The Wrestling

1996 non-fiction book

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The Wrestling

First edition (with image of Kendo Nagasaki)

Author| Simon Garfield
Subject| Professional Wrestling
Publisher| Faber & Faber

Publication date

| 4 November 1996
Media type| Print (Hardcover, paperback)
Pages| 256
ISBN| 978-0571236763

Dewey Decimal

| 796.8

The Wrestling is a non-fiction book by Simon Garfield, a British journalist and author. It charts the rise and fall in popularity of British professional wrestling over the course of the twentieth century.

## Overview[edit]

The book consists almost entirely of interviews with professional wrestlers or those who knew them, including Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki and the female wrestler Klondyke Kate, often giving the appearance of a conversation between the interviewees and the author.

Garfield also interviewed those involved in the promotion of professional wrestling, with a particular focus on the decision of LWT chief Greg Dyke to drop the sport from its schedules in 1988.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Garfield, Simon, The Wrestling, Faber and Faber, 2007 ISBN 978-0-571-23676-3 p.145

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