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Continuing from the first volume, this is the story about four girls who battle for survival in the ring of women's wrestling, only for them to discover that surviving their battles with each other outside the ring is a completely different matter.
The Golden Age of wrestling, the 80's saw the rise of modern styled professional wrestling. In this the third sourcebook for The Squared Circle Wrestling RPG we take a look at this pivotal moment in wrestling history. Global Assault Wrestling is the company that rose to prominence in the 80's and is one of the biggest wrestling promotions today. Introducing the Wrestleverse and presenting all new rules such as Wrestler Physique, Gimmicks, Jobbers and tag team wrestling.
The second Sourcebook for The Squared Circle Wrestling RPG visits Japan and details the wrestling style found there. This book also brings a more extreme and ultra-violent version of Hardcore wrestling, adding new weapons, rules and Deathmatches. Introduces new classes and skills as well as new game mechanics. This mega-sourcebook also adds the biggest amount of moves to the game since the original Core Book. A must have for every fan of The Squared Circle whether you plan to run a game in the Japan setting or not. New features include; 6 New Classes, 11 New Skills, New hardcore weapons and Deathmatches, Combat Areas: Fight it out backstage or take it to the parking garage, Targeted Submission and Damage system; now you can target a specific body part of your opponent, Introducing Status Effect rules, Expands Character Levels to 15, Introducing Multi-Classing rules and so much more!
This is the story about four girls who battle for survival in the ring of women's wrestling, only for them to discover that surviving their battles with each other outside the ring is a completely different matter.
The first sourcebook for The Squared Circle Wrestling RPG takes us to Mexico for the world of Lucha Libre. Luchadors are considered real life superheroes, don a mask and become one of these legendary warriors of the ring...fight evil and uphold the Luchador Code. Features two new Classes, 7 New Skills, Expanded rules for Managers, New Moves including quick pinning maneuvers and so much more! *Requires The Squared Circle:Wrestling RPG to play*
"The Fighting Scots of Edinboro" is a behind-the-scenes look at how a small Division II university in northwestern Pennsylvania broke into the world of Division I wrestling and has managed to thrive.
Create a wrestler and lead them to the very pinnacle of the wrestling industry, winning titles and engaging in feuds along the way...will you become a legend? Or maybe running a wrestling promotion is more your style, create and run your own promotion and face off against your friends to see who has the skill to make it and who doesn't. Features: - Over 200 fully detailed moves to choose from - 38 Match types to choose from - Over 50 NPC wrestlers to use in your games - Create your own wrestling storylines! - Managers and Valets - Two gameplay types; Wrestler Career and Promotion Manager - Play alone or with friends
He travelled the world applying his trade, he travelled to far off places as Hawaii, Japan, Korea, and India he entertained Millions of people all over the world with his wrestling. His name is Johnny Kincaid, now he has written his own Amazing life story. He writes about his child hood, born and brought up in Battersea "Not Barbados," how he spent half his child hood in a children's home. How he was in trouble with the police in his teens and spent time in a detention centre. He joined a fair ground and travelled with them after leaving his first wife of six months. Johnny learnt his trade as a wrestler whilst he was boxing in a fair ground boxing booth. He became a lady's man on entering the paid ranks of professional wrestling and becoming, European Champion 1981 1986. Enjoy this exciting journey with a ring side seat through the career of Johnny Kincaid you will laugh out loud as his family and friends do when he tells these stories and many more.
With his collection of more than 120 portraits, Venville intimately observes the complexity of the Luchadore by capturing both the human element and stage persona of each wrestler, through direct uncluttered photography.
Jeff Gorman grew up dreaming of a career as a sportscaster, but he never imagined that he would land in the pro wrestling ring. Join Jeff on a bizarre trip through the minor leagues of wrestling and follow his rise up the ladder. Learn about the inner workings of a business filled with bikers and bullies, heroes and hillbillies. It's more real than you would think. Find out what it was like to be a part of the early days of Ring of Honor, one of the hottest promotions in wrestling. Discover what happens when you chase one dream and find another. You've heard the wrestlers talk on TV, now find out what it's like on "THIS SIDE OF THE MIC."
One of the most inspiring stories in wrestling history, "Cheating
Death, Stealing Life" sees Eddie Guerrero recount his saga in
remarkably candid fashion, chronicling a life of heartbreaks and
painful personal struggles in frank, graphic detail.
John Lister is one of Britain's most respected wrestling journalists. Mixing travelogue, humour, fiction, history and opinion, this collection brings together the best of his work from the past fourteen years. The first section of this book features three epic accounts of voyages to see wrestling in the United States, from the ECW Arena to the Dallas Sportatorium by way of WWF pay-per-views and Memphis television. The second section comprises more than 40 articles, some previously unpublished, including histories of British and American wrestling, the statistics behind WCW's collapse, and a disgraceful allegation about Tommy Rich. Note: This is a revised 2nd edition, with a new cover design, new page design, lower page count and a lower retail price. However, the content of the book is unchanged from the first edition.
