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    Thank You Taker

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    Thank you taker. that is all i can say. never got to see him perform live (i live in the middle east). wish i did. still,thank you taker a thousand times. i wish he would write an autobiography,though i doubt it,and i would be honored if i could meet him even one time.

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    On 2/8/2017 at 2:37 AM, Word Hoard said:

    Just wanted to thank FFTHEWINNER for the link. This guy is a hero. 

     

     

    19 hours ago, acecraft said:

     

     

    17 hours ago, Justin877 said:

    I am looking forward to reading the Brody and Backlund books.  Thanks FFTHEWINNER 

    you are welcome guys! Glad you enjoyed the package!

    BTW,I decided to make a "DLC Package"for Wrestling Books A-N,featuring the 21 A-N Wrestling books that i obtained since making the original Package. link already sent to every one i sent the original A-Z package to. Hope you enjoy it guys and looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it :)

    14 hours ago, Kuetsar said:

    Gotta love blatent copyright infringement......

    F*** Copyright. as a huge wrestling fan from the middle east,i wouldnt have been able to watch even one wrestling show or read even one wrestling book if the copyrights worked as the assholes wish they did. piracy is the reason i was able to keep my hobby,and eitherway none of these guys would have seen any money from me because i live in a country where their stuff isnt availableby any "legitimate"means. i intend to write some books in the future,and you can be sure that i will post a pirated version of my book alongside the normal version,because i lived it and i understand it.

    13 hours ago, PetrolCB said:

    FF is a punk rocker.

    Down with copyrights, up with mini-skirts!

    well said ;)

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    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    1 hour ago, paintedbynumbers said:

    I will be going out of the country on a cruise and I cannot thank FF enough. I typically would sing "for he's a jolly good fella" But I am afraid Sheamus would show up.  Also is part 2 completed and if so can I get in on the action?  If not no big deal.  Some of these I never knew existed such as the Kidman book.

    you are very welcome man! hope you enjoy them!

    thanks reached without the need to sing though lol XD

    as for your question,i didnt compile the N-Z portion. i originally intended to do it later. now i dont know. that experience turned me off the whole thing >_>.

     

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    37 minutes ago, acecraft said:

    I signed up for this forum to say thanks    FFTHEWINNER  for  posting the books.  I would love to get the second part, please email it to me.   Also I found on FB that if you check out eatsleepwrestle.com its a blog with a free ebook about indy wrestling!  Long time reader first time poster here.

    Thanks for the link and the kind Words! PM sent :)

    Learning About AJPW

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    17 hours ago, Attila The Hut said:

    He never took it down for some reason.  I used to download all my AJPW videos from there all the time.  I might have to create a YouTube account and upload all of them.  I have over a 1000 videos.  Some of those I downloaded off YouTube.  Then again, I'll probably get copyright dinged.

    I think the http://ditch.lcwe.com URL still works.  Check that.

    thanks very much for the link man! it has a ton of awesome stuff :)

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    7 hours ago, Cleavy said:

    looks like it got nuked?  (and/or I missed the part 2)

    i intended to delete it anyway. that board turned out to be the biggest group of assholes i ever saw in my life. i post an incredible collection,over 250 unique wrestling books for free,biggest free wrestling books collection in the entire history of the internet,and they react by calling me names. funniest one was when one of them said i was the FBI. you cant make this s*** up. talk about a bunch of crazy ass people. and the most annoying part is that over 50 of them downloaded it,yet not a single one posted a thank you/told the others to STFU because i was saying the truth. talk about doing tons of good and,instead of getting thanked and high 5ed,getting bit in the ass big for it.

    anyway. PMed you a link to the A-N part of the collection(originally intended to post N-Z later. now not so sure). hope you enjoy it :)

    from reading this topic,i assume that posting the links here would be not allowed,right?if that is the case then i am willing to pm those who ask :)

    Learning About AJPW

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    i hope you dont misunderstand me. i am not disagreeing(except for point 4). i am just trying to understand it.i am thankful for your replies and i hope mine didnt annoy you :)

     

    1:so it was basically the same deal as the WWF in the 80s. gotcha.

