Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Stranglehold An Intriguing Behind the Scenes Glimpse into the Private World of Professional Wrestlin Stranglehold: An Intriguing Behind the Scenes Glimpse into the Private World of by Larry Nelson. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6606e5ed89fd2c19 • Your IP : 116.202.236.252 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Review: Nelson’s Stranglehold on the Book World. Every day when I was in junior high and high school, , I would run home and turn on ESPN to watch the daily wrestling shows that they aired, either World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) from Texas or one of my favorites, the American Wrestling Association (AWA) out of Minneapolis area. Every day the AWA was on, I’d see announcer Larry Nelson welcome me to an hour of wrestling that was different from Vince McMahon’s WWF at time. The AWA focused more on wrestling and less on comedic characters, which was exciting for me (I loved all wrestling, but I still love watching the AWA). This is the second time I have read Larry Nelson’s book, titled “Stranglehold: An Intriguing Behind The Scenes Glimpse Into The Private World of Professional Wrestling.” The book’s copyright is from 1999 by Chump Change Publishing. I decided to re-read the book after several mentions of Nelson have appeared on one of my favorite wrestling podcasts. The book has some good and bad in it, which I am going to review. Nelson (real name Larry Shipley) got his start in the radio business where he started interviewing wrestlers from the AWA as a way to boost ratings. His first interview was Bobby Heenan who came into the studio thinking that Nelson wanted to fight Heenan. After the shows started to get popular, the station got pressured by the WWF to start having their talent on the air, not just the AWA Stars, which Nelson was not a major fan of because it was the AWA that helped them get started. Through his work with the wrestlers on the show, he was hired to do some voice work for the AWA and some interviews, which led to his hiring full time with the AWA after the radio station dropped the wrestling show, which was on AM Radio, due to the popularity of FM Radio. Nelson writes throughout the book about his partying habits (scotch and cocaine), which escalated by hanging out with professional wrestlers. When he was working on the interviews, which took place in Winnipeg Canada, the wrestlers would try to keep themselves occupied when on the road as well. Nelson writes about Rick Martel and amateur wrestling each other in the hotel rooms, would hide in his room and play the game Battleship, stayed in his room, and the wild activities of Wally Karbo, Stan Lane, and Road Warrior Hawk. Nelson talks about his relationship with another AWA Announcer Ken Resnick, who was not liked by the other AWA Wrestlers or staff , and how Resnick walked out of the company the day of their big event WrestleRock, after finding out that he was going to share the announcing duties with Nelson. Since the card was to have a concert to help promote the event, Nelson was asked to help suggest some acts due to his radio background. He suggested the rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who were starting to break after the song “Tuff Enuff” hit radio. Owner decided on Waylon Jennings due to his affordable salary and the music executives at the meeting also thought that Jennings could bring several fans of different genres to come to the event. A few other great stories in the book talks about how wrestler and Greg Gagne (Verne’s Son) almost got into a fight at a interview taping over payment, Curt Hennig and Playboy ’s luck at the casinos when the AWA moved the tapings to Vegas, and how threw a mop bucket filled with vomit onto the owner of The Showboat Casino, where the tapings were held. He also describes the time The Midnight Rockers ( and ) danced by themselves at a club, when NWA Champion tried to pick up and out drink Kathy Gagne (Verne’s son), and when Stan Hansen and Brody decided to go overhead bowling. In re-reading the book, I was curious to see what Nelson’s take on the decline of the AWA. He blames the major sign that the league was falling apart in competing with the WWF was the loss of the ESPN TV deal. He also states that when a toy company made the AWA action figures, the fans didn’t buy them and were a flop. He claims that he was never paid when the AWA made home videos trying to keep up with the NWA and WWF. Not being paid for his services, turning all his work into one day instead of three and four days, and bad business deals with Verne Gagne and other businesses all played a role in the league failing. Because of some of these events, Nelson decided to move to Florida with no notice to the AWA, and was then replaced by . The bad parts of this book deals with its editing. I know Nelson’s book is printed by a minor company or even self published