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Job Man : My Life in Professional Wrestling.
Published 2019Full text (Wentworth users only)
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Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling, 2d ed.
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True Tokyo : Sport / CNN.
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The Suffering Body in Sport : Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury / edited by Kevin Young.
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Regulating the Harmful, Injurious and Risky Business of Professional Wrestling /…”
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Thrashing seasons : sporting culture in Manitoba and the genesis of prairie wrestling / C. Nathan Hatton.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Before the boom : wrestling to 1896 -- Manitoba's pros : professional wrestling during the western boom, 1896-1914 -- Wrestling with ethnicity, 1896-1914 -- The "Simon Pures" : amateur wrestling to 1914 -- Grappling with the Great War, 1914-18 -- Professional wrestling's "golden age", 1919-29 -- Amateurism expands : amateur wresting in Manitoba, 1919-29 -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Manitoba amateur wrestling champions 1908-30 -- Appendix 2 Manitoba islendingadagurinn Glima Champions before 1930.…”
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Historical dictionary of wrestling / John Grasso.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Reader's Note -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Appendix A: Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Inductees -- Appendix B: Nicknames and Ring Names -- Appendix C: Professional Wrestlers Who Used Their Real Names -- Appendix D: Early Professional Wrestling Heavyweight Champions -- Appendix E: Wrestlemania Events -- Appendix F: Royal Rumble Events -- Appendix G: Professional Wrestling Promotional Groups -- Appendix H: Fédération Internationale de Luttes Associees (FILA) Hall of Fame Inductees -- Appendix I: Olympic Wrestling Champions Greco-Roman Style -- Appendix J: National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Champions -- Appendix K: Dan Hodge Trophy Winners -- Bibliography -- About the Author.…”
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Parts unknown : wrestling, gimmicks and other works / Michael Holmes.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Parts Unknown; Battle Royal; 10 Bell Salute; Finishing Moves; Parts Unknown: A Selected Professional Wrestling Glossary; Notes and Acknowledgements.…”
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Sport, Crime and Deviance.
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Covers; Introduction; Sport exceptionalism and the Court of Arbitration for Sport; Amateurism, scientific control, and crime: historical fluctuations in anti-doping discourses in sport; Sexual violence and collegiate athletics: US federal law, adjudication and the media spotlight; In plain sight -- examining the harms of professional wrestling as state-corporate crime; Challenging popular representations of child trafficking in football; The problems and causes of match-fixing:are legal sports betting regimes to blame?…”
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Wrestling with Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering.
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Marketing sports through the ages / guest editors, J. Andrew Ross and Stephen Hardy.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Toward a history of sport branding; Spectator consumption practices at the Roman games; Six-day racing entrepreneurs and the emergence of the twentieth century arena sportscape, 1891-1912; "Winter sports under a summer sun": the marketing of Sun Valley ski resort in the 1930s; Selling punches: free markets and professional wrestling in the UK, 1986-1993; A preview of the Mark H. …”
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The Resurrection of Jake the Snake.
Published 2015Streaming video (Wentworth users only)
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Adrian Street Story: You May Be Pretty, But I Am Beautiful.
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Straight from the Hart / Bruce Hart.
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You Cannot Kill David Arquette.
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