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Throughout the new millennium, the number of women interested in
amateur wrestling has skyrocketed. Across the board, from grade
school to college, girls and women have been strapping on their
head guards and singlets to grapple with their dreams of success on
the mat. However, the sport and its participants have not always
had an easy time. This book documents the growth of female amateur
wrestling in America, and the difficulties and victories it has
faced, from facing removal from the 2013 Olympic Games, to missing
the 2020 Games altogether due to COVID-19. With exclusive details
and photographs, this work chronicles the bravery of the women who
have headed the sport and examines the wrestlers' performances in
the 2021 Olympic Games. It also features interviews with the female
wrestlers who continue to challenge an often-suppressive field,
hoping to eventually leave their mark on the American sports world.
You may have cheered for New Jack. You may have booed him out of
the building. You may have even feared him at times. But until now,
you've never really known The Most Dangerous Man in Wrestling. For
the first time, the man born Jerome Young opens up about how he
became one of the stars who enabled Extreme Championship Wrestling
to make a permanent mark on the professional landscape. His crazed
dives off balconies and scaffolds; his bloody, weapon-filled mat
wars that trampled the line between reality and entertainment-this
memoir reveals the perspective of the man at the center of them all
and includes new disclosures about the infamous incidents with Mass
Transit, Gypsy Joe, and the stabbing of a fellow wrestler in
Florida. Beyond the gimmicks that united white supremacists and the
NAACP against him and his fellow performers, New Jack candidly
discusses the violence in his youth that nearly led him to a career
in crime, his past as a bounty hunter, a near-fatal drug addiction,
the last months of ECW, and his place in wrestling history.
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