company; however the editing could have been better. Most of the photographs “unless noted” are from Nelson’s personal collection, including the cover. The photographs, though, look like they were copied on a Zerox machine. Many of them are blurry, including the cover which features Nelson and Brody. Another problem I have with the book is some of the inaccuracies in the book and typos. Nelson talks about wrestlers John Nord as “John Ord” and Michael Hayes as “Hays.” He also says that Nick Bockwinkel vs Stan Hansen at WrestleRock was to be the rematch between the two, that Hansen “won the title from Bockwinkel in Chicago before a huge crowd” (Hansen beat Rick Martel in 1985 in East Rutherford, New Jersey and WrestleRock wasn’t until 1986). Another error stated in the book is Nelson telling the reader that the famous Bockwinkel vs Curt Hennig match that went an 1 hour draw on ESPN was “live from The Cow Palace in San Francisco” (It was at The Showboat Casino in Vegas in 1986, which is now found on the Curt Hennig WWE DVD). Another match error in the book is when Nelson states that during the AWA merger with the USWA and World Class Wrestling, AWA Champion and Kerry Von Erich each won a match and wrestled two times. “Lawler won the championship in his home territory of Tennessee, then wrestled Von Erich later in Texas, where Von Erich won.” Just my research alone, Jerry Lawler beat Hennig for the title. He then fought Von Erich in a series of unification matches before the bloody SuperClash match. Lawler fought him in 1988 in Tennessee (which I assume this is the match he’s talking about) in 1988. Kerry and Jerry both punched the first referee for a DQ finish. The match was restarted by a second referee and Kerry pinned Lawler with a piledriver, which was banned in Tennessee. So Lawler was declared the winner by DQ, which in World Class Wrestling, the champion could lose the belt during a DQ. Both wrestlers left with their respected belts regardless. Then there was a “Texas Death Match” at the Cotton Bowl in Texas, which the AWA refused to recognize Kerry as the winner due to a bias referee. Kerry then fought Lawler in Texas again for a TV Taping, where announcer Terry Garvin got involved when he threw a chair into the ring. The big match was at SuperClash, which Lawler won due to the referee stopping the bout due to Kerry’s bleeding. The way the writer writes Nelson’s take, Von Erich won the AWA Title, which he did not. And this was more than wrestling only two times. Yet another error in the book details the ending of the AWA. Nelson says: “A few key people stayed until the bitter end. Greg Gagne remained because he and his father, Verne, were the owners. Larry Zbyszko, who had married Kathy Gagne, hung on out of family loyalty. Nick Bockwinkel, with twenty years invested in the AWA, was also loyal to the end.” Yes, Gagne and Zbyszko stayed (Zbyszko was the last AWA Champion), but Nick Bockwinkel was working as a road agent for the WWF in the last years he was in the business- the AWA folded in 1991, and Bockwinkel was in the WWF from 1987-1989. He was out of wrestling in 1991 from my research. Bockwinkel even wrestled in 1987 at a WWF Show-a legends battle royal in the Meadowlands in New Jersey. This may sound like a small detail, but it shows that even Bockwinkel was gone from the AWA before it closed. One interesting quote in the book is when Nelson talks about WCW, where Eric Bischoff was running the league at the time of the writing. Nelson writes, “If Bischoff’s ego trip continues, it is likely Vince McMahon’s WWF will win the current wrestling war.” WCW ended up being sold to McMahon in 2001. Overall the book is a good read besides some of the errors in it. Nelson very briefly states a sentence or two throughout the book about his partying, but it does not distract from the book, say like Sunny’s book did, which I reviewed for Slam Sports Wrestling (you can find that link in the March 2016 Archives at the side of this site). At 152 pages, one could read it in one sitting if one wanted. I do wish there were more stories about Bockwinkel, Zbyszko, Sgt. Slaughter, and others, but it is still filled with good tales. I think the AWA gets a bad rap in the wrestling world and whatever few books I can get on it, I’m going to enjoy it, and I enjoyed most of Nelson’s book. A Special Thanks to The Great Brian Last for providing me with some last second information. (Larry Nelson’s book is available at Amazon.com) (Nelson, Larry and Jones, James. Stranglehold: An Intriguing Behind The Scenes Glimpse Into The Private World Of Professional Wrestling . Denver: Chump Change Publishing, 1999. ) AWA Wrestling. Classic Book Review: Wrestling’s Legend Takes Reader on Life’s Ride. The 1980s wrestling scene was filled with tag teams. Granted tag team wrestling was not new in the decade; wrestling had many tag teams events and stars before the 1980s, but the turn of the decade moved newer fans to