National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Professional Wrestling

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In the 1950s in Las Vegas, a businessman's conglomerate dominating a 25 million a year sports industry hid their practices from the US Dept of Justice. The sport that placed cold hard cash over honest competition Pro wrestling. The conspirators The National Wrestling Alliance. Hornbaker examines the NWA's huge success - and their relationships to influential politicians and writers, who protected their financial interests for over 50 years. Breaking the facade of sports production, he also shows how promoters actually resorted to violence to edge out competition.

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"If I were to teach a course on the history of professional wrestling, this would be the text book." "--"alanwojcik.com

"The most comprehensive and well-written reference piece associated with the business of professional wrestling. . . . Highest possible recommendation." --GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com

"Well-researched . . . brings back such names as Vincent McMahon Sr. and the 'father' of the NWA, Sam Muchnick." --The Slammer, "New York Daily News"

Author Bio

Timothy Hornbaker has researched professional wrestling for the past 10 years. For this book, he has received assistance from descendants of the National Wrestling Alliances most famous members. He is an avid baseball fan and lives in Southern Florida.