Episode 3: Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania

07/19/17 • 76 min

Awesome Truth: A Wrestling Book Club

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Best Seat in the House by Justin Roberts

Justin Roberts spent over a decade as the ring announcer for Raw, Smackdown, and ECW; now he's written a tell-all book that reveals what it's like to be a forgotten, mistreated WWE employee. But is his exposé a worthwhile piece of wrestling literature? On this episode of Awesome Truth, we discuss Best Seat in the House, the Roberts autobiography that lit up the dirtsheets, tore into Vince McMahon and Triple H, and helped make WWE bullying into national news.

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Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment

From the early 1980s on, every story about professional wrestling is a story about Vince McMahon. So what are the boys to do with a book that is, by its title, all about Vince? On this episode of Awesome Truth, we discuss Sex, Lies, and Headlocks, an attempt by Shaun Assael and Mike Mooneyham to tell both the story of Mr. McMahon and of pro wrestling in one swoop. They may not succeed entirely, but we get some great Vinnie McMahon highlights along the way, including how MTV's Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection began and how Vince assisted in the destruction of Jim Crockett Promotions. And, of course, a preview of the renowned Vince McMahon biopic...