    4:because no decent booker was there at the time. no matter how bad their roster was,it certainly was better than what heyman had to work with. good bookers turn chicken s*** into chicken salad.

    7:if AJPW is currently japan's ROH(3rd company),then what is japan's TNA(2nd company)? NOAH?

     

     

    Learning About AJPW

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    1:" AJPW was a mom and pop shop " um. it was a huge company with tons of employees. that is the exact opposite of"mom and pop shops" :/. were there more reasons that lead to the other wrestlers leaving with misawa?i just cant imagine a mass quitting spree just because a wrestler-turned-booker quit,no matter how popular said guy was. he wasnt even screwed or backstabbed like bret did,yet very few people quit over montreal(IIRC only rick rude,davey boy smith,and ,for one day only,Foley). heck vince literally told anyone who wants to leave to do so and no one did lol. i know that the Japanese care about camaraderie far more than the americans,but someone leaving over creative differences is as normal as breathing in wrestling lol.

    3:no matter what the culture is,a TV contract is legally binding to both parties. the japanese are business men too. they cant simply just leave.

    4:so even back then NJPW had pretty much won. good on them for actually being good and not assholes like vince lol. "help and be helped"is not in vince's dictionary XD

    5:that point is simply not true in wrestling though. again,look at WWF in 1994. all their big names were gone. yet in only 3 years they created new big names. look at heyman in ECW. he created stars out of garbage.in professional wrestling,one smart booker is all you need to fill your roster with stars. as for your reputation point,even when WWF in 1994 was like this,it was still the place that most new wrestlers hoped to go to. why?because of its reputation and name. reputation gives you the best of the hungry new talent,who can easily be converted to stars within 1 or 2 years. reputation ALWAYS maters

    6:i get that in cases like when Iwata slashed his salary in half,because he was the president of Nintendo and made/approved the decisions that led to the 3ds not selling well,thus he felt personally responsible and punished himself by cutting his salary in half. however,in this case not only was the matter in no way,shape,or form Muta's fault,not even indirectly,but that was a matter that wasnt uncommon at all in wrestling,and was even advocated by multiple bookers to settle your differences in the locker room so that it doesnt spill out into the ring. so,why was this one case so much of a big deal?

    7:both of them,although atleast tenryu was somewhat understandable because they were desperate.

    Learning About AJPW

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    thanks for the replies! a few questions:

    1:didnt baba's wife own AJPW after he died?how come she didnt simply say"i own the damn company. you follow my orders. end of discussion"like any other wrestling company owner(heck,any company owner in general)?or simply replace him as booker with whomever was booker during baba's days?also,does she still own it?

    2:How much were the nelson ratings for AJPW around the time Baba died?and how much are they now?

    3:how can the tv deal follow him?first,those tv deals are binding for many years. the station cant simply randomly decide to leave. second,what reason would the station have to leave a company that was giving them INCREDIBLE ratings for more that a third of a decade just because some top guys left?by that logic wwe in 1995 would have been off the air,as literally all their big names were taken by wcw.

    4:how did NJPW agree to an inter-promotional feud with their hated rival?and how was it booked?did the AJPW guys get squashed like the invasion?doubt it,as that storyline apparently helped them,but somehow i cant see the winning company(NJPW,WWF)helping the losing company(AJPW,WCW)or making their guys look strong in anyway :/

    5:with AJPW's great reputation and ratings,How come no rich billionaire bought it and helped it back to its feet?or the channel its self ALA Ted Turner with WCW?

    6:i really dont get the"muta stepping down"bit. locker room fights are as normal as breathing in wrestling. putting someone in a coma is a bit extreme,but a suspension or a firing of the guy who did would have been more than enough. why would muta step down over something that was in no way his fault,and was actually not unusual?

    7:how could a backstabber become president of the company?

