Is it sport or is it entertainment? As presented by World Wrestling
Entertainment, Inc., the most well-known promoter of professional
wrestling, it is hard for the uninitiated to tell. A refuge for the
very athletic, and often a breeding ground for the highly
dysfunctional, professional wrestling is, in the truest sense, life
on the fringes. Headlocks and Dropkicks: A Butt-Kicking Ride
through the World of Professional Wrestling chronicles sportswriter
Ted A. Kluck's effort to become a professional wrestler at a
popular wrestling school in the suburbs of Chicago. In training to
become a wrestler, Kluck was able to delve into the
traveling-circus elements of the sport and talk to the people who
make it work-promoters, bookers, and the wrestlers themselves.
Wrestling has weathered manifold changes in American taste to
survive and thrive as it does today. Kluck examines the tension
between the good vs. evil tales that permeated wrestling in the
early to mid 1980s, along with the seamy soap opera storylines that
seem to drive it today. He also takes time to catch up with the
biggest stars the sport has produced-some of whom have parlayed
their fame into financial security and others who are currently
looking to reclaim their past glory. 15 illustrations
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