10 Wrestling Book Must-Reads

Want to find someone who really is a wrestling encyclopedia? Look at guys like Jim Cornette, Jim Ross, Bruce Prichard. Those guys were not only fans of the business before they got into it, but they also made their living from the squared circle and remain relevant, interested, and engaged with the way professional wrestling works. Compared to those guys? I don’t know a damned thing. A lot of what I do know comes from years of watching old territory wrestling. I was lucky enough to grow up on Southeastern/Continental and caught Georgia, Florida, World Class, and Mid-South thanks to an old satellite system back in the mid-1980s, so my grounding in the Southern wrestling tradition is pretty strong.