American Women In Amateur Wrestling 2000 2022

Author : Jason Norman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476684863
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book American Women in Amateur Wrestling, 2000-2022 written by Jason Norman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the new millennium, the number of women interested in amateur wrestling has skyrocketed. From grade school to college, girls and women have been strapping on their head guards and singlets to grapple with their dreams of success on the mat. However, the sport and its participants have not always had an easy time. This book documents the growth of female amateur wrestling in America, and the difficulties and victories it has faced, from removal from the 2013 Olympic Games, to missing the 2020 Games altogether due to Covid-19. The work chronicles the bravery of the women who have led the sport and sets out their performances in the 2021 Olympic Games. With 50 photographs, it also features interviews with the female wrestlers who continue to challenge an often-suppressed field, hoping eventually to leave their mark on the American sports world.

Author : Jason Norman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476649073
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book American Women in Amateur Wrestling, 2000-2022 written by Jason Norman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the new millennium, the number of women interested in amateur wrestling has skyrocketed. From grade school to college, girls and women have been strapping on their head guards and singlets to grapple with their dreams of success on the mat. However, the sport and its participants have not always had an easy time. This book documents the growth of female amateur wrestling in America, and the difficulties and victories it has faced, from removal from the 2013 Olympic Games, to missing the 2020 Games altogether due to Covid-19. The work chronicles the bravery of the women who have led the sport and sets out their performances in the 2021 Olympic Games. With 50 photographs, it also features interviews with the female wrestlers who continue to challenge an often-suppressed field, hoping eventually to leave their mark on the American sports world.

Author : Pat Laprade
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773050141
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sisterhood of the Squared Circle written by Pat Laprade and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting the rise of women’s wrestling from sideshow to WWE main event Sisterhood of the Squared Circle presents the fascinating history of women’s wrestling, from the carnival circuit of the late 1800s to today’s hugely popular matches. With more than 100 wrestler profiles, find out how backstage politics, real-life grudges, and incredible personalities shaped the business. The careers of many well-known trailblazers, including Mildred Burke, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young, Penny Banner, Wendi Richter, Trish Stratus, Chyna, and Lita, are celebrated alongside today’s stars, like Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Bayley. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} With rare photographs and an exploration of women’s wrestling worldwide — including chapters on Japan, Mexico, England, and Australia — Sisterhood of the Squared Circle is a priceless contribution to the history of professional wrestling. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}

Author : Mike Chapman
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Wrestling written by Mike Chapman and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time wrestling coaches, wrestlers, and fans have access to the annals of American amateur wrestling. This is the most detailed chronicle ever written on the people and places that have made wrestling, history.

Author : Steven Verrier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476687692
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book George Gordienko written by Steven Verrier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gordienko (1928-2002) may be the greatest wrestler you've never heard of. From humble, Ukrainian/Cossack immigrant roots in the Canadian Prairies, he endured a tough childhood during the Great Depression to emerge as a leading "shooter" and one-of-a-kind artist on the mat. Excluded from wrestling in the United States during the McCarthy era because of his association with the Communist Party as a young man, he was deprived of a run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, for which he was hand-picked by the great Lou Thesz. After retirement, Gordienko transitioned to a different sort of canvas and became a successful painter. This first full-length biography traces his remarkable career.

Author : Brian R. Solomon
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773058827
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Blood and Fire written by Brian R. Solomon and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of how The Sheik captured the imagination of a generation, conquered the wrestling business, and lost it all in a blaze of flame and glory He was the most vicious, bloodthirsty, reviled villain in the history of the ring. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, he drew record crowds everywhere he went and left a trail of burned and bloody opponents in his wake. He was The Sheik: the mysterious and terrifying madman from Syria whose wanton destruction and mayhem are the stuff of wrestling legend. But what those legions of fans screaming for his head never knew was that The Sheik was really Eddie Farhat. From Lansing, Michigan, and the son of Arab immigrants, Farhat served his country proudly in World War II and was fulfilling the American dream through hard work and tireless dedication to his craft. And when he wasn’t screaming unintelligibly and attacking his enemies with sharp objects, he was busy being the owner and operator of World Wide Sports, one of the most successful wrestling companies in North America. This is Blood and Fire: The Unbelievable Real-Life Story of Wrestling’s Original Sheik.

