Wrestling Books

[gmoney]

23 hours ago, NeverYield said:

Came across William Regals book many years ago in a charity shop which in recent years has been a book thats been pretty hard to get hold of, think you can pick one up on amazon for about 30-40quid at the minute but it's definitely been scarce at times.

Sometimes you see it for one price, then it goes up when you try and buy it.

[kidzero]

I got Terry funks book for Christmas I got copies of Eddie's and reys books for myself have to read Scott Nortons book and I think I have Jim duggans book around somewhere never read it 

[The Reverend]

22 hours ago, gmoney said:

Sometimes you see it for one price, then it goes up when you try and buy it.

Yeah, Regal's is a strange one. These days they don't go for quite so much, but years ago they could go for about £60-£70. I know as I did quite well out of buying and selling them for a while. These days they're more around the £20-£25 mark. When I bought my original one I got it from high street shop the Works for £4, I was so pissed off I didn't buy more then as they had a huge pile of them.  

[SaitoRyo]

On 2/1/2025 at 12:13 AM, AndyUK said:

Random question, anyone know if there’s some good glossy photos in either the Rise and Fall of ECW or Turning The Tables books?

Planning on buying either one to read and hopefully get signed by some former ECW stars. 

If it's glossy ECW pictures you're after, I think there were some in Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorised History of ECW (courtesy of George Tahinos).  

I must say I'm jealous of anyone finding wrestling book gold in charity shops, as I don't think I've found that many over the years. Certainly not ones that I didn't already have, anyway.

I did stumble across The Fabulous Moolah's book in a secondhand bookshop in Prague fairly recently but, I mean, you know... 

[JNLister]

2 hours ago, SaitoRyo said:

If it's glossy ECW pictures you're after, I think there were some in Hardcore History: The Extremely Unauthorised History of ECW (courtesy of George Tahinos).  

 

There are a few pages of pics but they are fairly small (several pics per page.)

[SaitoRyo]

1 minute ago, JNLister said:

There are a few pages of pics but they are fairly small (several pics per page.)

Ah, fair enough. It has been a good fifteen years since I looked at the book tbf! Also, if you wanted glossy ECW pictures there's probably hundreds of wrestling mags from that era that have them. 

[NeverYield]

On 2/3/2025 at 12:17 AM, kidzero said:

I got Terry funks book for Christmas I got copies of Eddie's and reys books for myself have to read Scott Nortons book and I think I have Jim duggans book around somewhere never read it 

Very dear to get a copy of Funks book that isn't the kindle version 

[CL Punk]

Is Batista's book any good?

[kidzero]

18 hours ago, CL Punk said:

Is Batista's book any good?

It's ok I read it years ago I've ordered odb's book of Amazon anyone read it?

[NeverYield]

21 hours ago, CL Punk said:

Is Batista's book any good?

I too read it years ago, it's not bad, worth a read imo. 

Not read ODBs book, let us know what you reckon of it.

[kidzero]

21 minutes ago, NeverYield said:

I too read it years ago, it's not bad, worth a read imo. 

Not read ODBs book, let us know what you reckon of it.

Yes no problem coming this week and it's on the top of my list of books to read I'm also wanna read Jerry lawlors book I have it but not got round to reading it yet .

[SaitoRyo]

Batista's is a quick read, but there's some interesting stuff in there. 

IIRC it was one of the first (if not the first) WWE book to come out after the Benoit tragedy, and there's a bit in it where he basically says something to the effect of 'I know the company won't like this, but fuck it, this is my book and Benoit was a friend and I'm not going to pretend he didn't exist'. 

There's also him burying Sarge from chasing him away from the WCW power plant, burying Bubba Dudley for being an asshole and him refusing to apologise for shagging Melina, even though it caused a big deal of heat for all involved.

[Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz]

For anyone not yet purchased, Amazon have the Nitro book on Kindle for 99p currently.

[kidzero]

1 hour ago, Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz said:

For anyone not yet purchased, Amazon have the Nitro book on Kindle for 99p currently.

That books is an Excellent read,....I picked up Barry Horowitz book off Amazon it came today..but my next read is Madusa's book I'm looking forward to it ...my last read was Terry funks book which was outstanding..I double dipped on a couple of books lately mox,bushwhackers,flairs..etc

[Thefatduck]

Got myself a nice voucher for Waterstones for Christmas which I’ve just remembered about. 

Going to get at least one wrestling book. 

I’ve read Bret’s, Jericho’s and foley’s books. 

read Gewirtz book and most recently The Wrestling by Simon Garfield  

what is funk’s book like?
Is it well written or a collection of poorly articulated anecdotes that end with ‘needless to say, I had the last laugh’ owing to his catastrophic head injuries?

any suggestions?