Wrestling History Revisited Rewriting The Events That Shaped The Wrestling Business
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Wrestling History Revisited Rewriting The Events That Shaped The Wrestling Business
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-18
Wrestling History Revisited Rewriting The Events That Shaped The Wrestling Business written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-18 with categories.
The past thirty years of the wrestling business have been a very tumultuous time, as what was once a regional business grew into a national, and eventually global, entertainment industry. That history is loaded with pivotal moments where one slight change could have had a massive ripple effect that completely changed the landscape of wrestling as we know it today.This collecting of Wrestling History Revisited titles looks at many such pivotal moments in the history of WCW. How would things have been different if Hulk Hogan had never gone to WCW? What if the NWO invasion never happened? What would WCW storylines have looked like if they survived past March of 2001? How might they have tried to recover after the disastrous Hogan-Sting match at Starrcade 1997? What if Sid Vicious had never been fired after his hotel brawl with Arn Anderson? What if the WWF bought the remains of Jim Crockett Promotions in 1988 instead of 2001?This book explores each of these scenarios to determine what might, and very easily could, have been.
Wrestling History Revisited
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-12-17
Wrestling History Revisited written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-17 with categories.
Booking a professional wrestling company is a tough job. It's not easy trying to come up with storylines that would satisfy the three main goals of making sense, making money, and making everyone involved come out looking as strong as possible. Sometimes you get lucky and you hit on something great that draws you a ton of money, and sometimes the ideas you think are absolute genius completely crash and burn the instant they land in front of a paying crowd.This book takes us back in time to some situations that worked better on paper than they did in practice, and lets us take another stab at them with the power of 20/20 hindsight vision. What if Hulk Hogan didn't go to WCW in 1994? How could ROH have been booked differently during the HDNet era? How might WCW have tried to rebuild after the badly-botched Starrcade 1997 Pay Per View?This book not only attempts to answer those questions, it also features the first edition of the Book Like WWE Challenge, where we take a group of talented stars with tons of potential, and...well, book them like WWE would! Nonsensical turns, an evil Commissioner, a glass ceiling, and more gimmick matches than you can shake a stick at are all part of the fun!This book contains the following bonus features:-The Nature Boy Comes Home: Ric Flair's 1993 Return To WCW-The 6 Biggest Failed Attempts To Create The Next Big Superstar
Wrestling History Revisited Rewriting The Hdnet Era Of Ring Of Honor
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Wrestling History Revisited Rewriting The Hdnet Era Of Ring Of Honor written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with categories.
Ring of Honor was shaken to its very core when its longtime booker Gabe Sapolsky, who had been the company's creative mind since it first opened its doors, was let go in October of 2008. The very idea of ROH without Gabe was almost impossible for many fans to conceive, but that's the unexplored territory we were about to enter. Adam Pearce was announced as Gabe's replacement, and in addition to being put in the unenviable position of having to follow Gabe's highly-regarded creative tenure, he would also lead ROH into another new frontier: television. After seven years as a DVD-only product, ROH would finally make its long-awaited TV debut on Mark Cuban's HDNet in March of 2009.Unfortunately, storylines at this time weren't exactly hitting on all cylinders. Nearly everything Pearce did was negatively compared to Gabe Sapolsky's work, and by changing the overall vibe of the ROH product, many longtime fans who had supported them since the beginning started leaving in droves. This book steps back in time to give the early TV era of Ring of Honor another shot by shaping a product more in line with the traditional Ring of Honor style!
Wrestling History Revisited The Book Like Wwe Challenge
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Wrestling History Revisited The Book Like Wwe Challenge written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with categories.
Booking a professional wrestling company is a tough job. It's not easy trying to come up with storylines that would satisfy the three main goals of making sense, making money, and making everyone involved come out looking as strong as possible. Sometimes you get lucky and you hit on something great that draws you a ton of money, and sometimes the ideas you think are absolute genius completely crash and burn the instant they land in front of a paying crowd. The Wrestling History Revisited series takes us back in time to some situations that worked better on paper than they did in practice, and lets us take another stab at them with the power of 20/20 hindsight vision.We've spent seven volumes reshaping bad wrestling to make it into good wrestling, but what if we tried it the other way around? To that end, this book takes a group of young, underutilized WWE talents from the year 2009, mixes them together with a batch of overexposed veterans and non-wrestlers who could be pushed at their expense, and lets the sparks fly! Evil commissioners, nonsensical turns, and gimmick matches abound in the first ever Book Like WWE Challenge!
Wrestling History Revisited Rebuilding Wwe After The Wcw Ecw Invasion
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Wrestling History Revisited Rebuilding Wwe After The Wcw Ecw Invasion written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with categories.
