By Howard T Brody, James E Cornette
Exposing wrestling’s internal workings and back-office deal making, this memoir is a hard-hitting firsthand examine the game from Howard Brody, one among its so much arguable promoters. starting with how he grew to become concerned with specialist wrestling and produced his first tv software, it then makes a speciality of his time as president of the nationwide Wrestling Alliance and divulges the reality in the back of the rumors surrounding his departure from the association. Brody’s relationships with lots of wrestling’s strongest and inventive figures—Vince and Linda McMahon, Eric Bischoff, Paul Heyman, Tod Gordon, Antonio Inoki, Hiro Matsuda, the Funks, Dusty Rhodes, Jim Cornette, and Hulk Hogan—are mentioned intimately, revealing many little-known information about the behind-the-scenes negotiations curious about reserving and selling exhibits. From facing construction and ability managers to operating with radio and tv stations, Brody explains the nuances of reserving promotions, discusses the character of negotiating and promoting wrestling to tv networks and sponsors, and reveals interesting information about many elements of operating within the wrestling business.
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In retrospect it would have been like taking the best elements of Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s annual Wrestling Almanac and Book of Facts, Gary Will and Royal Duncan’s Wrestling Title Histories, Tim Hornbaker’s National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling, Dave Meltzer’s annual Wrestling Observer newsletter’s “Year in Review” issues plus his Tributes: Remembering Some of the World’s Greatest Wrestlers and Tributes II: Remembering More of the World’s Greatest Wrestlers and rolling them all together into one resource.
Before long I caught on with another local paper, the Jewish Journal. Being Jewish and proud of it, I initially thought it would be a nice change of pace to work with those of my own creed, especially after hearing anti-Semitic remarks from my previous newspaper employer. But after a few days I decided the work environment was simply too Jewish for my liking. I found many of my coworkers narrowminded and it bothered me to hear some of them tossing around politically incorrect Yiddish slang as though it held no weight.
For someone who must have been under tremendous pressure, Vince seemed fairly happy-go-lucky. He stopped at the receptionist’s desk, dropped off and picked up some papers, made some small talk with his employee, looked in my direction and said, “Hello,” to which I responded with a “Hello” of my own, and then he headed right back down the hall from which he had come, continuing with his whimsical vocals. A few minutes later Linda came out and introduced herself. After the formalities, she led me to her office.