     

    sorry for the many questions,and thanks again guys :)

    Learning About AJPW

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    1 hour ago, Ramsey said:

    That was the beginning of it. That was the FIRST mass departure. AJPW has sustained a thousand cuts on it's way to be a "super indy" in Japan as opposed to the strong #2 company in the country.

    ok. a few more details please?i am legit curious. AJPW and NJPW were like WWF VS WCW. sometimes AJPW was on top,sometimes NJPW was. what happened to make AJPW fall off the radar so much? to my knowledge,they didnt hire russo lol XD

    Learning About AJPW

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    1 hour ago, paintedbynumbers said:

    No what is it? I would love the ROH one just for 2016 shows that I don't have.

    ...f%%%. just went to it again,only to find that google deleted it :(

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    One book that doesnt get much love is "Atlas:Too Much...Too Soon"by Tony Atlas. it is brutally honest,quite enjoyable to read,and has TONS of great stories and quotes. to entice you to get it,here are a few awesome quotes from it:
     

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    Someone once asked me if wrestling was fake. I said, "Look around this gym. Everyone here has a different personality, but they all act the same. That’s fake. Wrestling gives us the opportunity to be who we really are."(Tony Atlas)

    When we got into wrestling, we became a part of the wrestling world. The guys lived their personas outside the ring and away from the arenas. We really became the characters we portrayed on TV and lived those characters 24 hours a day. I became Tony Atlas. When I started in the business, George Scott told me "You will turn into your own personality." That was so true. I didn’t have to think about it. I just became who I really was. Johnny Valentine believed he was Johnny Valentine. Richard Fliehr became Ric Flair. When you saw Richard Fliehr in the ring, he was Ric Flair. When you saw Richard Fliehr on the street, he was Ric Flair. The wrestlers today go back to their hotel room and play on their computers, but in our day, we would go out and party with the fans after a show. Flair would walk into a bar and pick up the tab for everybody. He was the same Nature Boy in the outside world that he was on TV.When a wrestler throws himself into the business,their true personalities always come to the surface. You can try to be somebody you’re not,but you can only pretend so long.. If you get enough exposure, the people will eventually see through you, so it’s important for you to portray what you really are.Steve Borden was Sting. He made the transformation. With Blackjack Mulligan, what you saw is what you got. Gene and Ole Anderson weren’t related, but if you looked at them and watched their mannerisms, you would have thought they were. Ole was the same guy you heard on TV promos. If you ever met him in person, you couldn’t tell the difference.Khosrow Vaziri became the Iron Sheik. He was so weird, but that’s the way the sheiks in his country acted. He knew how they acted, so that’s what he did. none of us shed our characters when we went out into the "real" world. We were wrestlers from the moment we got out of bed until we went to sleep. We lost ourselves in our characters and we became that character. You can’t fake that. It was either in you or it wasn’t. I can’t make you something you’re not, no matter how much prompting I do. If it’s not there, it’s not there.I was born Tony White, but when I became Tony Atlas, I forgot about Tony White. Even today,when I sign legal documents, I write Tony Atlas. I even tend to get into character when I’m at home. When I do, my wife says, "The next time you come home, leave Tony Atlas in the ring!".Most of the good heels acted the same way outside the ring that they did on the inside. Bill White was one of the tough guys, and he was a bully outside the ring as well.(Tony Atlas)

     

     

     

    and a few funny stories to LOL at ;)


     

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    Perhaps the most blatant example of staying in character took place one night when Tommy Rich and I had some girls in our hotel room. a particular masked man didn’t usually fool around,but he must have been horny that night because he walked in and asked, "Is it okay if a mysterious,masked man joins you?"Eyeing the naked girl on one of our beds, he quickly pulled off his clothes and jumped on top of her … still wearing his mask. There aren’t many things which can shock a wrestler because we’ve seen and done just about everything, but we were all pretty well speechless during the event. Two minutes later, he was finished. He stood up, and with his mask still in place, he got dressed and walked out. It was so casual, as if he had just stopped by to say hello. Still thunderstruck,Tommy and I looked back and forth at each other,until we finally broke out into loud, raucous laughter. We laughed about that every day for weeks.(tony atlas)

     

