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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Wrestling
Bestselling author and six-time WWE champion Chris Jericho shares
twenty of his most valuable lessons for achieving your goals and
living the life you want, jam-packed with fantastic stories and the
classic off-the-wall, laugh-out-loud Jericho references he's famous
for. The result is a fun, entertaining, practical and inspiring
book from the man with many scarves but only one drive: to be the
best. After reading No Is a Four-Letter Word, you'll discover that
you might have what it takes to succeed as well ... you just need
to get out there and do it. That's what Jericho would do.
Professional wrestling is a strange beast, full of
contradictions-it's part live soap opera, part hyper-masculine
violent spectacle. It's an indelibly American pastime enjoyed by
millions and leads a select group of wrestlers to international
fame. It's also a sport that leaves many of its athletes broken and
battered, at serious risk of addiction, poverty, and early death.
Body Drop looks deeply at the nuances of professional wrestling and
its strange place within American culture from the perspective of
fandom. Brian Oliu offers deeply personal meditations on such
topics as disability, chronic pain, body image, masculinity, class,
and more, all through the lens of American professional wrestling.
Wrestling is a sport that is gleefully fake, but the people who
love it are very real. In holding up this particular part of
American culture to scrutiny, Oliu acknowledges that wrestling,
like our world, is one that has been crafted, but by showing
readers the scaffolding that holds everything up, he invites us to
figure out what holds our own realities upright.
Professional wrestling is a strange beast, full of
contradictions-it's part live soap opera, part hyper-masculine
violent spectacle. It's an indelibly American pastime enjoyed by
millions and leads a select group of wrestlers to international
fame. It's also a sport that leaves many of its athletes broken and
battered, at serious risk of addiction, poverty, and early death.
Body Drop looks deeply at the nuances of professional wrestling and
its strange place within American culture from the perspective of
fandom. Brian Oliu offers deeply personal meditations on such
topics as disability, chronic pain, body image, masculinity, class,
and more, all through the lens of American professional wrestling.
Wrestling is a sport that is gleefully fake, but the people who
love it are very real. In holding up this particular part of
American culture to scrutiny, Oliu acknowledges that wrestling,
like our world, is one that has been crafted, but by showing
readers the scaffolding that holds everything up, he invites us to
figure out what holds our own realities upright.
"The fighter's life is not an easy one. No one knows that more than
Michael Bisping. But few have done it better." --Thomas Gerbasi,
UFC.com Britain's own Rocky Balboa, Michael Bisping tells the
incredible story of how he went from rough and humble beginnings
and then on to a legendary career capped by winning the
Middleweight Championship. "If I quit the first time I tasted
defeat, I wouldn't be here now," Bisping once said. The ultimate
UFC underdog, Bisping fought his way to Number One contender status
three times, only to be knocked back. But he refused to give in,
clawing his way to his first World Title shot at the age of
37--when he finally became champion in one of the greatest upsets
in UFC history. Loaded with the humor and brutal honesty that first
won him a following and made him one of the sport's biggest stars,
Bisping recounts his record setting 13-year fight career battling
the likes of Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, and Dan Henderson.
"The Count" tells his story in a way that only he knows how. "[An]
unprecedented look at one of the most incredible--and most
entertaining--careers the UFC has ever seen." --John Morgan, lead
staff reporter for MMA Junkie, host of The MMA Road Show
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