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Post by Turnbuckle Zealot(Phil) on Jan 17, 2015 23:43:42 GMT -5
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 18, 2015 0:02:59 GMT -5
No problem. I havent gotten into the Big Gold book yet but the 10lbs of gold book is great. Lots of info and tons of stories about the history. I did skim the Big Gold book and the sketches of the original concept belt still blow my mind (I believe Ive posted them on here before)
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Post by Turnbuckle Zealot(Phil) on Jan 18, 2015 3:05:03 GMT -5
No problem. I havent gotten into the Big Gold book yet but the 10lbs of gold book is great. Lots of info and tons of stories about the history. I did skim the Big Gold book and the sketches of the original concept belt still blow my mind (I believe Ive posted them on here before) I can't wait to read them! Thanks again!
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Post by jdgjivesoulbro on Jan 18, 2015 12:16:41 GMT -5
A couple i liked i havent seen mentioned are Harvey Wipplemans and Titan Sinking-The Decline of WWF in 1995.
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Post by juaumguterres on Jan 18, 2015 13:47:08 GMT -5
I've read Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair and Edge's biographies and I love it! There's another biographies I can read?
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Post by mikey1974 on Jan 18, 2015 13:54:31 GMT -5
No problem. I havent gotten into the Big Gold book yet but the 10lbs of gold book is great. Lots of info and tons of stories about the history. I did skim the Big Gold book and the sketches of the original concept belt still blow my mind (I believe Ive posted them on here before) could you post them again? I missed them the first time!
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 18, 2015 13:59:35 GMT -5
No problem. I havent gotten into the Big Gold book yet but the 10lbs of gold book is great. Lots of info and tons of stories about the history. I did skim the Big Gold book and the sketches of the original concept belt still blow my mind (I believe Ive posted them on here before) could you post them again? I missed them the first time! That's the main plate of the original design...Ill have to crack open the book to see if any of the other plates were different. I assume they were the same though.
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Post by mikey1974 on Jan 18, 2015 14:10:47 GMT -5
could you post them again? I missed them the first time! That's the main plate of the original design...Ill have to crack open the book to see if any of the other plates were different. I assume they were the same though. thanks! I'm honestly surprised they didn't put the NWA on there...since,you know,it was the NWA Belt!
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 18, 2015 14:34:13 GMT -5
That's the main plate of the original design...Ill have to crack open the book to see if any of the other plates were different. I assume they were the same though. thanks! I'm honestly surprised they didn't put the NWA on there...since,you know,it was the NWA Belt! Jim Crockett asked for it to be removed before production because he felt that his company could compete with McMahon on a world wide level (which it did) and that with all the other NWA territories closing their doors and he himself shedding the Mid Atlantic name, that the NWA brand would become non existent (which it did)....Crockett was like Paul Heyman, great wrestling mind, terrible with a check book!
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Post by Brad on Jan 18, 2015 14:39:08 GMT -5
A couple i liked i havent seen mentioned are Harvey Wipplemans and Titan Sinking-The Decline of WWF in 1995. I had no idea Harvey had one. I'd definitely be down to read that.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 15:55:44 GMT -5
A couple i liked i havent seen mentioned are Harvey Wipplemans and Titan Sinking-The Decline of WWF in 1995. I had no idea Harvey had one. I'd definitely be down to read that. titan sinking?I'll have to add that to my list!!
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Post by LA Times on Jan 18, 2015 18:03:45 GMT -5
I have quite a collection of wrestling books
Mankind: Have a Nice Day Foley is Good (autographed) The Rock Says...(autographed) Adam Copeland on Edge (autographed) Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff Batista Unleashed Hollywood Hulk Hogan My Life Outside the Ring by Hulk Hogan (autographed) My Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho The Rise and Fall of ECW Eddy Guerrero's book All 3 Wrestlecrap books (Worst of Wrestling, Book of Lists, Death of WCW) Ring of Hell (unauthorized Chris Benoit book)
I shouldve bought Chris Jericho's second book when it was on clearance at my local Books a Million but that store shut down
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Post by Dante, The Voc on Jan 18, 2015 21:55:52 GMT -5
Just finished Jericho's third book. As with his second, this was fantastically written with great stories but I found myself speed-reading through the Fozzy sections, although with this one I was more invested in those stories. He's got a ton of humor in everything getting to relive everything from the Michaels feud to his 2013 return with his witty banter made this one special. Kinda liked this one better than the second partly because the sphere covered in the third is fresher in my mind. Coupled with the fact I prefer nonfiction from interesting people to fictional literary classics, this one's probably in the upper eschelon of books I've read.
Probably my favorite story comes from just before Summerslam 2010 (the one with Nexus). Jericho says he felt an intense pain in his foot the day of and contacted the WWE docs to see if he was even able to go. As he was rambling on about the supposed "worst pain of his career," Doc Amann promptly removed the splinter from his foot and his mortal ailment was miraculously healed.
Some of the stuff that came off as meh (2012 return promos, WM 25) he glorifies in a way that makes me believe that they weren't all bad after all. Dunno, something about the way he justifies it. Plus it's Jericho, and how much "meh" has Jericho been a part of in his career?
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