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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Bert Randolph Sugar
Introduction
The Way It Was
Chapter 1 Sam Muchnick to Vince Mcmahon How Wrestling Got a Hold on My Uncle and the Nation
Chapter 2 Born-Again Bashing With the Von Erichs A Cute Concept Decays into a Macabre Body Count
Chapter 3 The (Thwak!) Deregulation of (Thump!) Pro Wrestling The Bureaucrats Behind Hulk Hogan
How They Did It: Barter Syndication
Let’s Make a Deal
The Way It Became
Chapter 4 Sex and the Gritty And You Thought Vince Was Joking When He Said He Wanted His Kids to Follow Him in the Family Business
Chapter 5 The Smart and the Dumb In Which We Raise the Question, Is Anyone Not a Mark?
Chapter 6 Pimping Iron McMahon Fought the Muscleheads, and the Muscleheads Won
It’s a Wwe World, the Rest of Us Are Just Living In It
Chapter 7 Hogan’s Zeroes Hulkster Vitamins Come in Two Forms — Orals and Injectables
Is Pro Wrestling Down for the Count?
Chapter 8 Scandal Snapshots A Dressing Room Raid by Federal Narcs —Plus Other Stuff They Don’t Tell You About on SmackDown and Raw
Chapter 9 Superfly Snuka & the Groupie The “Wrestling Renaissance” Wasn’t About To Be Derailed by the Revelation That One of its Superstars Battered Women — One of Them to Her Death
Chapter 10 Vince Mcmahon, the New Bob Hope Entertaining the Troops Abroad — Clamping a Sleeperhold on the Troops at Home
Appendix: Death Match, 1985-2006
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Photo Credits
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