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My Life In Wrestling
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I will always hold a special respect for people who have survived plane crashes.
The thing is, I didn’t know that Gary Hart survived the plane crash before I started reading this book because I didn’t even know who Gary Hart was! This book just kept being brought up in lists of the best books about the business, and I finally decided to read it.
It’s a long one, and it took me a while to finish, but I loved every bit of it. Could it be the best book about pro-wrestling ever written? Probably, which is why it’s shocking that we do not hear about Gary Hart more often. In fact, I think I belonged to the majority when I started reading this book and had no idea who the author was in the wrestling universe. And after reading about all he did for the business, I am surprised. Now I smirk every time I see him in old footage, like in Dark Side of the Ring’s latest season (which did not pack the same punch of the previous installments, unfortunately).
Out of all the other wrestling books that I’ve read - and I have read quite a few - the only one that compares in terms of care, dedication, and passion that were put into it is Bruno Sammartino’s book. And the next one to compare will be the book Chris Jericho will write in the future to bring his whole anthology together. Calling it right now.
Coincidentally, Bruno Sammartino himself shows up in this book a lot since the time period covered, in terms of the talent featured in it, stretches from the age of Fritz Von Erich, all the way to Lo-Ki, and I may just have become the first person ever to put those two in the same sentence.
The thing is, I didn’t know that Gary Hart survived the plane crash before I started reading this book because I didn’t even know who Gary Hart was! This book just kept being brought up in lists of the best books about the business, and I finally decided to read it.
It’s a long one, and it took me a while to finish, but I loved every bit of it. Could it be the best book about pro-wrestling ever written? Probably, which is why it’s shocking that we do not hear about Gary Hart more often. In fact, I think I belonged to the majority when I started reading this book and had no idea who the author was in the wrestling universe. And after reading about all he did for the business, I am surprised. Now I smirk every time I see him in old footage, like in Dark Side of the Ring’s latest season (which did not pack the same punch of the previous installments, unfortunately).
Out of all the other wrestling books that I’ve read - and I have read quite a few - the only one that compares in terms of care, dedication, and passion that were put into it is Bruno Sammartino’s book. And the next one to compare will be the book Chris Jericho will write in the future to bring his whole anthology together. Calling it right now.
Coincidentally, Bruno Sammartino himself shows up in this book a lot since the time period covered, in terms of the talent featured in it, stretches from the age of Fritz Von Erich, all the way to Lo-Ki, and I may just have become the first person ever to put those two in the same sentence.
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