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1550226614 03 02 1550226614 03 9781550226614 15 9781550226614 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226614.htm 1 A01 Alvarez, Bryan 336 WSTC 02 In 1997, World Championship Wrestling was on top. But by 2001 everything had bottomed out. The company having lost a whopping 95% of its audience was sold for next to nothing to Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment and WCW was laid to rest. The Death of World Championship Wrestling is the first book to take readers through a detailed dissection of WCWs downfall. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550226614.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050201 UNIREPS 02 21 02 24.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050201 1550226851 03 02 1550226851 03 9781550226850 15 9781550226850 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226851.htm 1 A01 Kleinberg, "Sir" Adam 2 A01 Nudelman, Adam "The Phantom" 240 WSTC 02 A hysterical and informative look at the sports entertainment industry, brought to you by the hosts of Get in the Ring (GIR), the longest running professional wrestling radio show in history. With Sir Adam and the Phantom, you'll discover the truth about wrestling's deepest, darkest mysteries but the hosts of gir are not alone. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550226851.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050401 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050401 155022445X 03 02 155022445X 03 9781550224450 15 9781550224450 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/155022445X.htm 1 A01 Hofstede, David 153 WSTC 02 It began at traveling carnivals in the 1900s, where wrestlers known as hookers would issue open challenges for cash prizes. In the 1920s, champions such as Frank Gotch and Joe Stecher would wrestle title matches before sold-out stadium crowds. Wrestling faded in the 30s and 40s, only to achieve a stunning comeback thanks to the medium of television. The fans may think their favourite sport began with the Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, but professional wrestling has been entertaining audiences for more than 100 years. Wrestling: A Pictorial History forges the link between wrestlings fascinating past and its current wave of unprecedented popularity. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20010801 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20010801 1550227289 03 02 1550227289 03 9781550227284 15 9781550227284 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227289.htm 1 A01 Guttman, James 400 WSTC 02 World Wrestling Insanity sets out to expose the nepotism, backwards logic, and power plays that have made World Wrestling Entertainment go round. Alongside many well known names in wrestling, author James Guttman uses sarcasm, humour, and facts to break down the secrets of Vince McMahons company and analyze the reasoning behind many of the decisions made. Never before has WWE, the McMahon Family, Triple H, and others been held up to the light and examined so closely. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227289.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20070101 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20070101 1550227092 03 02 1550227092 03 9781550227093 15 9781550227093 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227092.htm 1 A01 Cappetta, Gary Michael 305 WSTC 02 The author weaves commentary about the business and its populace with travel tales and personal insight. He sheds light on the dangerous games that both the performing wrestlers and their corporate employers play in order to acquire power, fame, and wealth. During the three decades he spent as ring announcer for Americas two dominant wrestling promotions, Cappetta occupied the same locker rooms, hotels, and vehicles as his athletic counterparts. Unlike many other mat biographies, this is neither a boast or a bitch-fest and there is no promotion behind the publication attempting to rewrite history to its liking. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227092.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20060401 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20060401 1550226843 03 02 1550226843 03 9781550226843 15 9781550226843 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226843.htm 1 A01 Matysik, Larry 232 WSTC 02 This is a fond, informative, amusing, and even poignant look at the who's who of professional wrestling and legendary St. Louis promoter Sam Muchnick. St. Louis was the capital, and Muchnick the ruler of professional wrestling, before Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment took over. What happened in St. Louis paved the way for today's multi-billion-dollar sports entertainment industry. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20060930 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20060930 1550227629 02 02 1550227629 03 9781550227628 15 9781550227628 BC Wrestlecrap http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227629.htm 1 A01 Reynolds, R D 2 A01 Braxton, Blade 300 WSTC 02 Ever wanted to know the worst career choices pro wrestlers made upon retirement? Or which kung fu chop-socky wrestlers would make Bruce Lee do a backflip in his grave? The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! has all that and much more. The gloves are off as best-selling author RD Reynolds and his co-author Blade Braxton pull no punches in looking at some of wrestlings biggest mistakes, most comical mishaps and most egotistical performers. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 02 20070901 UNIREPS 02 10 20070901 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20070901 1550226835 03 02 1550226835 03 9781550226836 15 9781550226836 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226835.htm 1 A01 Oliver, Greg 2 A01 Johnson, Stephen 280 WSTC 02 When you put four pro wrestlers in a ring, you double the athleticism, mischief, and entertainment. That's the equation behind The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams, the first comprehensive and historical look at wrestling's tag team phenomenon. It contains hundreds of extensive interviews with well-known wrestlers, promoters, and managers a who's who of wrestling since the 1950s to reveal tales of pain, measly payoffs, and a trade that was practised as much for love as money. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550226835.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050501 UNIREPS 02 21 02 25.