Adam Kleinberg - Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved

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Get in the Ring Radio Presents!

HAS THE INTERNET RUINED W R E ST LI N G? !

I S PAU L ORNDORFF DEAD?

A R E R E F E R E E S R EA LLY B LI N D? !

Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved is a hysterical and informative look at the Nudelman

Kleinberg and

sports entertainment industry, brought to you by the hosts of the longest running professional wrestling radio show in history, Get in the Ring. Sir Adam and the Phantom are your guides, and with them youll discover the answers to wrestlings deepest, darkest mysteries.

But the hosts of Get in the Ring arent alonetheyve enlisted the help of some of the sports biggest stars. With names like Steve Austin, Kamala (yes, he talks!), Joanie Laurer (AKA Chyna), Sid Vicious and Bobby the M

Brain Heenan, theres a wealth of insider information.

Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved also utilizes the ysteries of W

extensive archives of the Get in the Ring library, and includes classic interviews with some of wrestlings most beloved starsthe Rock, Bret the Hitman Hart and Hulk Hogan are all here!

Is there life

No turnbuckle goes unsearched, and no foreign object is left after wrestling?

behind in the effort to uncover the truth about wrestlings most disputed issues. Ever wonder who was the toughest guy outside the ring? And what about the Kliqwere they bad or good for the business? In Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved the wrestlers themselves provide the answers.

SIR ADAM KLEINBERG: Now that his alter ego has been revealed, he will be forced r

to answer questions about Doink the Clown and Mr. Fuji to his fellow courthouse estling:

attorneys. As such, he has now expanded his practicefrom handling complex employment, civil rights and insurance coverage litigation, to also arbitrating debates as to who is the most effective at utilizing the steel cage. This is his first book.

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ADAM PHANTOM NUDELMAN works as a television producer by day, but at night dons the mask of the Phantom to write, host and produce Get in the Ring. Having now Solv

worked in every facet of the mediatelevision, radio and printhe must finally be considered the Real King of All Media. Besides writing the occasional greeting card, this is his first book.

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ECW Press

ISBN-13 978-1-55022-685-0

ISBN-10 1-55022-685-1

Sir Adam Kleinberg and

$18.95 US $25.95 CDN

Distributed in the USA by Independent Publishers Group Adam Phantom Nudelman

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and in Canada by Jaguar Book Group

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Sir Adam Kleinberg

and Adam The Phantom Nudelman

ECW Press

kMysteriesWrestlingPRELIM_m3 9/19/06 1:32 PM Page ii Copyright Adam Kleinberg and Adam Nudelman, 2005

Published by ECW Press

2120 Queen Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4E 1E2

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any process electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyright owners and ECW Press.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Kleinberg, Adam

Mysteries of wrestling: solved / Adam Kleinberg and Adam Nudelman.

ISBN 1-55022-685-1

1. Wrestling. I. Nudelman, Adam II. Title.

GV1195.K54 2005 796.812 C2049070541

Editor for the press: Michael Holmes

Typesetting: Mary Bowness

Front cover photos: Marco Shark, Mark Fisette, Mike Lano, Larry Plitnick Back cover photos: Mike Lano, Larry Plitnick Spine photo: Gordon Tepper

Printing: Printcrafters

This book is set in Boton, Imago and Metaphor The publication of Mysteries of Wrestling: Solved has been generously supportedby the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

DISTRIBUTION

Canada: Jaguar Book Group, 100 Armstrong Ave., Georgetown, ON L7G 5S4

United States: Independent Publishers Group, 814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

PRINTED AND BOUND IN CANADA

kMysteriesWrestlingPRELIM_m3 9/19/06 1:32 PM Page iii Contents

Foreword ix

Was There Really a Cannibal in Wrestling?

Who's the Toughest Guy in Wrestling?

Did the Kliq Control Wrestling?

Is Wrestling Genetic?

Why Does Steve Austin Hate Jeff Jarrett?

Was ECW the Best Wrestling Promotion Ever?

Has the Internet Ruined Wrestling?

Is Paul Orndorff Dead?

Are Referees Blind?

Is Hulk Hogan the Best Friend a Wrestler Can Have?

Is Wrestling Fake?

Is There Life After Wrestling?

kMysteriesWrestlingPRELIM_m3 9/19/06 1:32 PM Page iv PHOTO C RE DITS

Mark Fisette: page 90

Larry Plitnick: pages ix, xi, 248

Marco Shark: 202, 233

Gordon Tepper: 191

All other photos are by Mike Lano.

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