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The most controversial wrestling book EVER!
WHAT'S NEW
The most controversial wrestling book EVER!
You have read all of the other watered down, law suit-fearing, reputation-protecting professional wrestling books. Now prepare for the grittiest, most fearless, most fascinating and most disturbingly honest look deep inside the crazy world of pro wrestling that has ever been put down on paper!
J.R. BENSON EXTREMELY STRANGE is much more then just the auto biographical account of the adventures of a wacky independent level hardcore wrestler. For the first time ever, this book takes you right to the heart of the seamy underbelly of professional wrestling, on all levels. The point where other wrestling books feared to go is only the beginning of where this shocking book dares to take you.
The most open and honest drug stories ever available - not just about the author's considerable drug excesses, but also about many of the biggest names in the wrestling business. Drug stories ranging from humorous to frightening including such names as Sabu, Road Warrior Hawk, New Jack, Sandman and numerous others.
Though never making it past the indy level (which is the actual point of the book) J.R. Benson encountered, partied, traveled and worked with a veritable who's who of the wrestling business. Entertaining behind the scenes stories involving an array of legendary wrestling personalities from multiple eras including Dick Murdoch, Terry Funk, Scott Hall, Chris Jericho, Jim Cornette, Tom Prichard, Chris Candido, Tammy Sytch, Sabu, Rob Black, Lizzy Borden, Messiah, Vic Grimes, New Jack, Sandman, Raven, Ian Rotten, John Kronus, Spike Dudley, Crash Holly, Bob Orton Jr., Dick Slater, Debra McMichael, Road Warrior Hawk, Cowboy Lang, Tracey Smothers, Jimmy Del Ray, Public Enemy, Kevin Sullivan, Supreme, Pogo The Clown, ICP, Mike Modest, Dick Slater, Playboy Buddy Rose, Al Snow and numerous others.
Go deep into the psyche of fearless hardcore performers as they plan, execute and then suffer the repercussions of extreme violence that no human being should ever endure. Your in the dressing room mapping out the violence, your in the ring struggling to survive the carnage and your also experiencing the aftermath and it's suffering, facing the decision between the debt of medical care or the risks of self medicating with drugs. What hurt and what didn't hurt? What even crazier ideas didn't happen, and why? What went wrong? How severe are the injuries? Who is the craziest of the crazy? If your a fan of hardcore wrestling on any level, this is the most in depth look into the matches and mindset of the performers that you will find. You are literally there with the performers from start to finish, and while exciting, it is rarely a pretty experience.
Not just merely a reckless performer on the fringes of the wrestling business, but also a life long fan and utterly obsessive historian of professional wrestling, J.R. Benson factually addresses and then opinionatedly vents on all of the major happenings in the pro wrestling world, during each and every year of his own life that he recounts. It is a veritable history of the pro wrestling industry over the last thirty five years as he writes about the old school territories of the 1970's, the glitz of the big national promotions of the 1980's, the origins of all of the new styles of pro wrestling in the 1990's and how they affected the business, the proliferation of hardcore and what it should have been and what it ended up being, the late 1990's popularity boom period and promotional wars, honest and hard hitting analysis of all the movers and shakers of that era from McMahon & Bischoff to Heyman & Russo, the aftermath of the 90's and the death of so many wrestling promotions and wrestlers themselves. Despite years of heavy drug abuse and devastating blunt object blows to his skull, J.R. Benson manages to convey a vast array of historical wrestling knowledge with prophetic opinions and analysis that makes for fascinating and education reading.
Road stories with the likes of Dick Murdoch and Jim Cornette. Nuff said! Inside the psyche of Vicious Vic Grimes from his arrival at wrestling school through his most psychotic and death deafying stunts. Nuff said! A first hand analysis of the relationship dynamics between Rob Black & Lizzy Borden and the Messiah, immediately before and directly after their infamous fallout. Nuff said!
Get a very informative first hand look at how famous, and not-so famous, wrestling promoters ran their promotions. The thoroughly educational and highly entertaining insights of watching Jim Cornette run Smokey Mountain Wrestling. The madness of Rob Black running XPW, and the unsung hero that kept XPW shows together under less then ideal circumstances that was Kevin Kleinrock. Interesting, wacky and downright ridiculous stories of some of the more infamous low level indy promoters from Roland Alexander to Johnny Legend to J.R. Benson himself, and the outlandish things that these eccentric characters perpetrated.
Aside from first hand stories and analysis of so many legendary wrestling names, J.R. Benson tells the story of his very unlikely and controversial career in professional wrestling. From using backyard wrestling to get himself noticed and booked on indy shows, to training in actual wrestling school. From his early career traveling around the nation trying to make it as a heel manager to his later reinvention as a psychotic and massocistic hardcore wrestler. His controversial role as wrestling promoter are detailed, from the surprising early success of his perverted and politically incorrect porno show Incredibly Strange Wrestling to his years of desperate and insane antics trying to relive that success with Extremely Strange Wrestling. From his early days working in Smokey Mountain Wrestling with legendary veterans that he was in awe of, to his stormy decade long on-and-off run in APW, to his last hurrah in the wrestling business working for XPW, J.R. Benson covers everything and everyone in extreme detail. No book has ever delved this deeply into the core of indy level wrestling.
The rest of J.R. Benson's life story is as controversial as his wrestling career. Tales of his legit felonious criminalism. Like to read about strippers? Go inside of the seediest strip and S&M club's in San Francisco. This book has it all...and it is EXTREMELY STRANGE!
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