Overly Critical Man Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I commend Bob for actually going out there and educating himself on the subject even if he waited until he was 40 to do so. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Has anyone read the Bobby Blaze book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Kidman is jewish?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SovietShooter Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Has anyone read the Bobby Blaze book? Wait.... what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overly Critical Man Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Kidman is jewish?!According to Wikipedia, yes...yes he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Has anyone read the Bobby Blaze book? Wait.... what? It's on amazon Kindle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SovietShooter Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Bobby Blaze, the guy with cowboy boots w/ gym shoe soles? That worked Mason Dixon Wrestling & Cleveland All-Pro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Bobby Blaze, the guy with cowboy boots w/ gym shoe soles? That worked Mason Dixon Wrestling & Cleveland All-Pro? I know he worked SMW, and a cup of coffee in WCW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 "At least I got a finisher at this point. I hadn’t had a real finish up until then. I used something off the top rope back when I was Sparky Plugg: either a cross body, a splash, or a kneedrop. After I’d become “Hardcore,” I usually won matches by using foreign objects.I did use a pump-handle slam sometimes, but Vince Russo came to me around the time they were starting to push the hell out of Test and asked if I would mind giving the move to him. “Do I have a choice?” I asked. He replied, “Not really.” So why ****ing ask me?!I tried the Falcon Arrow for a while but didn’t really like it. It didn’t help that Russo wanted to call it “the Hollycaust.” That got stopped quickly when the office decided the name would offend a lot of people. After I watched a whole bunch of documentaries on the subject, I understood. It’s something people don’t want to be reminded of. To try and shock people, Russo probably would have pushed for me to use it to beat Bill Goldberg, Billy Kidman, and all the other Jewish wrestlers." - Bob HollyYes, he had to watch documentaries on the Holocaust to get it. As a tribesman, I wasn't actually offended by the "Hollycaust" name the handful of times I heard it- there's more than one definition to the word, after all. That said, with Russo booking I could see the word usage getting really out of hand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Who named "the final solution" in wcw? I'd bet Sullivan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 That line from Jericho's second book about Hogan had me chuckling for a solid 3 minutes. Hogan doing things on the fly seems like it could be awesome. Jericho's first book was one of my favorite reads when I read books more often. How is the second one?(besides the awesome line about Hogan?) It's not nearly as good as the first. It's about half wrestling stuff (which is good and offers some good backstage WWE insights) and half Fozzy stuff which I personally didn't give a shit about. I liked both those halfs but I agree with everyone here saying Jericho's first book is the best. The three best wrestling autobiographies I've read are Mick Foley's first book, Bret Hart's and Chris Jericho's first book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tystates Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I started reading The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Migs Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I'm super intrigued for Tammy Sytch's written in prison book, even if large chunks of it might be bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_h Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Just finished Bob Holly's book and it is indeed awesome. I love that he goes into specific details about things, from how much he made for certain PPV matches, to what he was making per year, to his steroid cycles and which ones he took (!). Just a ton of interesting and honest info that you don't see a lot. And with the way it's written you just can't not read it in Hardcore Holly's voice, which makes it funny as hell. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 I got "Drawing Heat" and "Long Days and Short Pays" today. Anyone else read them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 I got "Drawing Heat" and "Long Days and Short Pays" today. Anyone else read them? If it's Drawing Heat by Larry Matysik, I have. I hated it. It was 90% him complaining about modern wrestling, mostly. Consequently, I'm currently reading the E's version of The Rise And Fall of ECW. Now I am by no means an ECW expert or a fan when it was around, but it seems like there's a lot of inaccuracies in it. For example, they claimed that Shane Douglas won the WWF TV Title in 1992. Also, some of the photos identify the wrong wrestlers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 I got "Drawing Heat" and "Long Days and Short Pays" today. Anyone else read them? If it's Drawing Heat by Larry Matysik, I have. I hated it. It was 90% him complaining about modern wrestling, mostly. Consequently, I'm currently reading the E's version of The Rise And Fall of ECW. Now I am by no means an ECW expert or a fan when it was around, but it seems like there's a lot of inaccuracies in it. For example, they claimed that Shane Douglas won the WWF TV Title in 1992. Also, some of the photos identify the wrong wrestlers. It's not Matysik's book, it's another book by Jim Freedman. Originally published in 1989 but recently republished by Scott Teal and Crowbar Press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Just checking! I didn't know that one existed till I looked at Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Yeah I got it from Amazon, I got "Long Days and Short Pays" at the same time. For any UKers that interested, it was quite a bit cheaper ordering them from amazon.com than it would have been ordering them from Crowbar Press. Postage was less than $8 combined compared with $20+ from Crowbar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 One of the Crowbar Press books that doesn't get much attention is the Downtown Bruno book. He's such a character and has had such a weird career. He's very honest in his opinions, and has some really strange ones. Worth a read, especially if you like Memphis stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 24, 2013 Share Posted September 24, 2013 Yeah I second that. It's definitely one of the better books out there, not in the top tier of Jericho's first, Bret's and Foley's first, but in the next tier down along with the best of the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted September 24, 2013 Author Share Posted September 24, 2013 Backlund apparenlty has a book coming out in April. Any interest in that? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Backlund could have a lot of great stories to tell but I am certain I'll be disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 It depends. Backlund is crazy and a freak for language so it could be really weird. But if not, it'll probably suck. He was pretty straight-laced so any road stories would be ones he witnessed. EDIT: As in, ones he didn't participate in. Then again Jericho did say he got plastered on that Japan tour due to Murdoch and it was pretty funny... Also, I really wanna read that Downtown Bruno book. Talk about road stories! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 If Backlund is publishing it with WWE, I'm not too interested. If he's working with an editor/ghost that won't talk him off a ledge, count me in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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