— REVIEWS —

"There are a lot of good wrestling books out there. This is top of the line. The portrayal of Vince McMahon is better than in any book I've read. I highly recommend this book."
– Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer Live

"I've known J.J. Dillon for a number of years, however it was usually an office/talent relationship. Once I started reading his book, I couldn't put it down until I finished. I have a new respect for J.J., knowing that we started in the business the same way, as kids with a dream."
– Percy Pringle III, a.k.a. Paul Bearer
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"I've never read anything that even came close to describing how the business worked in those wonderful days of what are now, alas, yore — which is the added delight of the tome that J.J., Scott, and Philip have constructed."
– J Michael Kenyon

"Along with The Dynamite Kid's "Pure Dynamite," Lou Thesz's autobiography, and yes, Mick Foley's "Have a Nice Day," J.J. Dillon's "Wrestlers Are Like Seagulls: From McMahon to McMahon" stands proud at the top of the pile."
– Dan Lovranski, Live Audio Wrestling

"Seagulls is highly informative about how the wrestling business works, tells of many humorous hijinks that occurred on the road, and delves into the darker side of the business. It is perhaps the best written book on the business that I have read."
–Harry Grover

RIC FLAIR
In the words of the "Nature Boy" himself in 1986, at the pinnacle of the successful reign of the Horsemen.
"We take a lot of pride in being first class. We pay a lot of respect to J.J. Dillon, our leader ..."

TULLY BLANCHARD
"James was the crucial component that made us complete."

OLE ANDERSON
"Dillon made the Four Horsemen."

ARN ANDERSON
"J.J. Dillon is one of the classiest pros this business has ever known."

For more than 40 years, James J. Dillon has been involved in the world of professional wrestling. Now he speaks candidly on all aspects of both his career and his personal life.

This book has something for wrestling fans of all generations and ages:
• Being a wrestling fan in the 50's
• Breaking into the wrestling business as a referee during the 60's
• Wrestling in the territorial system of the 70's
• Taking leadership of the legendary Four Horsemen during the 80's
• Working with Vince McMahon in the WWF during the 90's
• Watching the monumental collapse of WCW in the 00's

J.J. Dillon offers a first-hand account and detailed history of one of the most influential wrestling promotions in wrestling history — the World Wrestling Federation. For 7½ years, JJ served in the WWF as Vince McMahon's top lieutenant, right-hand man, and Vice President. Never before has someone from McMahon's inner circle written a book with an insider's perspective of the company.

JJ also gives a insider's perspective on the ludicrous business decisions made by executives who took World Championship Wrestling down a path that led to the company's destruction and eventual demise.

From the highs of making big money, winning championship titles, rubbing elbows with top celebrities, and appearing on television every week — to the lows of filing for bankruptcy, extramarital affairs, divorces, and drug use — no stone is left unturned when J.J. Dillon tells his story.

In this book, there are truly "no holds barred."
JAMES J. DILLON
The Leader of the Four Horsemen
(from the pages of "Wrestlers Are Like Seagulls")

The Four Horsemen were formed spontaneously. It was not an idea that was planned in any great detail. At the time, Ric Flair was the World Heavyweight Champion. Tully Blanchard was the U.S. Champion. Ole and Arn were the National Tag Team Champions. We all walked out onto the studio set and did an interview, en masse. At the time, I only managed Tully, so I went out with him. There we were, all of the heels with all of the titles, and with all the bragging rights.

As I said, the Horsemen concept was something that happened, but if anyone should be given credit for the idea, it should be Arn Anderson. As we did the interview, Arn grabbed the microphone and told the audience that they were witnessing history. "Only once has so much damage been caused by so few," Arn shouted, "and to find that source, you need to go all the way back to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."

When Arn held up his four fingers, the fans picked up on it. From that day on, the fans gave us the four finger sign — the symbol of ...

