With WWE on the “road to WrestleMania”, this is a great time to dig into some books about the world of sports entertainment. 2021 will bring the 37th edition of WrestleMania and the company is riding higher than ever before with television contracts in the billions. There are many great
Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond by Jim Ross is a candid memoir from the voice of a generation of wrestling fans. On the off chance that you’ve gotten a broadcast wrestling match in the previous THIRTY years, you’ve likely heard Jim Ross’ guttural Oklahoma
The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker is an in-depth look at pro wrestling history’s as told through the lens of its dead legends. The Squared Circle grows out of David Shoemaker’s writing for Deadspin, where he started the column “Dead Wrestler of the Week” (which
Matt and Nick Jackson, the Young Bucks, are one of the greatest professional wrestling tag teams of all-time with fans all over the world. The duo is especially notable because they got to this status and tremendous fame without ever going to work for WWE, the largest professional wrestling company
A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex is a book by Chris Jericho that covers his rise from a young kid who loved wrestling in rock-and-roll to becoming one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the world. Chris Jericho is considered one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all
Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley is considered by many to be the best biography by a professional wrestler ever written. The book, released in 1999, covers Mick Foley’s entire wrestling career until the night he won the WWF Championship over The Rock.