This inspirational book is Pat Roach's final goodbye to the world, before his tragic death. The 'Gentle Giant' battled with cancer for six-and-a-half years, before it eventually claimed him, in the small hours of Saturday 17 July, 2004. His confidante and biographer, Shirley Thompson, has combined Pat's final experiences and thoughts, with over seventy tributes from close family and friends, to produce a fascinating book. Pat's widow, Doreen, step-brother Pete Meakin, and a host of celebrities, including Kevin Whately, Chris Fairbank, Julia Tobin, Noel Clarke, Jimmy Nail and Timothy Spall, all feature prominently. Tim Healy, who was a particularly close friend, has written an entire chapter, scriptwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais provide an insightful Foreword. Pat's wish that this last book should convey a message of hope to fellow cancer patients, whilst also providing a measure of funding for the Cancer BACUP charity, will be realised, as the book is launched. His courage, combined with the warmth and affection that he frequently inspired in others, shines throughout. But be prepared for a few unexpected surprises, including a chapter that could only be published posthumously! Two galleries, containing over a hundred unique photographs, provide the crowning glory to this truly memorable book...the third and final biography in the "Pat Roach Trilogy."
At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawaii for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. Five years later, against the backdrop of rising U.S.-Japan economic tension, Rowan became the first gaijin (non-Japanese) to advance to sumo's top rank, yokozuna. His historic promotion was more a cultural accomplishment than an athletic one, since yokozuna are expected to embody highly prized Japanese values such as hard work, patience, strength, and hinkaku, a special kind of dignity thought to be available only to Japanese. Perhaps the defining moment of the gaijin's unique success occurred at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, when Rowan, chosen to personify ""Japanese"" to one of the largest television audiences in history, performed a sacred sumo ritual at the opening ceremony. ""Gaijin Yokozuna"" chronicles the events leading to that improbable scene at Nagano and beyond, tracing Rowan's life from his Hawaii upbringing to his 2001 retirement ceremony. Along the way it briefly examines the careers of two Hawaii-born sumotori who paved the way for Rowan, Jesse Kuhaulua (Takamiyama) and Salevaa Atisanoe (Konishiki). The author shares stories from family members, coaches, friends, fellow sumo competitors, and of course Rowan himself, whom he accompanied on three Japan-wide exhibition tours. The work is further informed by volumes of secondary source material on sumo, Japanese culture, and local Hawaii culture.
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Wrestling contains over 80 descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by wrestlers worldwide. The wrestling-specific weight training programs in this book can be used all year and are guaranteed to increase your quickness, build power, and prevent injuries common to wrestlers.
"Adam Copeland on Edge" is what the author describes as "a mental
picture." It's also a dream -- "one of many" -- that he decided to
realize while at home convalescing from potential career-ending
neck surgery. And it's a journey that explores not only his life
but also his innermost thoughts.
"Wrestling to Rasslin'" traces the roots of one of man's oldest competitive sports. Beginning in sporting bars in the late 1800s and graduating to Barnum sideshow tents, wrestling has thrilled the world over with such early athletes as William Muldoon, George Hackenschmidt, and Tom Jenkins. After World War II and the advent of television, wrestling took a turn toward the dramatic, emphasizing conflicts between good and evil.
A competition of strength, endurance, and strategy, wrestling is one of the world's oldest sports, boasting such famous participants as Plato, Henry VIII, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. The author provides a compelling look at the different styles and maneuvers of wrestling. Vibrant photos and informative writing bring this sport to life for the reader.
This meticulously crafted and searing critique of pro wrestling is unlike any wrestling book published: Chokehold is a penetrating description of pro wrestling's dark side, a secret underworld of deception, exploitation and greed. The storyteller is "Big Jim" Wilson, All-American football player and survivor of seven years in the NFL, who was promised wealth and the world championship as pro wrestler. Instead, Jim Wilson found a surprisingly lucrative sports entertainment industry built on a pyramid of secrets that included abusive control of its performers and a long history of illegal business practices and corruption of politicians and state athletic commissions. Chokehold describes and documents the abuses that Jim Wilson witnessed and endured - blacklisting, strong-arm tactics, homosexual blackmail, defiance of the U.S. Justice Department and bribery of TV executives and arena managers. Chokehold is an explosive indictment of the pro wrestling industry's business practices as well as a thoughtful proposal for pro wrestling's reform. This book is not a conventional expos' of pro wrestling's orchestrated stunts, gimmicks and blade jobs. Instead, it is an unprecedented examination of pro wrestling's less visible cons outside the ring -- its hidden manipulation of wrestlers with broken promises and broken bones and a backstage power of the pencil that writes scripts for wrestler stardom or extinction. Chokehold describes a secret slice of the wrestling life where traveling troupes of heels and babyfaces understand how they got into the game, but cannot find a way up or out. This is the story of why and how the big guys almost always lose. Chokehold is part autobiography and part pro wrestling history. Written in wrestlespeak (the industry's insider argot), it is dedicated to the memory of "the older boys whose broken bodies and shattered lives should have taught us something." In addition to Jim Wilson's experiences in The Bus
Spanning the "Roaring Twenties," Prohibition and The Great Depression, Pile Driver is set in one of the most colorful periods of United States history. The story of Charles Berthold Fischer reveals hardship, humility and honor. Wrestling honestly in a dishonest era, Fischer, standing but 5'3," simultaneously held middleweight and light heavyweight world titles. Despite national sports figure status, Charlie was never ashamed to declare Butternut, Wisconsin, as his home. A man to whom many taller men looked up, Pile Driver is the untold story of an exceptional individual: Charles "Midget" Fischer. |
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