e-book form!SynopsisIn April 1999, Entertainment Weekly asked its readers what many were surely wondering to themselves: how did wrestling get so big?As a consequence of the heated ratings competition between World Championsh...

Bestselling author Guy Evans ('NITRO') returns with a monumental volume on World Championship Wrestling, bringing to light scores of revelatory insights in the process. Informed by over 100 new interviews, hundreds of internal company documents, confidential corporate materials, and never-before-seen financial records, BEYOND NITRO goes to places that no pro wrestling book has!BEYOND NITRO is divided into three parts, as outlined below:

TEXT ONLY EDITIONFrom 1995 to 2001, Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) famously battled Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) for Monday night ratings supremacy. While on the WCW side, numerous autobiographical accounts have been written of the time period, relatively few participants witnessed the 'War' in its entirety. As the unmistakable 'voice of WCW' and its long-time ring announcer, David Penzer was featured on every episode of Mon...

TEXT ONLY EDITION2001: A Wrestling Odyssey.With the wrestling business still reeling from the recent sale of WCW, David Penzer exits the company with an uncertain path ahead. At first, David finds a measure of comfort in the form of a (short-term) severance agreement, but as the weeks and months progress, his future appears increasingly in doubt. Is this the effective end for our personable protagonist?Spoiler alert: no - it isn't! As such,...

Reviews"A hell of a read...some incredible stuff on [Hulk] Hogan, being a son and father, aging, Vince McMahon and more. Well worth checking out...[a] truly enjoyable and emotional book."--Mike Johnson, PWInsider"Bischoff's take on his [2019 WWE return], the reality of what he was in charge of versus what was reported at the time, is valuable knowledge to take away from the book...[furthermore], the bonus content makes the book more than wort...

For decades, distinct professional wrestling territories thrived across North America. Each regionally based promotion operated individually and offered a brand of localized wrestling that greatly appealed to area fans. Promoters routinely coordinated with associates in surrounding regions, and the cooperation displayed by members of the National Wrestling Alliance made it easy for wrestlers to traverse the landscape with the utmost freedom.Dozens of territories flourished between ...

The brothers and tag team professional wrestlers recount their journey to success in this "intriguing, personal, family-centered" memoir (Library Journal)."These guys are the pioneers of making it BIG in the pro wrestling business outside of the corporate structure by doing things their own way. . . . Matt and Nick are the true definition of success in the wrestling world . . .and beyond." —Chris Jericho, multiple-time world champion and author of three

The legendary storytellers worthy of a spot in the pro wrestling hall of fameYou can’t escape pro wrestling today, even if you want to. Its stars are ubiquitous in movies, TV shows, product endorsements, swag, and social media to the point that they are as much celebrities as they are athletes. Pro wrestling has morphed from the fringes of acceptability to a global $1 billion industry that plays an everyday role in 21st-century pop culture.In this latest ad...

A behind-the-scenes look at over a century of female wrestling, with profiles and photos**, documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event**“Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is absolutely a must read for most fans . . .” Wrestle Book ReviewFrom the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s main events, this book offers a look at the business of women’s wrestling with its backstage politics, r...

WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually a reasonable idea? Was George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle, really the best gimmick that a major promotional organization could come up with? And who would charge fans to watch a wrestle...

In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. It was the number-one pro wrestling company in the world, and the highest-rated show on cable television. Each week, fans tuned in to Monday Nitro, flocked to sold-out arenas, and carried home truckloads of WCW merchandise. It seemed the company could do no wrong.But by 2001, however, everything had bottomed out. The company — having lost a whopping 95% of its audience — was sold for next to nothing to Vince McMahon and World Wrestl...

The Wrestling Biography You’ve Been Waiting For!There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that’s just not JR.Slobberknocker is the story of how an Oklahoman farm kid, with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became “The Voice of Wrestling” to record TV aud...