Thursday, January 21, 2016

Note: Best Book of 2015 - Wrestling Observer Awards


The 36th Annual Wrestling Observer Readership awards were announced earlier this week. For a complete list of the winners and runners-up check out the Wrestling Observer website. 

Daniel Bryan and Craig Tello's Yes! My Improbable Journey To The Main Event of Wrestlemania was the bigger winner in the Best Book category with 386 votes.  A distant second at 82 votes was Backlund by former WWF Champion Bob Backlund and Robert Miller, followed closely by Lion's Pride by Chris Charlton with 81 votes. The complete list is below.  Most titles are available at Amazon. Canadian readers can get the goods and help support the site by visiting the Wrestlebook Review Amazon store.

2015 Wrestling Observer Best Pro Wrestling Book

Number of Votes are in brackets.

2. Backlund by Bob Backlund and Robert Miller (82)
3. Lion's Pride by Chris Charlton (81)
4. My Fight/Your Fight by Ronda Rousey and Maria Burns
5. Strangler Lewis by Steve Yohe (15)
6. Battleground Baltimore by Graham Cawthon (13)
7. Is Wrestling Fixed by Bill Apter (11)

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Review: 1984: The Year Wrestling Changed Forever By Dusty Wolfe

1984: The Year Wrestling Changed Forever: 
Wrestling's Most Pivitol Year: The Territories ENDED and the WWE Came To Power
By Dusty Wolfe
Self Published, 2014
Ebook

Long time journeyman Dusty Wolfe's self published ebook is a quick look at the 1984 professional wrestling scene. Wolfe has wrestled throughout the world and is best remembered for his time as a recurring enhancement worker in the WWF/E and WCW. 1984: The Year Wrestling Changed Forever is one of several books/articles written by Wolfe. His best known work is his 2008 autobiography Journal of a Journeyman.