Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 3

read part one here read part two here The Books Mere months after the Benoit tragedy, a collection of articles were put together for form a book entitled Benoit:Wrestling with the Horror That Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport. One of the authors is Irv Muchnick, who's also working on a book called Chris and Nancy. He has written a number of [read more...]

Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 2

read part one here read part three here Concussions Chris Nowinski is a former professional wrestler himself. His WWE career was cut short in June 2003 after a series of concussions, and Nowinski channeled his energy toward concussion research. In 2006, he wrote a book about the NFL's concussion problem, entitled Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. Over the next couple years, Nowinski [read more...]

Chris Benoit: One Year Later - Part 1

It was in June 2007 when the world of professional wrestling changed forever. Chris Benoit murdered his wife Nancy, his son Daniel, and finally killed himself on an early summer weekend. While deaths in professional wrestling have become all too common in the last 15 years, the circumstances surrounding what happened are what shocked so many. What made this different was [read more...]

I’ll be Back

Due to working on Rush articles, a Chris Benoit article, and just taking a writing break to the summer, I haven't written on this blog in a while. But I'll be back later this week to give a bit of a preview of the postseason as far as who the Rush should want to win this week as well as [read more...]

An Interview with Scott Keith

Scott Keith is a Canadian author who has never been formally attached the wrestling busness. Yet, he has accumulated a large fanbase because of his love for wrestling and his sometimes unorthodox views on the business. He has already written three books about the sometimes hard to understand world of professional wrestling, and is coming out with another this November. [read more...]

NSR REVIEWS: Wrestling Babylon

Wrestling Babylon, a book written by noted author and freelance journalist Irv Muchnick, isn't really a book. It's more a collection of magazine articles that dare to pull the curtain back on the world of professional wrestling. Muchnick, the nephew of legendary St. Louis promoter Sam Muchnick, has "followed pro wrestling since he was knee high to a turnbuckle." Professional wrestling [read more...]