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Professional wrestling has never been as popular as it has been over the last thirty years. Beginning with Hulk Hogan’s rise to the top of the industry and the advent of WrestleMania, it found a place in the pop culture lexicon that made it a widely accepted, albeit still controversial, form of sports entertainment. The WWE has led the way, making the business as much about theatricality as it is about simulated combat and expanding their viewership in the process. Subsequently, a generation of fans has grown up with pro wrestling as one of their pastimes.
Wrestling’s growth has paralleled the rise of the media’s obsession with sports. Fans enjoy greater access than ever before to their favorite teams and superstars through television and the internet. Increased coverage has brought more in-depth discussion, creating a network of enthusiasts who are as much critics as they are devotees. Sports analysis is no longer just water cooler talk. Be it as diehard supporters of respective sports enjoying educated conversations or be it as a team’s employed statistician, we have become a sports world obsessed with analytics.
The WWE product is more globally visible than ever. They currently broadcast their weekly programming in 150 countries and in 30 languages. Websites that cover pro wrestling draw tens of millions of people every week from around the world. Much like ESPN, Fox Sports, and others, these sites provide news, results, and insider reports. The thirst for a constant stream of information is as strong amongst wrestling fans as it is for any sport or entertainment avenue. “The Doc” Chad Matthews knows that better than anyone. He started watching wrestling with his grandfather when he was two years old. In his early college years, he began writing television recaps of WWE shows for a popular website as a hobby, later writing full-fledged critical columns and reviews while going through professional schooling to become a doctor. During the same period, he took a strong interest in analytics.
Matthews eventually followed the lead of his favorite basketball writer, Bill Simmons, in combining his interest for hyper analysis with the sport that he covered. Simmons proceeded to take his analytical approach and create a list of over ninety of the greatest to have ever played in the National Basketball Association. His amazing work, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, was the ultimate fan account of pro basketball history. Inspired, “The Doc” set out to write the modern pro wrestling equivalent. He developed a methodical criterion to support his personal observations of nearly thirty years of fandom in order to definitively answer the question as to which wrestlers belong in the debate for the greatest of all-time. While analytically reviewing and celebrating the “WrestleMania Era” dating back to the early 1980s, he spent countless hours researching, formulating, and categorizing the matches, the interviews, the main-events, the pay-per-view buyrates, the television ratings, and the championships won.
A five-tiered breakdown shaped the definitive list. Through a formula (to bridge the gap between eras) for championships won, a scale for main-events and headlining matches to account for longevity, a compilation of television ratings and pay-per-view buy rate data for financial success, a wrestler scoring system to reflect physical attributes and microphone skills, and a film critic-like star rating scale to account for performance, Matthews has named the “Greatest Wrestlers of the WrestleMania Era.”
- Sales Rank: #852256 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-02-18
- Released on: 2015-02-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
“The Doc” Chad Matthews is the pen name used for the popular online wrestling columnist from WrestlingHeadlines.com and LordsofPain.net. For a decade, he has written critical reviews of WWE television shows and pay-per-views, as well as a wide variety of columns from a ranking of every WrestleMania match in history to a one year series of short stories creatively detailing the lives of WWE superstars to thorough breakdowns of WWE financials to weekly thoughts on current events. A physician by trade, Matthews began writing about wrestling as a hobby to take his mind off of his rigorous class load during his professional education. Interacting with people from all over the world (his column readership spans six continents) provided him with a unique outlet. He credits writing about his favorite pastime for helping him get through school and open a private health clinic in his hometown. After 30 years as a wrestling fan, “The Doc” gives an unmatched analytical perspective on pro wrestling in the modern era. Matthews lives in North Carolina with his wife, daughter, and two dogs.
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If you love to read and love professional wrestling, then this is pretty much heaven.