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050501 1550225952 03 02 1550225952 03 9781550225952 15 9781550225952 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550225952.htm 1 A01 Hart, Jimmy 180 WSTC 02 An omnipresent megaphone and maniacal, high-pitched giggle are the only clues that fans of pro-wrestling need to identify perhaps the most successful and internationally recognizable in-ring manager of all time: Jimmy The Mouth of the South Hart. In The Mouth of the South, discover the many faces of Americas beloved entertainer. Hart found fame early in the music biz with The Gentrys hit song Keep on Dancing. In the 70s, a second big break changed his life. Memphis wrestling gave birth to a new Jimmy Hart wrestlings most loved and at times hated manager. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050201 UNIREPS 02 21 02 24.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050201 1550227610 03 02 1550227610 03 9781550227611 15 9781550227611 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227610.htm 1 A01 Muchnick, Irvin 176 WSTC 02 Traces the demise of wrestlings old Mafia-like territories and the rise of a national marketing base thanks to cable television, deregulation, and a culture-wide nervous breakdown. Naturally, the figure of WWEs Vince McMahon lurks throughout, but equally evident is the publics late-empire lust for bread, circuses, and blood. As this book demonstrates, the more cartoonishly unreal wrestling got, the more chillingly real it became. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227610.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20070701 UNIREPS 02 21 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20070701 1550227602 02 02 1550227602 03 9781550227604 15 9781550227604 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227602.htm 1 A01 Matysik, Larry 2 A01 Goodish, Barbara 240 WSTC 02 Bruiser Brody had no peers when it came to blood and guts, controversy and independence. Most wrestling promoters portrayed their top talent as exactly that kind of free-spirited, take-no-guff personality. They didnt mean it, though which explains why so few would admit to respecting Brody even as they featured him time and again. So why did they give him work? Simple. Bruiser Brody delivered the goods in the ring and at the box office. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227602.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 02 20070901 UNIREPS 02 10 20070901 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20070901 1550224980 03 02 1550224980 03 9781550224986 15 9781550224986 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550224980.htm 1 A01 Hyatt, Missy with Charles Salzberg, Mark Goldblatt 176 WSTC 02 First came Missy. Then came Sable, Sunny, Chyna, and the rest. Missy Hyatt was professional wrestling's first character the original sexy "socialite" sidekick whose trademark Gucci purse and tough-girl attitude made her the most loved and most hated woman in wrestling. Now, fifteen years after she first shimmied up to the ring, Missy Hyatt takes fans inside the world of wrestling. In this no-holds-barred memoir, Missy discloses the behind-the-scenes secrets of table-throwing, chair-smashing, hair-pulling, and the technique of "juicing" how wrestlers make themselves bleed on cue. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20020801 UNIREPS 02 20 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20020801 1550225847 03 02 1550225847 03 9781550225846 15 9781550225846 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550225847.htm 1 A01 Baer, Randy 2 A01 Reynolds, R D 269 WSTC 02 This book examines some of the ridiculously horrible characters and storylines that pro wrestling promoters have subjected their fans to over the past twenty years. Why would any sane person think that having two grown men fight over a turkey was actually a reasonable idea? Was George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle, really the best gimmick that a major promotional organization could come up with? And who would charge fans to watch a wrestler named the Gobbeldy Gooker emerge from an egg? In an attempt to answer such questions and figure out just what the promoters were thinking, authors Randy Baer and R.D. Reynolds go beyond what wrestling fans saw on the screen and delve into the mindset of those in the production booth. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20040601 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20040601 9781550227413 03 03 9781550227413 15 9781550227413 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781550227413.htm 1 A01 Hornbaker, Tim 300 WSTC 02 In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmens conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry hid their illegal practices from the U.S. Department of Justice until they were caught. The sport that privileged cold hard cash over honest competition was professional wrestling, and the conspirators were members of the famed National Wrestling Alliance. This book examines the NWA promoters overwhelming success, and the relationships to influential politicians and writers that protected their financial interests for over 50 years. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20070101 UNIREPS 02 20 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20070101 1550225316 03 02 1550225316 03 9781550225310 15 9781550225310 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550225316.htm 1 A01 Oliver, Greg 280 WSTC 02 The dark secret of professional wrestling? Canada. By population, no other country on Earth has sent as many top performers to the upper echelon of the squared circle. But to this day, the Canadian origins of these superstars have been hidden or played down by promoters. Here, for the first time in print, respected wrestling author Greg Oliver blows the lid off the secrets: Rowdy Roddy Piper was never from Scotland, hes from Saskatche-wan; Mad Dog Vachon, billed from Algeria, was from Quebec; Abdullah the Butcher learned to use a fork in Windsor, Ontario; Val Venis isnt a porn star from Las Vegas but a wannabe helicopter pilot from southern Ontario. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20030101 UNIREPS 02 20 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20030101 1550226916 03 02 1550226916 03 9781550226911 15 9781550226911 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226916.htm 1 A01 Wall, Jeremy 220 WSTC 02 Profiles some of the world's most phenomenal athletes in a sport that combines finesse and sportsmanship and brutality and violence like nothing you've ever seen. Jeremy Wall's book details the struggles of the ten greatest fighters in Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) history. This book is designed to generate debate among MMA fans about who the greatest fighter is, by exploring the lives, careers, fights, and accomplishments of UFC's most prominent athletes. