Review: Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians By Greg Oliver

The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians
Greg Oliver with Foreword By Jacques Rougeau
ECW Press, 2002
Paperback, Ebook

Slam! Wrestling's Greg Oliver is one of the wrestling industry's most respected and prolific historians.  Oliver's The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians (2002) is one of Oliver's masterful works that thematically chronicle key individuals and events in the history of professional wrestling. The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series also includes: The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams (2005), The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels (2007) and The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: Heroes and Icons (2012). The Canadians is the only book in the series that was not co-written with Steven Johnson. Oliver is also the co-writer of Slam! Wrestling: Shocking Stories from the Squared Circle (2009) and was one of four contributors to Benoit: Wrestling With The Horror That Destroyed A Family and Crippled A Sport (2007) and has also written several books on the history of hockey.

Review: The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams By Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson

Review: The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams
Greg Oliver and Steven Johnson, Bobby Eaton (Foreword)
ECW Press, 2005
Paperback, Ebook

Oliver and Johnson have collaborated to write a comprehensive, entertaining and enlightening book about the most notable tag team wrestlers of the 20th century.  Through extensive research, which includes interviews with many of the featured personalities, their family members and friends, Oliver and Johnson excellently chronicle the careers of those who made their mark through tag team excellence.

The book is broken into chapters based on the eras in which the profiled tag teams were most prominent. Each chapter is a broad strokes picture of the North American tag team division during a particular time frame.  Each profile