![]() ![]() The "sport" seems to have been rife with homophobia, racism, and the kind of embittered pride you associate with those left-behind regions of the country that voted for Brexit. This book lets the wrestlers and managers speak for themselves, and it's telling that in the afterword the author mentions that he's persona non grata with them for having criticized a now-dead colleague - because, of course, it was their own accounts that painted that unflattering portrait. ![]() Not the glitzy theatresports of WWF with athletic, gym-toned actors and polished fight narratives, but a seedy end-of-pier version in which fat unlovely men in their fifties grunted and slapped their way through shabby mock-battles. ![]() Readers outside the UK, and those below a certain age, may not be aware of the kind of wrestling that was on British TV in the 1960s and '70s. ![]()
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