Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches - Hardcover

Oliver Hurley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905411766 ISBN 13: 9781905411764

Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Experienced wrestling journalist Oliver Hurley, a regular contributor to Power Slam magazine, has scoured 100 years' worth of mat mayhem to reveal the pseudo-sport's oddest bouts, from the contest in which a tag team lost their championship belts six days before they won them, to the match that took place in an exploding swimming pool. There are - Includes 50 candid shots from the world's foremost wrestling photographers, and a cast that includes Hulk Hogan, Kendo Nagasaki, Muhammad Ali, a wrestling robot and a monkey. With revealing interviews with the sport's stars from the past and present and a breadth of coverage, from present-day WWE to old-school British wrestling, this book goes beyond the accepted canon of headlock history to celebrate the grap game at its very strangest, and will appeal to a wide range of wrestling fans.

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Review:

"Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches is one of the most interesting books on Professional Wrestling in quite some time. Far from being a simple listing of odd bouts, the book provides in-depth background and context on each of the matches featured, revealing details that are both historically significant and genuinely entertaining. Comments from the wrestlers themselves reveal the little known details behind many of these infamous battles. Enjoy!" --dirtydirtysheets.com

"Pro-wrestling's a weird world at the best of times. Worked fights, carny slang and ridiculous characters and costumes add up to a slightly surreal, slightly deranged rarified atmosphere where grown men can defy gravity, pain and occasionally logic. But there's times when even that world goes a little bit mental. Which is where a fun new book by Oliver Hurley comes in. Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches is a fantastic wee book charting the weirdest moments in professional wrestling history. From the moment Kendo Nagasaki started hypnotising his opponent to the day NY Times best seller Mick Foley lost his ear during a match, the best of the worst are all in there. It's great toilet reading, even if you're not much of a wrestling fan. Indeed, it probably helps if you're not, since going into it cold means you can be even more amazed at just how bonkers crazy some of this stuff is. And if you do know your onions, there's bound to be stuff in here that you've either never heard of, or tried desperatey to forget. Like the Viagra on a Pole match, or the Mass Transit incident. Or Crash Holly in the ball pool. In fact, the only thing that's not in there is this particular curio from WCW, when some bright spark at Centre Stage thought it'd be a great idea to have Steve 'Sting' Borden tag with - and be rescued by - Robocop. No, really..." --The Daily Record

"Wrestling's 101 Strangest Matches is a thoroughly entertaining read from start through finish. It is capable of being read in one sitting or in many short sittings. Covering everything from hilarious tales of winning by hypnosis to the extremely bizarre Japanese bath house matches. This is not meant to be a serious or informative look into the world of wrestling, Oliver Hurley accomplishes exactly what you expect he set out to achieve, compiling a list of some of the most amusingly weird moments in pro-wrestling all gathered together inside one handily sized, fun-filled, hard back book for hardcore wrestling fans and the casual fan." --wrestlingtruth.com

"You'll have immense fun with Hurley's book, a truly original look at a mad, bad and dangerous world." --Simon Garfield, author of The Wrestling

You'll have immense fun with Hurley's book, a truly original look at a mad, bad and dangerous world. --Simon Garfield, author of The Wrestling

About the Author:

Oliver Hurley writes regularly for Power Slam. You can follow him on Twitter at @wrestling101 and you find out more about his non-wrestling journalism at oliverhurley.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1905411766
• ISBN 13: 9781905411764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192