When we were clear of the Coliseum, Sid [Vicious] began berating me, and in a very angry, almost insane tone of voice, he told me in great detail about what had taken place in the parking lot just a few short minutes before. "Sid, I?m sorry ?" I offered, but he cut me off in mid-sentence.
"Sorry! Sorry? Is that supposed to help? I hit a fu?ing baby because you were fu?ing standing the fu? around instead of getting in the fu?ing car!"
"But, Sid. I was talking to the RPMs because I haven?t seen them for a while, and ..."
At that point, Sid snapped, and in a combination of being insane with anger and not knowing just how inhumanly strong he was, he screamed, "Fu? the RPMs, and fu? you!" He grabbed me by the back of my head with his right hand, forced my head down between my knees, and held it there with all of his strength. I struggled to straighten up, but his brute force was inescapable. As my oxygen supply dwindled, my head felt as if it was going to explode, and I started to black out. Just before I passed out, Sid released his death grip on my neck and let me go.
Bruno?s book is phenomenal and I highly recommend it to everybody. You will learn a lot about the business of professional wrestling, and in the process, you will laugh your ass off.
? Kurt Angle

"Wrestling with the Truth" is the title of this book, but it doesn?t mean what you think it does. Bruno Lauer has no problem telling the truth. He believes in telling it like it is, and after spending 29 years as a manager in the business of professional wrestling, he has a lot of stories to tell.

Entertaining, visual, and vicious. A memorable memoir by a veteran performer who has seen and done it all in sports entertainment.
? Chris Jericho, New York Times best-selling author

The story of Bruno Lauer, known professionally as Downtown Bruno and Harvey Wippleman, relates the fascinating, and often hilarious, story of his life. Direct and opinionated, he doesn?t hold back anything, sharing both the good and the bad things that happened to him. Even his close friends aren?t safe from his scrutiny. Take it from Mick Foley, who read the first draft of the book and found himself on the receiving end of a few barbs thrown by Bruno: "Bruno's honesty can be, at times, a little painful."

A unique perspective from one of the most unique characters in the history of the wrestling business.
? Mick Foley, New York Times best-selling author

As he retraces every step of his career, Bruno?s account of his life as a "sports entertainment" performer begins at age 13, when he joins a traveling wrestling troupe at a carnival, and ends when he wins the WWF "Women?s" world championship wrestling title on prime-time national television.

This autobiography, complemented by 94 photos culled from Bruno?s personal scrapbooks, is a fresh glimpse of life behind the curtain of professional sports entertainment. As full of action, entertainment, heartbreak, and drama as anything that takes place inside a professional wrestling ring, Wrestling with the Truth is the story of a man who struggled to find his place in the wrestling business, and the success that came through his perseverance.

With a Foreword written by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
[excerpt] Bruno Lauer and I have shared an extraordinary friendship that has spanned more than 20 years. Throughout that time, the same words come to mind when I think of Bruno ? loyal, reliable, and as funny as hell!

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For decades, professional wrestling fans have asked the question – "Is that wrestling fake?"

However, they wouldn't have dared ask that question directly to Ivan Koloff, whose work in the ring made believers out of the most cynical viewers.

Growing up on a farm in Ontario, Ivan learned the meaning of hard work and discipline. Unfortunately, he made wrong choices and wound up in prison for cattle rustling. Upon his release, he enrolled in a wrestling school and began a career in pro wrestling as Red McNulty, the Irish Rogue.

Five years later, on January 18, 1971, he appeared in Madison Square Garden under the name Ivan Koloff and did what had never been done before. He pinned Bruno Sammartino's shoulders to the mat and won the WWWF heavyweight title. When the referee called for the bell, you could have heard a pin drop as the more than 21,000 screaming fans were instantly moved to a stunned, disbelieving silence.

That accomplishment made Ivan Koloff one of wrestling's biggest superstars until his retirement from the ring in the mid-1990s. Competing in virtually every major promotion throughout the world, he feuded with every top name in the wrestling business, including Andre the Giant, Ric Flair, Dick the Bruiser, Bob Backlund, Billy Robinson, Dusty Rhodes, and Ivan Putski.

Here for the first time, Ivan tells the story of his life: the highs and the lows; his admission of alcohol and drug abuse; reflections of a life spent on the road, and the toll it took on his body and soul; the event in Kannapolis, North Carolina, that changed his life forever.

