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The Pro Wrestling Hall Of Fame: The Tag Teams
SKU: hall_of_fame_tag_team_book
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by Greg Oliver
Paperback: 300 pages
About the Author
Greg Oliver has been covering professional wrestling for two decades through the SLAM! Wrestling web site, the Canadian Wrestling Report newsletter, and other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Canadians. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Steven Johnson is an author whose work on politics, business, and sports has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Description:
Put four pro wrestlers in a ring and the opportunity for athleticism, mischief, and pure entertainment is more than doubled. This comprehensive look at one of the most fascinating aspects of the sport of wrestling is an entertaining journey through the world of tag teams, exploring their essential role in wrestling promotions both large and small. With detailed historical and insider information based on hundreds of extensive interviews with well-known wrestlers, promoters, and managers, even casual fans will be anxious to see where their favorite twosome stacks up on the list of top tag teams of all time.
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ReviewsAverage Customer Rating: Based on 3 reviews. Write a reviewRating: - Recommended without hesitation
Reviewer: Rich from Douglasville, Georgia
Incredible, but not unexpectedly. Oliver’s first effort on Canadians was superb, and his teaming with Johnson to put out a book on teams surpasses most other books. Almost any team together for any length of time gets a profile, and most who are still alive are quoted within. The only thing you won’t like is if they determined your favorite team didn’t rank high enough in their personal poll of the Top 25, but as far as I was concerned, it didn’t differ much from my own personal list. Recommended without hesitation.
GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.comRating: - Extremely Thorough!
Reviewer: Ken from Dillon, South Carolina
Finally, there is a book in print that actually acknowledges tag teams in the Mid-Atlantic area whom I saw as a kid. One almost wonders - until this book - if anyone remembers George Becker and Johnny Weaver, The Flying Scotts - George and Sandy, Rip Hawk and Swede Hansen, Aldo Bogni and Broncho Lubich along with General Homer O'Dell, The Infernos and manager J.C. Dykes. Granted, virtually all the tag teams that one would expect are in this must-have treatise. Now, if someone could just put out a DVD with these stars on it...Rating: - Fantastic History of Tag Teams!
Reviewer: digital25 from Bowie, Maryland
This is a fantastic history of a now-overlooked portion of professional wrestling. The authors do an outstanding job of giving the history of tag teams. Very few are not mentioned in this book. If you are a fan of the tag team scene, this is a must have book. The only minor squabbles I have are that in the family section, they forgot about Los Hermanos Guerreros (Chavo Sr., Hector and Mando.) Also, I thought the top 20 should have been at the end of the book as something to close the book on. But these thoughts are minor. This is a truly outstanding book!! |
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