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550226916.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050901 UNIREPS 02 21 02 25.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050901 1550227084 03 02 1550227084 03 9781550227086 15 9781550227086 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227084.htm 1 A01 Watts, "Cowboy" Bill Watts 2 A01 Williams, Scott 330 WSTC 02 Bill Watts takes us from his stormy upbringing and his tumultuous years at the University of Oklahoma, to his days in the wrestling business, sparing nothing in his details about football coaching legend Bud Wilkinson, ugly encounters with some of the top names in wrestling in the 1960s, and frightening stories about skirting tragedy and the law in violent altercations. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227084.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20060505 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20060505 9781550225679 03 03 9781550225679 15 9781550225679 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/9781550225679.htm 1 A01 Pulver, Jens 188 WSTC 02 At ten years of age, lined up alongside his two brothers in the living room of their Seattle home, Jens Pulver stared down the length of a shotgun into his fathers haggard face. Because Jens was the oldest, the one constantly running upstairs to protect his mother in the middle of the night, his father placed the barrel into his mouth first. Fear taught Jens how to attack with his fists. Fear taught him how to get what he wanted, by any means necessary. Fear put him on the path toward becoming a world champion fighter, to prove wrong all those who claimed he wouldnt amount to any more than his drunk old man. It was this path the one that would make him the most intimidating pound-for-pound fighter in the ring that eventually let him put his childhood demons to rest and find an inner peace. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20031001 UNIREPS 02 20 02 24.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20031001 1550227599 02 02 1550227599 03 9781550227598 15 9781550227598 BC Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227599.htm 1 A01 Oliver, Greg 2 A01 Johnson, Steven 300 WSTC 02 Here is the most comprehensive look ever at the colourful villains, heels, bad guys and rule breakers who give professional wrestling so much of its character. In The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels, Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson take readers on an informative and entertaining ride through mat mayhem. With their signature mix of original research, interviews, and anecdotes, they describe the rise and development of wrestling's bad guys, from riots in small-town arenas in the 1920s to the mega-event pay-per-views of today. Intended for everyone from casual fans to wrestling historians, the book explains how a barrel-chested Milwaukee brewer became wrestling's first Nazi, then served his country with distinction in World War II. You'll find out how bleached blond bad guys like the legendary Ric Flair trace their lineage to Gorgeous George and about the little-known Ohioan that George himself emulated. And of course, Oliver and Johnson's list of the most influential heels in history is sure to spark debate. Like its predecessors in this series, the book features more than a hundred rarely or never-before-seen photos of wrestling's most despised characters it's a must read for anyone interested in the unique world of sports entertainment. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227599.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 02 20070801 UNIREPS 02 10 20070801 02 34.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 02 01 20070801 1550227270 03 02 1550227270 03 9781550227277 15 9781550227277 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227270.htm 1 A01 Robertson, Dewey 2 A01 Renwick, Meredith 215 WSTC 02 Written in a plain-talk, straight-from-the heart style, Bang Your Head tells Deweys story from the very beginning growing up in the wrestling mecca of Hamilton, Ontario; becoming one of the stalwarts of Torontos Maple Leaf Wrestling promotion; moving to the southern United States to morph into one of wrestlings most popular goons; losing his career and abusing alcohol and drugs; beicomng destitute and homeless for nearly a year; returning to Canada to begin a long road to recovery; and finally emerging victorious only to find that his fans were still waiting. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227270.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20070401 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20070401 1550227262 03 02 1550227262 03 9781550227260 15 9781550227260 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227262.htm 1 A01 Fritz, Brian 2 A01 Murray, Christopher 312 WSTC 02 Between the Ropes examines the last decade of pro wrestling, looking at the unprecedented popularity surge that transformed it into a legitimate billion-dollar business, and the decision-making follies that put WWE back down on the mat. The book features all the major wrestling stars: The Rock, Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Vince McMahon, Mick Foley, Bret Hart, Sting, Eric Bischoff, Chris Jericho, Rob Van Dam, and Shane Douglas. 04 01 http://www.unireps.com.au/itemimages/webimages/1550227262.jpg ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20070401 UNIREPS 02 21 02 29.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20070401 1550227041 03 02 1550227041 03 9781550227048 15 9781550227048 BB http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550227041.htm 1 A01 Russo, Vince 340 WSTC 02 Ask pro wrestling fans about Vince Russo and youre sure to get a heated reaction: either the guys a genius, or he single-handedly ruined the sport. Whats weird about being the most hated man in an industry where public ire is money in the bank? Vince Russo wasnt even a wrestler he just wrote the stuff. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20050901 UNIREPS 02 20 02 44.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20050901 1550226460 03 02 1550226460 03 9781550226461 15 9781550226461 BC http://www.unireps.com.au/isbn/1550226460.htm 1 A01 Carolan, Vinnie 2 A01 Symkus, Ed 304 WSTC 02 A comprehensive collection of unique, exclusive interviews with the biggest names and players in the raucous, controversial world of professional wrestling, Wrestle Radio U.S.A.: Grapplers Speak is both a fascinating oral history and an insiders guide into the ups and downs, the show-business, athleticism, and politics of a multi-million dollar entertainment industry. ECW Press 01 ECW Press 04 20040401 UNIREPS 02 21 02 24.95 UNIREPS 07 AU 04 01 20040401