The WWF did big business during the Attitude Era and, in March of 2001, found itself standing alone as the sole wrestling superpower in the wrestling business when both ECW and WCW folded within weeks of each other. What happened afterward, once there was no longer competition to risk losing audience to, was nothing short of a disaster. Steve Austin was turned heel to form an alliance with Vince McMahon, then the WCW InVasion was completely botched and the entire WCW roster buried. A second InVasion of former ECW stars was similarly botched, and then the aftermath of the feud (which was blown through in six months) saw Chris Jericho unify the two World Titles before losing them at Wrestlemania to Triple H in what really amounted to a feud between Triple H and Stephanie McMahon with Jericho as Stephanie's proxy. By Wrestlemania X-8, most fans came to the stark realization the Attitude Era was over and was never coming back. But could it have been saved? Yes, absolutely. There were a million and one chances over the years since when they could have steered things in a better direction and almost did, but ended up choosing not to and left us with the family action adventure drama we watch on Monday nights. This book takes us back in time to March of 2001 to nip this downward slide in the bud before it gets that far.
The Comic Book Story Of Professional Wrestling
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Author : Aubrey Sitterson
language : en
Publisher: Ten Speed Graphic
Release Date : 2018-10-02
The Comic Book Story Of Professional Wrestling written by Aubrey Sitterson and has been published by Ten Speed Graphic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved sport and form of entertainment. As a pop culture phenomenon, professional wrestling--with its heroic babyfaces and villainous heels performing suplexes and powerbombs in pursuit of championship gold--has conquered audiences in the United States and around the world. Now, writer/podcaster Aubrey Sitterson and illustrator Chris Moreno form a graphic novel tag team to present wrestling's complete illustrated history. Featuring legendary wrestlers like Bruno Sammartino, Hulk Hogan, and The Rock, and modern-day favorites like John Cena, Kenny Omega, and Sasha Banks, the book covers wrestling's progress from the carnival days of the Gold Dust Trio to the dominance of the WWF/WWE to today's diverse independent wrestling scene, and it spotlights wrestling's reach into Mexico/Puerto Rico (lucha libre), the U.K. (all-in), and Japan (puroresu).
Wrestling History Revisited Rebuilding Wcw After Starrcade 1997
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Author : Stuart Carapola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-29
Wrestling History Revisited Rebuilding Wcw After Starrcade 1997 written by Stuart Carapola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-29 with categories.
Starrcade 1997 was the biggest event in WCW history, featuring the long awaited Hulk Hogan-Sting main event that was supposed to be the culmination of the 18 month NWO invasion angle. Unfortunately, the whole show went to hell when, after a mess of an undercard, Hogan squashed and pinned Sting clean in the main event. They used a bogus fast count by the referee to restart the match and give Sting the win, but the damage was done, and WCW began a long downward slide that eventually resulted in the company shutting its doors and selling to WWE in 2001.This book looks at how WCW might have been salvaged in the wake of the disaster that was Starrcade 1997, and how the many, MANY mistakes they made in the year afterward could have been avoided. Then, we see how the criminally underutilized young talent that ended up leaving for WWE could have been used to not only salvage WCW, but bring it back to the top of the wrestling business!
Pain And Passion
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Author : Heath McCoy
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2010-12-14
Pain And Passion written by Heath McCoy and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The wild blood-on-the-mat saga of the rise and fall of the infamous Stampede Wrestling company.
Backlund
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Author : Bob Backlund
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Backlund written by Bob Backlund and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Bob Backlund began life as a poor farm boy in the little village of Princeton, Minnesota, with a population of just over 2,000 people. He was a below-average student with a lackluster work ethic and a bad attitude, who hung with the wrong crowd and made a lot of bad choices. He was a kid whose life was headed for disaster—until a local coach took interest in him, suggested that he take up amateur wrestling, and offered to work with him if he promised to stay out of trouble. It was in North Dakota that Bob Backlund had the first of several chance encounters that would shape his destiny. While working out at the YMCA gymnasium in Fargo, North Dakota, where he wrestled for North Dakota State, Backlund met a well-known professional wrestler, “Superstar” Billy Graham. The men talked, and at Graham’s suggestion, Backlund was inspired to pursue a career in professional wrestling. Less than five years from that day, on February 20, 1978, Backlund would find himself halfway across the country, standing in the middle of the ring at Madison Square Garden with his hand raised in victory as the newly crowned World Wide Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion. The man Backlund pinned for the championship that night was none other than "Superstar" Billy Graham. Featuring contributions from Bruno Sammartino, Harley Race, Terry Funk, Pat Patterson, Ken Patera, Sergeant Slaughter, The Magnificent Muraco, George “The Animal” Steele, “Mr. USA” Tony Atlas, The Iron Sheik, and many others, this book tells the incredible story of the life and nearly forty-year career of one of the most famous men to ever grace the squared circle. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Death Of Wcw The
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Author : R.D. Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: ECW Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Death Of Wcw The written by R.D. Reynolds and has been published by ECW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
As history repeats itself, a wrestling classic becomes even more relevant. 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 Wrestling Entertainment. WCW was laid to rest. What went wrong? This expanded and updated version of the bestselling Death of WCW takes readers through a detailed dissection of WCW's downfall, including even more commentary from the men who were there and serves as an object lesson - and dire warning - as WWE and TNA hurtle toward the 15th anniversary of WCW's demise.