Keith Elliot Greenberg needs no introduction and yet I seem to be embarking on one. This is a man who has written so regularly and eloquently on wrestling for WWF Magazine, The Village Voice, Maxim and many others. He’s an...
In Lock Up: Professional Wrestling in Our World, author Ray Lopez offers his take on the world of professional wrestling and vice versa. Lock Up was published in early December by Mascot Books, a ‘hybrid’ publisher —...
Professional wrestling hasn’t gotten all that much attention from the academic community. While many schools offer athletic programs that include amateur wrestling or arts programs that include dramatic theatre, there has yet to...
Despite being a business cloaked in layers of secrecy so thick that comparisons to underground crime syndicates are commonplace, memoirs from former wrestlers or one-time actual and would-be power players are almost pervasive....
A young Welshman, Johnny “The Kid” Arnold, seeks an escape from a life in the coal mines and sees wrestling as his way out in this immersive noir set in early 1960s London. With the help of “Flash” Nicky...
The death of our SlamWrestling.net colleague Jamie Melissa Hemmings is more than a fitting reason to dust off the ol’ Slam Speaks format. What quickly became evident is that, in her 43 years, she impacted a lot of lives,...
She was only 43, and we were friends for 20 of those. I only just learned the truly gutting news that Jamie Hemmings, nee Kreiser, has died. The news was shared by her brother, Justin: Some horrible unexpected news today…....
One of the perks of writing for SlamWrestling.net is that I sometimes get to review books about one of my favorite subjects—wrestling. I was excited by the prospect of reviewing Barry Horowitz’s autobiography, Wrestling Is...
Let’s call it a tease … somehow that feels appropriate. Jeanne Basone, who was Hollywood on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling TV show, has just released a memoir, Hooray For Hollywood!: The True Story Of The Original...
As Japanese women’s wrestling or “joshi” grows and becomes a bigger part of mainstream pro wrestling, some audiences members will become curious as to where these big names — Kairi Sane, Io Sky, Meiko Satomura, to name but...
Evan Ginzburg, a seasoned professional with over 30 years in film, radio, and TV, is the Senior Editor for Pro Wrestling Stories. As an Associate Producer for the Oscar-nominated movie The Wrestler and the acclaimed documentary...
Curtis Iaukea was one of the most legendary professional wrestlers produced by the state of Hawaii. Athletic, eloquent, erudite and possessing a forehead like a World War I battlefield, whether wrestling as Prince Kuhio, Prince...
I recently got the chance to talk to author Erin Silver about her book In It To Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis. It’s written for middle-grade readers, roughly ages 9-12, but I took away all kinds of information...
The Ring To The Reel: The Pat Rose Story is a quick read, at just under 100 pages not including photographs. It reads like a journeyman’s journal, spelling out where, what, who, and sometimes how much. This can be of...
The book Life as an Art: Paint Your Picture with Your Passion, released in 2022, tells the story of a young boy from a poor family that lived in the Niagara region of Ontario. A boy who would grow up to have his dreams realized...
WWE star Karrion Kross announced that he has finished writing his book, and that it will be out in August 2025. It’s called Life Is Fighting and will be released by ECW Press, under his real name of Kevin Robert Kesar....
Despite writing about pro wrestling for more than 35 years now, there are still times where I go, Wow, I had no idea. That happened when, through a Newspapers.com search for something else wrestling-related, I came across a...
Jim Londos was a modern-day Jason. Lovers of Greek mythology recall that Jason was an unconventional hero, a young adult denied his rightful share of the kingship of Iolcos by his duplicitous half-uncle Pelias. When Jason...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Brian Ferguson’s book on Verne Gagne, VERNE: Inside & Outside the Ropes, has just been published. It is the first book for the long-time host of the Bumps & Thumps podcast. SlamWrestling.net is...
EDITOR’S NOTE: After more than 30 years publishing the Ring Around the Northwest newsletter, Mike Rodgers has written six wrestling books: Encyclopedia of Portland Wrestlers: From the House of Action; Ohhh Yeahhh: History...