Ivan also talks about:
• growing up on a farm in Canada
• going to prison for cattle rustling
• learning to wrestle at Jack Wentworth’s school in Hamilton, Ontario
• getting blood for the first time
• wrestling as Red McNulty, the (one-eyed) Irish Rogue
• wrestling Bruno Sammartino (Ivan’s hero) for the first time
• working as a Union steward at a steel company
• becoming a full-time professional wrestler
• working in preliminaries and doing job for two years
• working as a bouncer in Vancouver with Dale Hey (the future Buddy Roberts)
• going to Montreal as a main event wrestler
• Tony Angelo, his first manager
• how Lou Albano paved the way for his first run in New York
• dealing with Vince McMahon Sr. and what he thinks of him as a businessman
• his tour of Australia with Playboy Gary Hart and King Curtis
• who, how, and when he was approached about winning the WWWF title from Bruno Sammartino (and you won’t believe who the New York office sent to talk to him about it)
• how the New York wrestling office double-crossed Ivan after he won the title.
• his first tour of Japan
• working for Verne Gagne in the AWA
• teaming with Superstar Billy Graham
• wrestling a young Ric Flair
• getting into a fight with Buck Ramstead in Japan
• how wrestlers used alcohol and drugs to deal with their injuries and physical problems.
• the part steroids played in the careers of many of his peers.
• acting as referee for a fight in the dressing room between Don Jardine and Wahoo McDaniel
• being blackballed for wrestling for the International Wrestling Alliance
• attempting to promote wrestling in California with Superstar Billy Graham
• trying to find work with promoters who didn’t agree with the policies of National Wrestling Alliance promoters
• the promoters who thumbed their nose at the NWA and booked him
• his opinion of Ole Anderson as the booker for Georgia Championship Wrestling
• his time in the ring and on the road with Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer
• why he and Alexis Smirnoff were stopped and interviewed by the FBI
• his fight with the Iron Sheik on an airplane
• turning down what he thinks was a second opportunity to win the WWWF title
• the lifestyle of a professional wrestler and the price they pay
• being assaulted by fans with knives, bent nails, pieces of wood, chairs, and even a woman’s handbag
• Nikita Koloff’s introduction to the business
• why and how Nikita was turned babyface without Ivan knowing it was going to happen
• teaming with Krusher Kruschev (Barry Darsow)
• teaming and traveling with Dick Murdoch
• being forced out of Jim Crockett Promotions
• wrestling for Carlos Colon in Puerto Rico
• operating wrestling schools with Paul Jones and Bobby Fulton
• network marketing with Nikita
• his conversion experience and accepting Christ as his Savior and Lord
• his fight to beat his addictions to drugs and alcohol
• Erica Flair, the Nature Girl
• working for Children’s Miracle Network
• his life today and what he’s been doing since he quit full-time wrestling

Ivan tells stories about many of the personalities he worked with, including Bill Miller, Stu Hart, Mad Dog Vachon, Ernie Ladd, Andre the Giant, Johnny Rougeau, Jacques Rougeau, Bepo Mongol (the future Nicolai Volkoff), Bruno Sammartino, Pedro Morales, Gorilla Monsoon, Freddie Blassie, Bobby Heenan, Red Bastien, Bull Bullinski, Kevin von Erich, Kerry von Erich, Mr. Fuji, Johnny Valentine, Dick the Bruiser, Roddy Piper, Mr. Saito, Ray Stevens, Stan Hansen, and Abdullah the Butcher.

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This book is a nostalgic romp through wrestling?s magnificent past. ? Lanny "The Genius" Poffo

By his own admission, H.E. West was never what you might call a well-known name in professional wrestling. He never wrestled in Madison Square Garden, he never held a championship title, and the small amount of money he was paid seldom covered the expenses he incurred on the road. For all intents and purposes, wrestling was not much more than a hobby, but he was doing what he loved.

West's story is a captivating look at life on the road for a man whose only desire was to be a part of the world of professional wrestling, not matter how small or insignificant that part might be. He takes the reader along with him on his journey into the wrestling world, describing his time in the ring, wrestling in high-school gyms and armories before fewer than one hundred people, and on the road with his fellow wrestlers. West wrestled as Mean Duke West, The Creature, and his most high-profile character, the Canadian Rose. He talks about being cheated by promoters, and being paid as little as one dollar a match. The narrative is peppered with honesty and humor, and told with humility by a man who never makes himself out to be more than he was ? a wrestler whose sole purpose in the ring was to make other wrestlers look good.

His story comes to a close as, with the advent of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment, he watches the wrestling business change around him, and as the independent promotions go out of business, he finds himself standing on the outside of the wrestling business and looking in.

