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NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE: the Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling
Release Date: May 2007 / Author: Tim Hornbaker / Publisher: ECW Press
--- I found this book to be the most comprehensive and well-written reference piece associated with the
business of professional wrestling. Every wrestling fan, the older generation who saw the boom period of what
the NWA meant to us and our territorial promotions down to the newer generation who laughs at the current
version of the alliance; especially those who look at us funny for speaking so highly of what they only see as a
current gnat on the wrestling scene. Highest possible recommendation. (Rich Tate)
--- Finally a well researched book with no self-serving agenda and the resultant horse shit. Very balanced view
of the NWA and its positives and negatives. I finally understand all the Chicago stuff for the first time. Clears up
some of the leakier claims in 'Chokehold', and also very good on the pre-NWA period and the breakup of the
Trust, and on Muchnick, Mondt, Capitol and the early WWWF, and the effect of TV (and losing TV). Too much on
the modern era IMO and information that's already generally well known, is my only real beef, but I understand
why. Gotta sell books. Absolutely recommended. (Crimson Mask)
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Release Date: May 2007 / Author: Tim Hornbaker / Publisher: ECW Press
--- I found this book to be the most comprehensive and well-written reference piece associated with the
business of professional wrestling. Every wrestling fan, the older generation who saw the boom period of what
the NWA meant to us and our territorial promotions down to the newer generation who laughs at the current
version of the alliance; especially those who look at us funny for speaking so highly of what they only see as a
current gnat on the wrestling scene. Highest possible recommendation. (Rich Tate)
--- Finally a well researched book with no self-serving agenda and the resultant horse shit. Very balanced view
of the NWA and its positives and negatives. I finally understand all the Chicago stuff for the first time. Clears up
some of the leakier claims in 'Chokehold', and also very good on the pre-NWA period and the breakup of the
Trust, and on Muchnick, Mondt, Capitol and the early WWWF, and the effect of TV (and losing TV). Too much on
the modern era IMO and information that's already generally well known, is my only real beef, but I understand
why. Gotta sell books. Absolutely recommended. (Crimson Mask)
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