wrestling, thanks to cable television and the ending of some of the territories. With newer fans, wrestlers and promoters had to create something different and make it more exciting. Teams like The Midnight Express, The Rock N Roll Express, and The Fantastics all were stars in the 1980s. However, the biggest tag team had to been . Joe “Animal” Laurinaitis ‘ book The Road Warriors: Danger, Death and The Rush of Wrestling ( Medallion Press, 2011) takes the reader through his career as one half of the legendary team, telling great road stories, along with his relationship with tag partner Hawk ( Michael Hegstrand). One of the enjoyable parts of the book is that there are not a lot of chapters detailing the childhood of Laurinatitis before his wrestling career. He sums up his high school days and pre-wrestling days all in one short chapter. Sometimes writers of biographies or autobiographies tend to spend 5-7 chapters on their early childhood, when the reader wants to just get to the stories of how they got their break. This is not to say the background of the person does not help in the storytelling, but this book was refreshing in the fact that things were summed up quickly, which separates this from other wrestling titles. From starting his gimmick after the Mel Gibson movie Mad Max: The Road Warrior , and knowing several future wrestlers like Scott Simpson (Nikita Koloff) and future partner Hawk at local gyms and bars in Minnesota (at one bar the bouncers were Animal, Hawk, Rick Rude, and Barry Darsow), former wrestler Eddie Sharkey trains the gang and gets Animal a shot in Georgia with booker Ole Anderson. After Anderson has a fight with Jim Barnett, Animal actually quits wrestling for a while, along with Hawk (who was being booked in Canada as a German heel). Ole comes calling later and puts together Hawk and Animal and gives them the Georgia Tag Titles (they kayfabe the win- they never even had a match for the belts). The book then soars , just like the Road Warriors success, with great tales of them being the top tag teams in the NWA and AWA, including when AWA promoter Verne Gagne wanted the Warriors to lose the belts to The Fabulous Ones in a way where the Warriors decided to change the ending. Tales of the team winning over Japan is also included, along with the early (and eventual problematic) ways Hawk started living a party lifestyle that caused him to miss dates , where Animal had to cover for his partner, which got worse when they started working for Vince McMahon Jr. in the WWF. Animal tells the reader about how he first thought when he witnessed Road Warrior imitators through the various promotions via the wrestling magazines, including The Blade Runners in Bill Watts’ Mid South (who later became Sting and The Ultimate Warrior), to when Hawk went to Japan and was wrestling in his own version of the Warriors without Animal knowing about it. The honesty in the book towards Hawk’s lifestyle choices throughout his career makes the writing more than just a typical wrestling book, especially towards the end of the book, where the relationship between the two were strained. Hawk’s failed drug tests in the WWF (WWE) is detailed, where many fans may not have known about, along with the time Jake Roberts was in the WWF as an agent, along with Animal being approached to be one as well. Newer fans may not know all of the names that Animal writes about in the book; he tends to mention their names without most background stories, assuming that the reader knows who the wrestler is, but that also shows an appeal to us fans who have followed it for years. The overall book is a easy read and is a must for those that were fans of the Jim Crockett era territories before it went worldwide when Ted Turner bought it and renamed it WCW. There were many parts of the book that I forgot about ,including when Animal was in the match (sort of) when Sid Vicious broke his leg at WCW Sin , to the hatred between Hawk and Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Another enjoyable part is at the end of the book, several wrestlers detail their thoughts on the Warriors, from Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, Dusty Rhodes, and Bret Hart. I read this book years ago on my Kindle, but recently found a hard copy at a local book sale. I enjoyed reading this book even more the second time I read it, and is one of the better wrestling books that I have come across. The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and The Rush of Wrestling by Joe Laurinaitis with Andrew William Wright (Medallion Press, 2011) can be found at Amazon. The Overall : Pages: 368. Language : Moderate. Geared For : 13 and up. For Fans Of : Wrestling, Sports Biographies, Share this: Like this: Book Review: Vader Time Well Spent. There were certain wrestlers who I just did not like in professional wrestling, regardless of how they were portrayed by the different leagues. A few of them were (especially the WCW era