Author : Ken Dunlop
Publisher : Shawline Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781922444813
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Dazzler Dunlop written by Ken Dunlop and published by Shawline Publishing Group. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE OPENLY GAY IN THE HYPER-MACHO WORLD OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING? Just ask Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop, whose Australian professional wrestling career coincided with the AIDS crisis and when homosexuality was not only still taboo but also a criminal act. In the first ever autobiography by an Australian professional wrestler, the life and times of an out-and-proud wrestling legend and a member of the Australian professional Wrestling Hall of Fame are candidly laid out in this wonderful new memoir. Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop is a man who dedicated 24 years to the sport of professional wrestling. Despite his small stature, Ken proved his toughness and resilience by bodyslamming and clotheslining his way to a memorable 24-year Hall of Fame career in Australia and abroad with superstars the likes of Andre the Giant and Mario Milano. Always striving to be the best that he could be, no matter what...Every decision centred around his wrestling career and those who supported him...During his career he also taught many young men to wrestle and became a mentor in their lives as they excelled beyond even their own expectations. From his humble beginnings as a mummy's boy in rural Victoria to his crazy life as an out-and-proud gay man in Australia's Sin City, there were moments of triumph, laughter, mayhem, and plenty of tears. These are the no-holds-barred stories of a bona fide wrestling pioneer who did it all with passion, loyalty, and a no-nonsense honesty. This is the autobiography of Australian Wrestling Legend and Hall of Fame Inductee, Ken "Dazzler" Dunlop. "A true character and legend of the most entertaining and demanding sport in the world...Ken has dreamed it, lived and loved it with everything he is as a champion and as a person...this is a wonderfully honest and humbled sharing of his own story...Marvellous and inspiring..." Brian, Indiebook reviewer

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231069571
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Women's Sports written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject is rife with social and cultural implications which Guttmann explores as he traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present, including the evolution and the revolution in the 20th century and contemporary controversies.

Author : Steven Verrier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674833
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Gene Kiniski written by Steven Verrier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Kiniski (1928-2010) was internationally known to a generation of wrestling fans and to Canadians everywhere as "Canada's Greatest Athlete." Older fans and wrestling historians remember him best for his accomplishments in the ring, his run-'em-over approach to the game, his growly demeanor, and his razor wit he could unleash at will. Drawing on recollections from fellow wrestlers, promoters, and friends, this first biography of Kiniski gives a full account of the life of a champion pro wrestler who won over fans throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan in a career spanning more than three decades.

Author : Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604193
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain kind of hero to hoist that wolfman overhead into an airplane spin, follow with a body slam, drop an atomic elbow across his mangy neck, leg-lock him until he howls, and pin his furry back to the mat for a three-count. It takes a Mexican masked wrestler. Add a few half-naked vampire women, Aztec mummies, mad scientists, evil midgets from space, and a goateed Frankenstein monster, and you have just some of the elements of Mexican masked wrestler and monster movies, certainly among the most bizarre, surreal and imaginative films ever produced. This filmography features some of the oddest cinematic showdowns ever concocted—Mexican masked wrestlers battling monsters, evil geniuses and other ne’er-do-wells, be it in caves, cobwebbed castles or in the ring. From the 1950s to the 1970s, these movies were staples of Mexican cinema, combining action, horror, sex, science fiction and comedy into a bizarre amalgam aimed to please the whole family. Chapters examine the roots of the phenomenon, including the hugely popular masked wrestling scene and the classic Universal horror films from which Mexican filmmakers stole without compunction. Subsequent chapters focus on El Santo, Blue Demon, and Mil Mascaras, the three most prominent masked wrestlers; wrestling women; other less prominent masked wrestlers; and the insane mish-mash of monsters pitted against the heroes. Each chapter includes background information and a full filmography, and a wide assortment of striking illustrations—posters, lobby cards and other graphic material, some better than the movies they advertised—accompany the text.