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This meticulously crafted and searing critique of pro wrestling is unlike any wrestling book published: Chokehold is a penetrating description of pro wrestlings dark side, a secret underw… Mehr…

This meticulously crafted and searing critique of pro wrestling is unlike any wrestling book published: Chokehold is a penetrating description of pro wrestlings dark side, a secret underworld of deception, exploitation and greed. The storyteller is Big Jim Wilson, All-American football player and survivor of seven years in the NFL, who was promised wealth and the world championship as pro wrestler. Instead, Jim Wilson found a surprisingly lucrative sports entertainment industry built on a pyram This meticulously crafted and searing critique of pro wrestling is unlike any wrestling book published: Chokehold is a penetrating description of pro wrestlings dark side, a secret underworld of deception, exploitation and greed. The storyteller is Big Jim Wilson, All-American football player and survivor of seven years in the NFL, who was promised wealth and the world championship as pro wrestler. Instead, Jim Wilson found a surprisingly lucrative sports entertainment industry built on a pyramid of secrets that included abusive control of its performers and a long history of illegal business practices and corruption of politicians and state athletic commissions. Chokehold describes and documents the abuses that Jim Wilson witnessed and endured blacklisting, strong-arm tactics, homosexual blackmail, defiance of the U.S. Justice Department and bribery of TV executives and arena managers. Chokehold is an explosive indictment of the pro wrestling industrys business practices as well as a thoughtful proposal for pro wrestlings reform. This book is not a conventional expos of pro wrestlings orchestrated stunts, gimmicks and blade jobs. Instead, it is an unprecedented examination of pro wrestlings less visible cons outside the ring - its hidden manipulation of wrestlers with broken promises and broken bones and a backstage power of the pencil that writes scripts for wrestler stardom or extinction. Chokehold describes a secret slice of the wrestling life where traveling troupes of heels and babyfaces understand how they got into the game, but cannot find a way up or out. This is the story of why and how the big guys almost always lose. Chokehold is part autobiography and part pro wrestling history. Written in wrestlespeak (the industrys insider argot), it is dedicated to the memory of the older boys whose broken bodies and shattered lives should have taught us something. In addition to Jim Wilsons experiences in The Business, this book reviews significant but forgotten epi Wrestling, Individual Sports, Chokehold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring~~ Jim Wilson, Weldon T. Johnson~~Wrestling~~Individual Sports~~9781462811724, en, Chokehold: Pro Wrestling's Real Mayhem Outside the Ring, Jim Wilson, Weldon T. Johnson, 9781462811724, Xlibris US, 09/02/2003, , , , Xlibris US, 09/02/2003<

ISBN: 9781462811724

The Hidden Underside of Pro Wrestling Exposed By its Most Controversial Whistleblower - Big Jim Wilson The first thing you should know about Jim Wilson is that he has credentials. Hi… Mehr…

The Hidden Underside of Pro Wrestling Exposed By its Most Controversial Whistleblower - Big Jim Wilson The first thing you should know about Jim Wilson is that he has credentials. His great-great-great uncle signed the Declaration of Independence. His father was a decorated naval officer in World War II. Jim was Vince Dooley's first All-American football player at the University of Georgia. There isn't much that is red, white or blue that Big Jim and his family haven't stood for these past 200 years. 'I'm not a nut off the street, in other words, Wilson said.' He played seven years as an offensive lineman in the National Football League. He was named to the 1965 all-rookie team along with Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus. He finished his career with the Los Angeles Rams in 1971. Today, Jim Wilson wears three-piece suits and sells real estate in Georgia. He has a wife, six kids and a mission. He wants to clean up professional wrestling. - Ray Didinger, Philadelphia Daily News * There ain't no nice guys in this business. There ain't no people - there's dollars! - The Sheik (Eddie Farhat), former wrestler and promoter. Wrestlers have never been allowed to unionize. There's no pension, no health benefits... You're a piece of meat. I knew guys that had worked hard for twenty years or more and still retired with nothing. Wrestling evolved from the carnivals. They've tried to keep us back in those carnival days. It doesn't behoove promoters to have wrestlers who know what their rights are. - Jesse Ventura, former wrestler (now Minnesota Governor) This is the most insensitive business in the world and it will continue to be until somebody does something about it. We don't have the type of backing, be it union-wise or health insurance-wise and the reason is because under the current system, everybody has to look out after themselves. - Ric Flair, former wrestling champion. Wrestling is a huge industry now, and the industry needs to take care of its own. Wrestlers do not have many friends. - Rowdy Roddy Piper, former wrestler. You don't go to authorities if you want to eat because you're dead. You're finished, kaput, blackballed... there's no union, there's no protection for the wrestler. - Bruno Sammartino former wrestling champion. I like a lotta things about wrestling - There is no union, and if one of those blonde superstars gets hurt or retires, you can create another one. - Eddie Einhorn, Chicago White Sox owner and former wrestling promoter . Digital Content>E-books>Sports>Wrestling>Wrestling, Xlibris Corporation Digital >16<

ISBN: 9781462811724

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2003, ISBN: 9781462811724

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2003, ISBN: 9781462811724

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