This is the story of a man who sacrificed and did what it took to achieve his childhood dream ? to be a "professional wrestler."

When Barnett told (Ric) Flair that (Rick) Rude was really angry, Flair didn’t want to go. He tried to talk his way out of it until Barnett just about pushed him into the dressing room. We were in the room next door and heard everything that was said. When the door shut behind him, we could hear Rick Rude cussing and calling Flair everything but a human being. "Don’t just sit there with your head down, you gutless mother fu—er! Get up out of that chair and do something about it, you yellow son-of-a-bitch!"

The abuse went on for several minutes, with Rude relentlessly screaming at Flair, telling him to stand up. Flair just sat on the chair with his head down. Of course, if Flair had done as Rude asked, Rude would have killed him.
Get behind the mask and into the head of one of professional wrestling's most famous masked men. This autobiography of Joe "Jody" Hamilton takes the reader behind the scenes for a personal glimpse behind the mask of one of pro wrestling’s hottest attractions:

The Assassin

When Joe Hamilton was just 19 years old, he and his brother, Larry, headlined a show at Madison Square Garden, drawing a record 20,335 people to see them wrestle Antonino Rocca and Miguel Perez. To this day, Joe remains the youngest wrestler to ever headline a main event in the Garden.

In 1961, Joe hooked up with veteran wrestler Tom Renesto to form a team called the Assassins, and for the next eleven years, they were considered to be one of wrestling’s hottest attractions, drawing sellout crowds to arenas in California, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, in addition to foreign countries like Japan and Australia.

Joe takes readers on a journey as he tells about life both in and out of the wrestling ring—being attacked, stabbed, and shot at by angry wrestling fans; wrestling under a mask and trying to keep his identity a secret; legitimate fights and confrontations behind the scenes in the dressing rooms; a war between two wrestling promotions in Atlanta, Georgia; and never-before-told stories about legends like Ric Flair, Andre the Giant, Giant Baba, Toyonobori, Pedro Morales, Bill Goldberg, Ray Gunkel, and their biggest rivals, the Kentuckians.

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First published in 1988, Drawing Heat was one of the first books to really give the public a glimpse behind the scenes of the world of professional wrestling. Jim Freedman, a Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario who also consults on international development for the United Nations, CIDA, and international NGOs, seems an unlikely candidate to write a book on such a subject, but he paints a captivating portrait of the sport.

Freedman’s primary goal was to chronicle the drama of the sport from the viewpoint of a wrestling fan, but in the process, got much more than he ever expected. During the course of interviewing several participants, he was invited to become a part of Big Bear Promotions, and the book become the story about the demise of a local wrestling promotion being swallowed up by multi-national business interests.

Welcomed into the inner circle by nearly everyone associated with the promotion, Jim presents an insiders look at what it took to promote a small, independent wrestling show ... putting the show together, setting up the ring, counting the money and balancing the books, ring announcing, dealing with sports commissioners who are in the pocket of the big wrestling companies, and what it is that lures wrestling fans into the arenas.

Filled with wonderful characters, the action in this book far outweighs anything seen in the ring today. Dave "The Wildman" McKigney, the main character, is the owner of the Big Bear company, and the struggles and tragedies he faces become the focus of the narrative. Known for traveling with his wrestling bears, one of the most heartbreaking stories in the entire book details the account of McKigney’s girlfriend when she is mauled to death by one of them.

In addition to the original text, this reprinting features two additions:

An interview with the author: Jim Freedman
Conducted in 2009, the interview takes readers behind the scenes of the writing of the book and brings them up to date with the events which followed the book’s publication in 1988.

The Final, Fateful Bearman Tour
Told by his fellow wrestlers, this is the story about the final days and tragic death of the Wildman and several others wrestlers in July 1988. The story includes interviews with several wrestlers who were in the territory at the time: Phil Watson (the son of Whipper Watson), Hartford Love, Willie "Wolfman" Farkuks, Rocky Della Serra, Ricky Johnson, Steve Ocean, and Sweet Daddy Siki.

You don’t have to know, or even care, about wrestling to enjoy this book. This is more than just a book about wrestling. It is a glimpse into a secret world unknown to most people ... a world filled with larger-than-life characters and captivating events.

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