Ring Reads: Top 10 Essential Wrestling Page-Turners!

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When diving into a wrestling book, it's essential to read with a critical eye, considering if the author might have personal biases against other wrestlers or promoters or if they're primarily focused on enhancing their own reputation. Learn more

10. Grappler: Memoirs of a Masked Madman Len Denton's book offers an enthralling journey into the territory days of pro wrestling, unhesitant in exploring his personal setbacks.

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9. Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling His famous hubris is on full display in this book, and it comes off as written by a man with a very large ego who is concerned that his rightful place in wrestling history won’t be recognized.

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8. The Last Outlaw There may not be many new tales here that a committed fan hasn't come across indirectly, but experiencing Stan Hansen's perspective on these stories is a delight.

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7. The King of New Orleans: How the Junkyard Dog Became Professional Wrestling’s First Black Superhero Klein’s book details an enormously successful period in the Mid-South territory and calls attention to the incredible career and life of the Junkyard Dog, and is very much worth the read.

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6. Ric Flair: To Be the Man The best autobiographies are confessional, and the Nature Boy’s book certainly fits the bill from the jump, opening with Flair sharing that he’d been born an orphan and fortunately adopted into the Fleihr family.

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