    I’ll leave out the name of my friend in this story so I don’t embarrass him, but while we were in Guatemala on a wrestling trip, we got horny, so we went out to look for prostitutes. As we were walking up the main street, we saw a young girl with an old woman. As we walked up, the old woman said,"Girl, five dollars."That was a bargain in any country, and the young girl was a beauty, so I pulled a five-dollar bill from my wallet and gave it to her. The girl took me by the hand and led me to something that looked like a shed made out of tin. If I didn’t know better,I would have thought a child had put it together. It was little more than four poles stuck into the ground with pieces of tin forming the four sides. To get inside, we had to squat and duckwalk through a small hole cut into the tin. On the ground in the center of the shed, there was a campfire, and trash was strewn everywhere. There was no running water,either. Once we were inside, the girl squatted over a pail of water, washed herself with a washcloth, and threw the wash cloth back into the pail.Yes, I know what you’re thinking, which is strange, because I can’t even imagine what I could have been thinking. That was absolutely filthy and disgusting. However, us young bucks didn’t always do our thinking with the brain in our big head. We just did whatever it took to satisfy those youthful urges that so often overran our sanity.While I was having sex with the girl, I could hear my friend outside, pleading with the old woman,"Do you have one for me?"The woman said, "No, only one daughter."He said, "But I want some, too!"I began to laugh because my friend sounded so desperate. I think the old woman sensed it, too,because she left. When she came back, she was leading a goat on a leash. "Two dollars for goat,"she said.I couldn’t keep going because I was laughing so hard, so I went out and gave the woman a $20bill. That didn’t satisfy her, though. She stayed close behind us, following my friend with the goat. He was fast-walking and trying to get away from her. My friend begged me to not tell the boys that story.(Tony Atlas)

     

    There is a story about my El Dorado car that Bill Howard likes to tell every time he gets an opportunity. One night, Bill and Klondike Bill played a joke on a policeman. I had just bought the El Dorado. I was driving back to Atlanta from Rome, Georgia. It was one of the first times I had driven at night on curvy roads. A car coming towards me was in the proper lane, but the roads were so curvy that it looked like the headlights were headed directly towards me on my side of the road, so I swerved to avoid him and drove off the side of the road into a ditch. We didn’t have cellphones back then. The boys used CB radios, but I didn’t have one, so I had to get out of the car and walk to the nearest town.After I left, Bill Howard and Klondike drove by. When they saw my car in the ditch, they turned around and parked on the shoulder of the road. A few minutes later, a county sheriff arrived on the scene. He looked just like Sheriff Buford T.Justice, Jackie Gleason’s character in the movie Smokey and the Bandit. He was the epitome of the stereotypical fat, redneck, southern sheriff. He was the type of guy the movies would have you believe were fictional characters. In reality,however, those characters were probably based on real-life people.The sheriff got out of his car and asked Bill where the driver of the car was. Now, you have to remember what the attitude of white southerners was towards blacks in the 1970s. They thought we were all freshly imported from the deepest, darkest recesses of the jungles of Africa. Bill Howard said "Well, you know, those damn coons always climb trees. He may be in a tree." The sheriff went down into the woods and looked up into the trees When I got back to the scene of the accident with a tow truck, Bill Howard was standing on the side of the road. He looked excited and said, "Tony,Tony! You’ve gotta play along with us. Go get up in that tree.""Get up in the tree? For what?"When Bill explained the story, I did exactly what he told me to do. Sure enough, the sheriff eventually discovered me in the tree. When he did,he began to yell, "Here he is! Here he is,boys! Hey, you! Get down out of that tree. Come down here before I sic the dogs on ya!"It was funny, but I remember thinking, "I hope he don’t get so excited that he shoots me."Bill and Klondike were both on the ground,laughing. Bill Howard had tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. They finally walked over to the sheriff and said, "Don’t worry about him,sheriff. We’ll take care of him. He’s our boy." The tow truck pulled my car out of the ditch. There was a big dent in the door where the car ran up against the tree, but it was drivable. We laughed about that for a long time. That sheriff was so funny, and the look on his face was something you just had to see to believe. He was so proud that he had found me. It was probably the biggest thing he ever did. He was just a "good ol’boy." He kept pulling up his pants, sticking out his chest, and strutting around like a rooster. I wish everybody could have heard him. "I’ve got‘im! I’ve got ‘im! Come on down, boy!"(Tony Atlas)

