Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture)

Entertaining, well written, and well researched. Tells the history of early wrestling and how it helped laid the bed rock for pro wrestling, fight promotion, and live entertainment as we know it today.

Ballyhoo tells the fascinating backstory of how professional wrestling developed in America. Long before creeps like Vince MacMahon developed monopolies over the trade, a small number of clever characters created the groundwork for one of America's most beloved and most despised athletic spectacles. Fantastic research here and expertly written. Worth your while as a solid history of American pop culture.

A fantastic read. Incredibly well researched and detailed.

Haven't read it but anytime I get a package ontime in the right place I am happy