By Shane P. Sebunia
I read a lot and I watch wrestling a lot. That said, I don't read a lot of books about professional wrestling. I've read Mick Foley's first two books, I've read Chris Jericho's book, and that's pretty much it. While I am a fan of history, as well, the books I read tend to be fiction. I am, however, also an erstwhile wrestling columnist and, while I don't read them often anymore, used to read columns about professional wrestling quite a bit and even had the dream of one day compiling my columns into a book. That time has come and gone mainly because I lost the majority of my columns years ago. "The Doc" Chad Matthews, who writes for the same site I used to, has gone one better than that, though. He's taken his considerable opinions about professional wrestling, added in some statistical analysis, and combined it all into a fantastic read. I read fiction because I want to be moved to emotion. I want to cheer with the bad guys, and mourn when something awful happens to them and I want to follow along with the story.
In crafting The Wrestlemania Era the way he has, Matthews has, in essence, told a story. It may not be a story with a clearly defined beginning, middle, and ending, but that's okay. Sometimes you have to work for your entertainment and that's something that makes it all the more rewarding. In this book, The Doc covers basically thirty years of professional wrestling and analyzes--in reverse order (countdown style)--who the best 90 performers from that era are. The gamut runs from Starrcade 1983 until the end of 2012. Why 90? I have no idea. Personally, I would have gone with 100, but I would assume because breaking it up into neat 30 person tiers has a certain appeal. Thing is, though, not all of these stars started wrestling during this period, so more is covered in some cases than just those thirty years. This book reads like a who's who of professional wrestling and regardless of how much of a wrestling fan or historian you are, you're going to learn something.
If you're a young fan, you're going to learn a lot and get a general idea of where to place your heroes along with the all-time greats. I have a hard time saying that this book defines where a wrestler belongs, because I disagree with some of it (especially how the top 10 rank,) but it certainly will give you an idea. There were places I literally couldn't wait to praise Matthews for (full disclosure: while he and I are not friends and have never actually spoken as of this writing, we've always been on friendly terms and have, of late, been messaging each other a little bit,) but there were other times I wanted to throw my copy of his book across the room. The couple of times I actually did were the times I was glad only the paperback copy was available and I didn't damage my Kindle. I loved his passages about Eddie Guerrero, Lex Luger, Diamond Dallas Page, Ricky Steamboat, and Chris Benoit. I hated the ones on Stone Cold Steve Austin, Edge, John Cena, and The Rock. His one on The Rock, though, is brilliantly written and made me completely rethink my current opinion on him.
That's why I hated it. While I don't mind my opinions being challenged, I despise when they are outright changed. The Doc really is a brilliant writer, and because of this, it's easy to live and die with his descriptions of these wrestler's careers just like you would with a Brandon Sanderson novel. Of course, it doesn't hurt that I was a wrestling fan for all but 4 years of the span he covers here, and know most of these characters. In that sense, I was reliving my experiences with these guys and re-experiencing many of the emotions I felt along the way, while also being reminded of things I'd forgotten over the course of time. Personally, I took this book in segments, and I love the way in which it's laid out. As I mentioned above, there are three tiers with 30 wrestlers each and he lays out at the end of each tier how the numbers broke down. More than that, though, he strives to emphasize the importance of the performers in another way, as he devotes more words and pages to the guys in the first tier than he does to those who rank from 90-61.
I really enjoyed this aspect because I liked reading about 10 passages at a time, and then as we got down to the real nitty gritty, going five at a time. This allowed me to savor what I was reading, while also being able to put a greater focus--as Matthews, himself did--on those who earned their spot in the top tier. Everything about the way this was put together makes The Wrestlemania Era a professional wrestling tome for the ages, and it couldn't have come along at a better time, because now that the WWE Network has come along even if you haven't lived through the times Chad is talking about, you can do so. If you get interested in exactly what made DDP vs. Macho Man so good, you can watch the matches on The Network. If you wonder exactly how ridiculous Jeff Hardy's table spot on CM Punk was, pop on SummerSlam 2009 and check it out. Want to see Hulk Hogan redefine himself when the NWO formed? Click on Bash at the Beach 1996. To me, these two products are each others' perfect companion.
