Book Description
This detailed chronicle looks at the lives, times, and deaths of the biggest names that the sport of professional wrestling has produced. Picking up where Tributes: Remembering Some of the World’s Greatest Professional Wrestlers left off, author Dave Meltzer focuses on sports entertainment’s most recent and high-profile losses, including Road Warrior Hawk, Curt Hennig, Elizabeth, Stu Hart, Tim Woods, Davey Boy Smith, Gorilla Monsoon, Terry Gordy, Wahoo McDaniel, Johnny Valentine, The Sheik, Freddie Blassie, and Lou Thesz. Tributes II: Remembering More of the World’s Greatest Wrestlers also offers expanded versions of some of the most popular profiles from Tributes, including Owen Hart, and Andre the Giant. Offering candid and detailed accounts of bona fide wrestling legends and a foreword by Bret Hart, Tributes II takes its place among the most important books ever written on the world of pro wrestling. Tributes II also includes an in-depth interview with Dave Meltzer that will take readers Beyond the Book. This very candid, personal interview will give fans even more insight into the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling.


About the Author
Dave Meltzer is considered the pioneer of pro wrestling journalism. His Wrestling Observer is the most well read and authoritative weekly newsletter in the wrestling industry. His first book, Tributes, is considered one of the best wrestling books ever written. Meltzer also hosts a national weekly wrestling radio show on Sports Byline. He resides in San Jose, California.

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