By Irv Muchnick
Specialist wrestling’s such a lot infamous scandals and drug-fueled spectacles are laid out utilizing insider info and investigative journalism during this strong exposé of the game. that includes items formerly released in magazines akin to Penthouse and People, this ebook examines the dying of the outdated Mafia-like territories, whose wake, with assistance from cable tv and deregulation, helped gas the impressive development wrestling. those solemn and carefully investigated accounts—of Hulk Hogan’s drug use, the premature loss of life of Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s female friend, the ill-fated Von Erich extended family, and diverse scandals linked to global Wrestling Entertainment’s Vince McMahon—go past the theatrics to demonstrate what rather is going on behind the scenes and the place the game now stands.
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I got Johnny to row-not because I mind exertion myself, but because it makes me sick to ride backward when I am at work. But I steered. A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the night fell, and we stepped ashore very tired and wolfishly hungry. In a "cache" among the rocks we found the provisions and the cooking utensils, and then, all fatigued as I was, I sat down on a boulder and superintended while Johnny gathered wood and cooked supper. Many a man who had gone through what I had would have wanted to rest.