with and Michael Hayes), Bam Bam Bigelow, Stan Hansen, The Ultimate Warrior, and most of the ECW roster were some of the names I never got behind. Another one was Vader (also known as Big Van Vader). I remember following him in the AWA as “Baby Bull” Leon White, and just couldn’t get behind the character; he seemed over pushed to me at the time fighting for the AWA title a few times against Stan Hansen. I was a big Nick Bockwinkel and Curt Hennig fan in the AWA, so whenever White started getting a bigger push in the league, I longed to see Hennig or Bockwinkel in a classic match instead of the “Awe Shucks” persona with a trucker hat in title matches, which was what “Baby Bull” came off as at the time (along with it was hard to get behind a 300 pound man with the nickname “Baby,” thanks to promoter Verne Gagne). Of course, when White signed WCW in the 1990s, Vader was put against my favorite wrestler Sting, who was one of the top stars of the league. Vader came in so strong against Sting as the unstoppable monster, even beating him for the WCW title, really ticked me off as a young teenager. I cheered for some heels (bad guys) in wrestling, but having someone dismantle Sting as Vader did, was just too much for my taste, making Sting not as tough as he originally was in my eyes at the time. It’s Vader Time: The Story of a Modern Day Gladiator by White, along with Kenny Casanova (WOHW Publishers, 2019), tells how White became an international wrestling star, along with his life outside the ring, with tremendous health struggles along the way. Casanova , who was mentioned at the 2019 WWE Hall of Fame (thanks to Brutus Beefcake), also helped write books by Kamala, Brutus Beefcake, and ECW’s Sabu (You can read my review of Beefcake’s book, along with a Q&A with Casanova, on the Slam Sports Wrestling site). After the Foreword from Mick Foley that starts the pages off, the book grabs the reader immediately with White telling the story about the match in Japan against Hansen, where Vader’s eye popped out of its socket (among other injuries during the brawl). The hardcore matches pile up from there, along with the many injuries from his college and pro football and wrestling careers. Tales such as knee and shoulder injuries, along with concussions, are all detailed in the book. White discusses how he started training in the AWA after walking into the locker room one day as a fan straight into the locker room, coming face to face with Bruiser Brody, along with how being trained by Brad Rheigans led him to the world of wrestling to avoid going back to his life of small crimes in Compton, CA which he lived in his youth. After several football injuries, (including a gruesome story where a college teammate had to have a doctor’s assistance with making a hole in his head with a power drill) White learns his stiff style of wrestling by working with some of the toughest wrestlers at the time, including Brody, Hansen, and Otto Wantz in Germany. White , after leaving the AWA, goes to Japan where he receives the Vader gimmick from promoter Antonio Inoki. This part was informative in the reading, due to the detailed description of how the character was created from a Japanese comic book, to how the horned headgear that he wore to the ring was created. The back story about the helmet headgear and its symbolism in culture was more than just a gimmick that was given to him; details on how the helmet’s steam blowing out of it worked , and the other wrestlers who were originally considered to be the Vader character was also insightful. The book covers Vader’s WCW and WWE careers as well, including great behind the scenes stories about Sting, Dusty Rhodes, , Ron Simmons, and Mick Foley. There are signature events in his career that are covered too , such as The White Castle of Fear, the 1993 Beach Blast mini movie (where the executives at Turner Home Entertainment decided that wrestling heels blowing up a boat with a spy little person was a great idea), the WCW title reigns, Foley losing his ear in a match with him, and the time he injured preliminary wrestler Joe Thurman, which ended Thurman’s career. Tales about backstage politics by Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Eric Bischoff, and Hulk Hogan are also discussed in the writing. Vader’s take on the 1997 Montreal Screw job between Bret Hart and Michaels, from his point of view, to his appearances on the TV show Boy Meets World are also featured. The book isn’t all about his wrestling career in the American, Mexican, German, and Japanese leagues. The publication covers the emotional tales about the injuries White accumulated throughout his career, which made for serious health problems toward the end of his life, from his battles with sleep apnea, arthritis, breathing problems, and being in a coma. The emotional diagnosis of his heart and the last year of his life is covered by his son, which gives another aspect of the events. One meeting with