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The Complete Wwf Video Guide Volume I Paperback – June 15, 2013
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- Reading age1 year and up
- Print length324 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.44 x 0.73 x 9.68 inches
- Publisherlulu.com
- Publication dateJune 15, 2013
- ISBN-10129110089X
- ISBN-13978-1291100891
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- Publisher : lulu.com (June 15, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 324 pages
- ISBN-10 : 129110089X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1291100891
- Reading age : 1 year and up
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.44 x 0.73 x 9.68 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,452,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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James Dixon has been watching wrestling for over 20 years. Inspired by the likes of Davey Boy Smith, Bret Hart, The Ultimate Warrior and The Undertaker, Dixon was drawn to the business like any other fan; for reasons that are difficult to explain.
A hobby quickly became an obsession, and Dixon was determined to get involved in wrestling by utilising the one thing he could do: write about it. In previous books James wrote alongside his “writing partner” Evil Ste. The truth is, the Evil Ste character was merely an extension of Dixon’s own personality, his way of sharing his Jekyll and Hyde opinions on things. The writing choice worked fairly well at first, but the team at History of Wrestling all felt it had perhaps become more gimmicky that was hoped, so Dixon has reverted to just writing as himself.
Well, we say himself. In reality James is a former British professional wrestler, but he has adopted the pseudonym to retain relative anonymity and to distance himself from his past career in the industry. However, that past experience does give him a unique and more inside perspective on things than the others, though he is still a “mark” at heart.
James has limited patience and borderline apathy for anything in wrestling post-2002, and much prefers 80s and 90s grappling. Curious really, because as you will see from his writing, he spends a lot of time complaining about it.

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Being from New Zealand I HATED the Bushwhackers (loved the Sheephearders)... And so do the authors... thank god! What did the Rougeau Bros do to deserve being stuck in that pointless feud with them?!
The book itself is very comprehensive and a genuinely useful reference guide, even if choosing between vintage WWF tapes is (thanks to the likes of YouTube) now an issue of time rather than money. There are some very neat touches like a complete ranking of all the tapes and a listing of the highest rated individual matches, plus some fun capsule bios.
The writing style won't necessarily be to everyone's taste. From a literary perspective it's fine -- it all reads smoothly and flows well. However, with a review project like this there's a fine line between being dry and dull, or being too outlandish. The style varies as there's a panel of authors, but on several occasions it verges too far into a forced personality with too many of the "smart fan" cliches such as excessive swearing, repetitive jokes about bookers being on drugs and the like. I understand these will be refined in volume 2, which will be a welcome improvement. One particular issue is the repeated references to individual wrestlers' motivation going into a bout (in reality, not storyline) which is clearly little more than speculation.
All that aside, it's definitely worth a read whether you are coming to this as nostalgia or its your first exposure to some of these classic -- and not so classic - video releases.
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This is my era of wrestling!
I remember it was 1988, I was 11 years old. I came back from school and to my utter surprise, I found that my Dad had had cable installed.
Over the next couple of weeks, I spent hours watching the multitude of different channels - I was quickly drawn to the Wrestling.
It didn't really matter that British Wrestling had just been cancelled on TV, this was far better to my young eyes.
The WWF's popularity soon spread all over my school and within a year, Silvervision started to release VHS tapes. I remember that you had to order them over the telephone, I ordered Wrestlemania's Greatest Matches and Hulk Hogan Real America, I passed on High Flyers.
Soon after, I bought almost every official tape released. Each release, featured content from before I started watching. I remember I used to love not knowing what matches or which wrestlers were going to be featured. Remember this was pre-internet, so the only way I could learn about the history of wrestling, other than the tapes was the imported Victory Sports magazines, which whilst informative, were still worked.
I never got into tape trading - I wish I had but I think I was too young. I used to look longingly at the adverts of the US tapes in the WWF magazine.
25 years later, thanks to this book, I get to relive the tapes I had and finally learn what content and how good the American ones were!
First of all, I was very impressed at how many pages are in this book, it covers a vast amount of tapes(sorry, I didn't count them) - great value for money.
Secondly, the layout is superb. I love that the video covers have been reproduced, I love the wrestler profiles throughout the book and I love that it highlights everything featured on the tape - It's very easy and enjoyable to read.
I didn't know Coliseum Video had released 80% of these tapes and as a long time wrestling fan, even I didn't know that some of these match-ups existed.
The synopsis/review of each match is very informative and there's good description of the action. If I had a criticism, I would replace the star rating with a percentage system. To me 55% looks better and clearer than **3/4.
Funnily, I did learn that even back then, the choice of matches put onto each tape is questionable or that the WWE still doesn't know after all these years, what to include and what to disregard.
I would have liked to have given this book 5 stars but there are just a few grammatical errors, some pages are in the wrong order and some of the contributors could have been a bit more objective but nothing that takes any real enjoyment away.
I highly recommend this book to people who lived the era or to those that want to learn more about the history of the WWE!
I got Volume 2 in the post today


