Chokehold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring

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Summary: Great Read!!!
Review: My compliments to Johnson and Wilson on a terrific book!!! CHOKEHOLD dispels conventional publishing wisdom that all wrestling books are written for juvenile, mouth-breathing fans. CHOKEHOLD appeals to the savvy wrestling afficionado on several levels --first, as a compelling story of a wrestler crusading for professional dignity and second, as a riveting history of a corrupt mega-business. A great read all around and a great Christmas gift idea!!

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Summary: Wrestling Game Exposed!!!
Review: This is simply the best book on pro wrestling ever published, and I've read virtually all of them. Chokehold is not another wrestling comic and picture book of fluff and puff, but a beautifully written and documented history of the pro wrestling industry from the late 1940s to the present. It's no accident that wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer called this book "the most important book on pro wrestling covering the second half of the 20th century."
Chokehold is very much an insider account of the wrestling industry's shoddy business practices and labor relations. The book deals honestly with pro wrestling's "unromantic underside," the authors call it "a secret world of exploitation, abuse and illegality." In telling pro wresting's fascinating history, the authors present countless stories that cast light on the industry's long tradition of conducting its business in secrecy where there isn't much public notice or attention. The book's viewpoint is that of a former NFL player turned pro wrestler who was later blacklisted, Jim Wilson, one of the book's co-authors, and it is a compelling viewpoint that conveys the pain and pathos of all those wrestlers, past and present, who left the wrestling business with only broken bodies and shattered lives. Chokehold, unlike other wrestling books I've read, describes in detail the backstabbing wrestling life backstage, after the arena lights and TV cameras are turned off each night.
Serious wrestling fans are going to love this book and the wrestling promoters will hate it. And all the old, retired wrestlers living in poverty and pain and the widows of dead wrestlers will be grateful that somebody finally had the courage to tell the whole story about pro wrestling.

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Summary: Another bitter failure cries the blues
Review: Who is this guy? Has anyone ever heard of him? NO! He is just another bitter failure who couldn't cut it and instead of accepting his failure, he cries out a book crying conspiracy. Professional wrestling isn't for everyone and this guy is unknown. He needs to get over himself and get a life. This book is a joke!