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Summary: Don't be without it!
Comment: Ideal for people with an interest in Pro Wrestling who do not like to see the subject matter being over-intellectualised.
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Summary: "Idiot's"? Yeah, if you mean the author. Complete garbage!
Comment: Lou Albano and Burt Sugar give you all the low down on the wrestling industry, including real names. Did you know that The Rock's real name is Rocky Melvin? I didn't. I bet he didn't either.
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Summary: Basic, basic, basic
Comment: If you're a complete wrestling addict, this book will fail to enthrall you. There are a few nuggets of entertaining information, but for the most part, this book is for people who really don't know much about the world of sports entertainment. The bios on the wrestlers are dated and are angled from the character's aspects, rather than the real life stats of the wrestlers themselves.
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Summary: Consider the title to be a WARNING:
Comment: This book is so badly-written as to make me wonder exactly who the market audience would be. The only person I could really see benefitting from Albano's and Sugar's frequent factual errors and glossing-overs would be someone who has seen wrestling on TV a few times, found it to be less awful than they expected, and want to know more about what they're watching. Anybody with more than a passing interest in this form of entertainment will be left sorely disappointed.So many things about this book bugged me: the fact that half the time, the authors act as if wrestling is real (especially Albano, when he is recounting his days in the WWF)...the fact that they suggest that the reader only follow one federation (so we don't bite off more than we can chew, supposedly)...the fact that their description of "the moves of pro wrestling" don't explain that the moves for the most part DON'T hurt the opponent...the fact that they consistently refer to Real Life in wrestling as "real-real" (when any mark or carny knows it's "shoot") and to the bad guys as "villains" (not "heels," as they're known to wrestlers). A thousand factual errors share pages with a thousand typographical errors.
Basically, this is a book which purports to be an "insider view" of professional wrestling, but which is written by two people from the outside who feel the need to keep the illusion of "wrestling as real-life violence." There's some interesting information about the earliest days at the turn of the 20th century, but it's hard to believe it as gospel when ten pages later the authors are telling you that Kane and the Undertaker are really brothers, that the first ladder match was in ECW, that Onita's barbed-wire cage uses real live electricity, and not just fireworks.
Rather than really explain what goes on in the industry (from backstage to in the ring), they try to get the reader to choose one of the two major companies (now, of course, there's only one) and believe that it's real. This may have been the way fans were in the 70s, but by now, for some reason, we are all in on the gag. All of us, apparently, except Albano and Sugar.
If you are in fact a Complete Idiot, and you need to spend 19 bucks to have someone tell you that you can look up a favorite wrestler on search engines for more information, then go ahead and buy this book. Otherwise, steer clear or get it at a Salvation Army like I did.
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Summary: Pretty awful
Comment: It is quite sad that Lou Albano, who had such long history in wrestling, is apparently clueless as to what the current state of wrestling is about. And what is up with Bert Sugar? I can't stand that guy. His commentary on boxing is horrible, and his commentary on pro-wrestling is even worse. This book is full of grammatical and factual errors remarks. Not recommended for ANY wrestling fan, even the most casual and naive marks.
