Product Description

Wrestling's Most Wanted profiles 700 of the most outrageous wrestlers, obnoxious managers, and powerful promoters in pro wrestling history, including all of today's greatest stars, including Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Mick Foley, Goldberg, and Sid Vicious. It also remembers the greats of the past, such as Gorgeous George, Dick the Bruiser, The Sheik, Superfly, Jimmy Snuka, Argentina Rocca, Abdullah the Butcher, Bruno Sammartino, and André the Giant.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #825601 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Back in the U.S., Floyd Connor (Baseball's Most Wanted) pays tribute to a national phenom in Wrestling's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Pro Wrestling's Outrageous Performers, Punishing Piledrivers, and Other Oddities. Deftly matching form to content, Floyd rates the best-dressed, the ugliest, the most mentally unsound, the most occult, the sexiest and every other conceivable category of world-class wrestler, supplying juicy blurbs about each contender. From Chyna to Shark Boy to "IRS agent" Irwin R. Schyster, everyone gets their 15 seconds in the spotlight. 20 b&w photos.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Publishers Weekly
“Deftly matching form to content . . .supplying juicy blurbs about each contender.”

About the Author
Floyd Conner is the author of numerous popular sports books, including BASEBALL'S MOST WANTED, FOOTBALL'S MOST WANTED, and GOLF!, which sold more than 150,000 copies. He has been interviewed many times for radio, newspaper, and television and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Customer Reviews

Great idea for a book on the biz, but does not deliver
Books on the subject of pro wrestling are coming out in great quantity these days. A few are great, many are so-so, and some are disappointing. I hate to say this book is one of the disappointments; I love the idea of a pro wrestling "book of lists," I've even known enthusiasts who have considered trying out the idea. "Wrestling's Most Wanted" delivers list after list of stage names, family combos, gimmicks... the categories themselves are interesting, but the examples give little interesting information other than citing who used what gimmick, who uses which finishing hold, etc... I doubt the author really knows a lot about pro wrestling; it seems like he merely collected a book's worth of information and tossed them into a book. Maybe those who know nothing about the pro wrestling biz might enjoy some of the newfound information in these lists; if so, kudos to the author for turning newbies into possible fans. If you are, on the other hand, a wrestling fan who is only even ankle deep in your pro wrestling studies and initiation, you are much better off purchasing the autobiographies of Lou Thesz, Mick Foley and Dynamite Kid.