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Gorgeous George
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Popular Culture: Media
Popular Culture: Sports
Recreation
Sammartino
Television
The Rock
Vince
Product details
- ISBN 9781440853500
- Weight: 879g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides readers with an abundance of information and historical perspective as well as entertaining and memorable anecdotes about professional wrestling. Readers will also learn unusual snippets of trivia that will enhance their comprehension of the sport.
This authoritative work on the history and culture of professional wrestling features the biggest names in the wrestling world since the sport emerged on the American sporting landscape. It comprises short biographies of all of the key players in the sport's evolution and rise to popularity—from old-timers to barrier breakers to household names such as Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Andre the Giant, and more—and includes not only men but also many women who have made a name in the sport.
Surveying professional wrestling from its roots, dating centuries, to the modern era, pre–20th century and into the 21st century, the work tells the transformational stories of prominent wrestlers and the sport as a whole, in many cases bringing out the humor and outrageousness in the nature of an activity that has always straddled the line between show business and sport.
Lew Freedman is a columnist and feature writer for the Cody Enterprise newspaper, in Wyoming. He has worked in journalism for decades, mostly as a sportswriter, for a variety of publications.
