Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling

Wipe your feet-you've just stepped in WrestleCrap! It's happened to all of us. You're sitting at home, watching pro wrestling on the tube, when suddenly, something incredibly awful hits the screen. You shake your head in disbelief. A wrestling plumber? An evil dentist? Two grown men fighting over a turkey? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? In seeking out explanations for such entertainment travesties, longtime wrestling fans (and apparent masochists) R.D. Reynolds and Randy Baer take a trip down memory lane through some of the worst wrestling storylines and characters of all time. Remember the Red Rooster? Or Irwin R. Schyster, evil tax accountant? How about the time when "porn star" Val Venis got his wiener chopped off? If you thought you just imagined these things, think again. And you won't believe the motivations behind such catastrophes-sometimes more laughable than the spectacles themselves. In between laughs, you'll also come to realize just how much damage these misjudgments caused behind the scenes. Not only did the characters look ridiculous in the ring, but their debuts often destroyed the livelihoods of the men and women who produced and portrayed them. Too much WrestleCrap once caused a multi-million dollar company to perish altogether. Covering such disasters as an evil one-eyed midget and a wrestler from the mystical land of Oz, not to mention a doomed Turkey on a Pole match, WrestleCrap is hysterically merciless in its evaluation of such organizations as WCW and WWE. This retrospective look at the wrestling world's most foolish attempts to attract viewers will leave fans and critics in stitches.Randy Baer is the author of 'Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling', published 2003 under ISBN 9781550225846 and ISBN 1550225847.