I don't just like this book, I love it and I would recommend it for any fan of any age. You'll laugh, you'll be moved to tears, and you will certainly think. That's all you can ask of any form of entertainment, and while this combines two forms of entertainment into one, I believe instead of your entertainment value doubling, it's raised exponentially. Buy this book, read this book, love this book. You won't regret it. This is an instant classic, and I can't wait for either the follow-up in a decade or The Doc's next undertaking, which should come much sooner. If you are a fan of professional wrestling, this is the book for you. If you want to read arguments about who are the best 90 professional wrestlers of the last 30 years, this is the book for you. If you love to read and love professional wrestling, then this is pretty much heaven. Welcome to The Wrestlemania Era Era.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The Doctor Is In...
By G Thomas Klemick
As a longtime fan of professional wrestling, I have waited for years for someone to write a book that discusses the medium in both a passionate and intelligent way. For a long time, fans like myself were left with wrestler autobiographies and a few, select wrestling-based websites to fill our need for non-kayfabe literature. After reading The Wrestlemania Era: The Book of Sports Entertainment, I am thrilled to say that author Chad Matthews has finally given us the informative, thoughtful and downright entertaining read that fans have so long desired.
Matthews’ book is both a labor of love and a love letter to the world of professional wrestling. The centerpiece of his work is a countdown of the 90 greatest wrestlers of the “Wrestlemania Era,” a period that encompasses nearly 40 years from the late 1970s to present day and includes superstars who made names for themselves in various promotions including WWE, WCW, ECW and other smaller promotions/territories no longer in business. Matthews uses a wide range of criteria that includes in-ring performance, financial success, look, etc., to create one of the most unbiased examinations of a portion of the history of professional wrestling ever recorded.
Along with his knowledge of the sport’s history, one of Matthews’ greatest qualities is his writing style. Each chapter of the book is engaging and none feel like a carbon copy of what came before. When highlighting one wrestler, he may cite a personal experience when justifying that superstar’s ranking (Edge, for example). In another section, he does a fantastic job of putting a wrestler’s career into perspective and context despite troubling circumstances (Chris Benoit). His greatest strength however, may be his ability to inform the reader and back up his claims without coming across as arrogant. You can sense Matthews’ perfect blend of enthusiasm as a fan and wealth of information as a member of the “wrestling media” in every sentence.
For those unfamiliar with Matthews’ work, it should take just a few pages for a newcomer to become a fan of his writing. For those who enjoy his work as “The Doc” on LordsofPain.net, you will not be disappointed here. While some might expect this book to be an extended “Doctor’s Orders” column, Matthews’ output here actually allows him to expand on his subject matter in a way that is difficult to accomplish online. Everyone’s favorite wrestler of the past 35 years is highlighted in this book and despite my love and knowledge of superstars including The Rock, Randy Savage and CM Punk, Matthews’ all-around perspective only enhanced the way I view their careers and legacies. Whether you’re a long-time, die hard wrestling fan or someone becoming familiar with the product for the first time, Matthews offers something for everyone.
Simply put, The Wrestlemania Era: The Book of Sports Entertainment is an in-depth, highly entertaining and informative look at the best the world of professional wrestling has had to offer over the past four decades. For my money, it lives up to its title as THE definitive sports entertainment publication and stands alongside the absolute best offerings from the world of professional wrestling.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Step into the ring with author Chad Matthews!
By Maximumsac
Does Professional Wrestling bring back memories from your childhood? Do you recall some of the biggest names over the past 30 years? Are you still a weekly fan to this day? This book will be a treat for you to enjoy from start to finish. From the mildly interested to the passionate, this book is absolutely worth it. Not only has Matthews complied an impressive and comprehensive 'Order of the Greats,' he's woven their respective histories and careers together in a manner that paints a cohesive landscape of Wrestlers from then to now. How their careers began, some of their famous matches, their allies and sworn enemies...and he accomplishes this without the 'red tape of the wrestling biz,' in a no-nonsense fashion based on their true and pure Wrestling grit.
You will not find a book like this anywhere else. If you're a long time fan and stepped away from the ring, go ahead and lace your boots back up. A few pages in to this book, you'll find yourself counting down until the next Monday Night show. And if you're a current fan, you'll enjoy this book more than the next Wrestlemania!
"But you don't have to take *my* word for it." Go on and treat yourself!
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