We Promised You a Great Main Event
An Unauthorized WWE History
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Josh Bloomberg
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Bill Hanstock
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Unauthorized. Unrestricted. No holds barred.
In We Promised You a Great Main Event, longtime sports journalist Bill Hanstock pulls back the curtain to give a smart fan’s account of WWE and Vince McMahon’s journey to the top. Untangling the truth behind the official WWE storyline, Hanstock does a deep dive into key moments of the company’s history, from the behind-the-scenes drama at the Montreal Screwjob, to the company’s handling of the Jimmy Snuka scandal, to the real story of the Monday Night Wars.
WWE is an extraordinary business success and an underappreciated pop cultural phenomenon. While WWE soared to prominence during the Hulk Hogan years, as the stakes grew more and more extreme, wrestlers faced steroid scandals and assault allegations. The whole story is here, good, bad, and ugly, from the heights of iconic cultural moments like Wrestlemania III to the arrival of global superstars like The Rock and John Cena.
We Promised You a Great Main Event is an exhaustive, fun account of the McMahon family and WWE’s unprecedented rise. Drawing on a decade of covering wrestling, Bill Hanstock synthesizes insights from historians, journalists, and industry insiders with his own deep research to produce the most up-to-date, entertaining history of WWE available. Full of amazing characters and astonishing stories from the ring to corporate boardrooms, it is a story as audacious as any WWE spectacle.
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- Kevin
- 2024-07-26
good book
was interested in the business/culture side of the story, which was good and often very good. the author veers too much into extended fanboy rants.
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- Patrick Fouchere
- 2024-02-09
Just ok
Gets a lot of contextual details and dates wrong when referring to specific events. Core details are generally correct but things like time/place/event type are often incorrect.
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- allan johnson
- 2022-07-02
wonderful
My only down was the reader. Who mispronounced serval names. Other then that the story is wonderful and well told
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