a doctor discussing his health issues gives a special meaning to the subtitle of the book , using the term “gladiator”, which ties the cover to the theme of the book, gives the complete package its fullness (no spoilers here, but the title wasn’t just randomly chosen). Vader, along with Casanova, combines humor with the inner workings of wrestling on top of an emotional backdrop which many wrestling fans should enjoy. Usually self-published books are filled with grammar errors and unchecked facts, which sometimes makes it hard for me to review. Although editors sometimes miss errors here and there, it should not be so evident to distract from the overall book. The writing here does just that, by keeping the story going, in which I kept reading page after page, because the tone kept me wanting to read more. After reading this book, I started to go back and watch some of the highlighted matches that are available online to re-watch Vader’s matches. I think one reason I disliked him so much against Sting (looking at it now, knowing more about how wrestling is presented) was that White was just that good at being the monster heel, which was his job. Dusty Rhodes’ booking of him as unstoppable worked big time, and also made his WCW title loss to Ron Simmons more shocking because no one could beat Vader at the time, even the top star Sting. By the time he got to the WWF, he was not only injured (as told in the book), but , in my opinion, was limited in what he could do, which weakened him after the dominate years in WCW and international tours that made him outshine everyone on the rosters (with help from the boost of the wrestling magazines, like the ones owned by Stanley Weston). I did get to see him live in 1997 in Youngstown , Ohio verses Kane at a live event with the WWF (he was scheduled another time, but wasn’t there). I was hoping for a part about Vader returning to the WWE as a part of the Table For 3 show, where he was with Sting, and Diamond Dallas Page, or maybe why he agreed to do it. The only part he discusses here is his brief returns in matches against Heath Slater, and inducting Stan Hansen in the WWE Hall of Fame. Being a Sting fan, many wrestling books briefly mention him in passing, so the more stories about him I can get is good with me , and this book is one of the books with several stories about The Stinger, especially how much he helped Vader in his WCW matches (which as a Sting fan, I figured it was the office making him look bad by getting destroyed in matches at times- this book dispels that myth, by stating how Sting helped plan out the matches and took Vader under his wing to teach him a different style of wrestling that he wasn’t used to). At almost 400 pages, the book does a great job covering Vader’s life, without missing much. This was a very enjoyable book, especially since I was not a huge Vader fan. The cover of the book is amazing , with Vader standing in front of the Rocky Mountains with the helmet and skulls below his feet. When the book came in the mail, and I opened the package, I was in awe of how well done the packaging covers (both front and back) were designed, which again, sometimes self published books tend to ignore. Don’t let not being a Vader fan prevent you from checking this book out (if you weren’t a fan of his gimmick), because there are great tales about the AWA (which tends to get overlooked in books), WCW, WWF, and the Japanese leagues and stars. Being not a huge fan of Japanese wrestling, I thought the extended tales about his time in Japan would drag and lose my interest, however this was not the case. Along with the touching tales of forgiveness throughout the book, from White’s problems with certain wrestlers to reconnecting with his son (after years of being on the road) before Vader’s 2018 death, the book gives a new look on the person who was a dominate monster in front of the audiences, yet a different man when he was away from the cameras. This review copy was sent courtesy of Kenny Casanova and WOHW Publishers. It’s Vader Time : The Story of a Modern Day Gladiator (WOHW Publishers, 2019) by Leon White and Kenny Casanova (ISBN: 978-1- 941356-08-1) can be ordered at http://www.wohw.com. You can also find out more about the author at :www.kennycasanova.com. The Overall: Pages: 397. Language: Moderate. Geared For: Ages 12 and up. For Fans Of: 1980s-1990s Pro Wrestling, Autobiographies. Top 10 Best Bruiser Brody Book Reviews & Comparison. Looking for the best bruiser brody book? We have evaluated 256051 reviews from top experts. Here are our top-ranked picks, including top- selling bruiser brody book. Having trouble buying a great bruiser brody book? We understand this problem because we have gone through the entire bruiser brody book research process already, which is why we have put together a comprehensive list of the best bruiser brody book available in the market today. 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