REVIEW SEX LIES AND HEADLOCKS

[Guest cynicalprofit]

SL&H covers alot of the scandalous history of the WWF in chronological order. It goes through the tales of drugs, lightly,(memorabel book quote was how somone, unnamed, once heard vince say that he could snort as much coke as you put in front of him and not be addicted, which suprisingly i dont doubt knowing his personality) using mainly unnamed quoters, but a few names are dropped, Billy Gram and Jim Cornette are quoted in the book along with Kevin Nash. It talks about the sex scandal, which honestly wasnt that intersting cause it never really went anywhere because it wasnt the main focus of the FBI's investigation. It has facts and statements from alot of people who would be more willing to speak candidly about their Vinny Mac experiences then his wreslters, ie laywers and ex family friends.(I know Im doing a rally bad review but its 316 am and im tired as fuck and have been reading the book since about noon on and off). It goes into wrestlings boom and down fall via the federal investigations, vince was planning how to run everything from jail cause he figured they were gonna nail him on something. It goes into the monday night wars and how bischo fought and lost. It talks about the PTC and the switch from usa at viacom and the xfl disaster. And ends on the night that the nWo attacked rocky and wrestlemain x-8.

 

 

It covers the history of how vince got into wrestling, and gave a pretty good overall retrospective of everything major that happened legally and finically in the wwf and talked about tedturners whole involvemnt.

 

Honestly, this book covers all the major points that happened. Its information was very accurate, a few things were misquoted and i dont beleive everything watts says, or kevin nash. (Ole Anderson refusing to work with Vince and his hindsight is pretty damn funny)

 

It was a good covering of EVERYTHING, but it was very breif about all of it. Didnt get into to much super detail, but just enogh to keep you following the real story of what was going on.

 

As a history book, gotta give it ****1/2. It has everything that happened behind the scenes and told it like a smark would.

 

As a read I give it ***. If youre a smark, you already know whats in this book. You already know the stories and how they end. Yeah theres a few intersint bits here and there. Like Hogan admitting to Nash that HE KNEW HE WAS TANKING THE COMPANY AND DIDNT CARE THAT HE WAS!, but you already know most of it.

 

Wait untill you can get it on sale and then buy it, or bum a copy from some one, but dont shell out 25 for it like i did.

 

NOTE, The barnes and noble of downtown pa order 1, 1 copy of the book. Man thats some shit, and 2 im a lucky fucker today.

[Guest gthureson]

Not to be pissy, but from the note underneath the title of the forum....

 

 

"If you want to start a topic about a wrestling book, do so in one of the wrestling folders."

 

 

Just saying, is all.

[Guest areacode212]

Ah, I decided it's no big deal, so I've taken it out of the forum description.

[Guest cynicalprofit]

if i posted it in the wrestling forum, they would have told me to post it here.

[Guest J*ingus]

Actually, I just read this book today, and wasn't impressed. It was mostly a detailed history of the various business decisions that the WWF and WCW made in the 90's, with a little bit of scandal and backstage intrigue thrown in for spice. The writing style wasn't exactly gripping, but it wasn't excruciatingly bad like some books *coughChyna'scough*.

 

Problem is, it got a LOT of details wrong, like falling for the old myth that Andre's match at Wrestlemania III was the end of his career. We're talking Idiot's Guide To Pro Wrestling-level inaccuracies here. Dumb mistakes like that make you question the validity of the rest of the book.