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Under the Black Hat - My Life in the WWE and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Under the Black Hat - My Life in the WWE and Beyond (Hardcover)
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From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross comes a candid,
colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the
personal crises he weathered at the height of his career. If you've
caught a televised wrestling match anytime in the past THIRTY
years, you've probably heard Jim Ross's throaty Oklahoma twang. The
beloved longtime announcer of WWE is already an icon to generations
of wrestling fans, and he's not slowing down, having just signed on
as the announcer of the starry new wrestling venture All Elite
Wrestling. In this follow-up to his bestselling memoir
Slobberknocker, he dishes about not only his long career, which
includes nurturing global stars like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The
Rock, and John Cena, but also about the challenges of aging and
disability, his split from collaborator Vince McMahon, and the
sudden death of his beloved wife, Jan. The result is a gruff,
endearing, and remarkably human-scale portrait, set against the
larger-than-life backdrop of professional wrestling. Ross's ascent
in WWE mirrors the rise of professional wrestling itself from a DIY
sideshow to a billion-dollar business. Under the Black Hat traces
all the highs and lows of that wild ride, in which Jim served not
only as on-air commentator, but talent manager, payroll master, and
even occasional in-ring foil to threats like Paul "Triple H"
Levesque and Undertaker. While his role brought him riches and
exposure Jim never dreamed of growing up in a small town in
Oklahoma, he chafed against the strictures of a fickle corporate
culture and what he saw as a narrow vision of what makes great
wrestlers-and great story lines. When suddenly stricken with Bell's
palsy, a form of facial paralysis that makes it impossible to
smile, he stared down his greatest fear-being cast out of the
announcing booth for good. Picking up where Slobberknocker left off
and ending on the cusp of a new career in a reimagined industry,
Under the Black Hat is the triumphant tale of a country boy who
made it to the top, took a few knocks, and stuck around-just where
his fans like him.
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