     

     

     

     

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    Learning About AJPW

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    AJPW was great. WTH happened to it??!! seriously,can anyone explain to me why it is almost dead?its situation seems as bad as WCW in 2000 :(

     

    also,you guys know about the google drive folder that has all ROH shows,right? :)

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    On 10/7/2014 at 9:36 PM, Mistah Na1m4rk said:

    I just finished the Ole Anderson book at it was self-serving with many glaring omissions.  Seriously, imagine reading a whole book about the life and career of Ole Anderson and not getting a single sentence about the Four Horsemen stable and associated angles?  There might have been two sentences mentioning Arn Anderson, and one of those sentences was a throwaway noting that he was Matt Bourne's tag team partner on a night Bourne was hammered on drugs.  Ole is as bitter as a bucket of lye, to take the book at face value you'd think the only workers of any note during his career were Jack Brisco, the Funks, Stan Hansen, and, of course, Ole Anderson.  Even Ric Flair and Barry Windham get sneered at.  Vader gets no credit as a worker.  Harley Race gets grudging respect but only as someone who could work a good match when he wanted to but never wanted to.

    HIGHLY Disagree with these.it was one of the best autobiographies i ever read. he is as brutally honest in it as bob holly is in his,and it is very informative and interesting. only thing i didnt like is him not talking about the 4 horsemen at alol,but the reason,as he explained in shoot interviews,is that he loaths that stable and regrets ever being a part of it as he believes that it was "all show business".

     

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    "An interesting new book that will go behind-the-scenes of WWE is set to be released in 2015.

    "Nude and Rude: The Naked Endeavors of WWE Superstars" will be hit store shelves in February. The book, written by a former WWE employee under the pseudonym "John Dough", will, according to publishing company ECW Press, "take the audience on a journey into what the WWE superstars do when their clothes are off and nobody is watching".

    Upon reading the press release, we contacted the publishing company to get more information. They sent us the following e-mail:

    "You need not worry about our "Nude and Rude: The Naked Endeavors of WWE Superstars" book. This will not be an expose on wrestling or wrestlers. The book will not be about the sexual activity of WWE stars, merely the funny moments that happen in and out of the locker room while the wrestlers are undressed.

    For example, the writer tells a story in which a wrestler placed a pair of "googly eyes" on his buttocks and then proceeded to shake, much to the amusement of the guys in the locker room. Another story features a wrestler who fell asleep in the shower while other wrestlers showered with him still lying there. Still another talks about a female wrestler who flashed a celebrity guest moments before he was to enter the arena.

    These are the kinds of stories you'll find in the upcoming book. The wrestlers will be named, but we feel there is nothing for them to feel ashamed of. The stories are all innocent fun that happen to involve nudity. The intent is not to ruin careers or cause scandals."

    Upon our asking, they also confirmed that the author proved to them, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is is indeed a former WWE employee. For his own protection, they wouldn't reveal his name or even his role within WWE, as the subject matter will undoubtedly make him very unpopular with his peers.

    It should be noted that while ECW Press has published a number of wrestling books, the initials in its name are purely coincidental."

     

    WTH Happened to this book lol? sounds incredible XD

    The Wrestling Book Thread

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    On 9/9/2013 at 7:28 PM, Tromatagon said:
    On 9/9/2013 at 0:06 PM, Lazlo Woodbine said:

    Has anyone read Adnan Al Khaissie's book? Knowing a little about his life I assume it could be interesting, but is it a good read?

    I heard it is full of bullshit

    i bought it and read it. it is awesome. some stuff might seem like lies but i managed to validate it through research. the book says the truth,even if it at first might seem too unbelievable sometimes

     

    also,LOVE Gary's book!i have TONS of respect for him after reading it. He was a manager's manager and a booker's booker :')

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