22 must-read nonfiction books like Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom by Tom Billington, Alison Coleman

Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom

By: Tom Billington , Alison Coleman

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom by Tom Billington, Alison Coleman , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling (Spirit of the River Series) by Andrew William Wright, Joe Laurinaitis, None, Precious Paul Ellering

1. The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling (Spirit of the River Series)

By: Andrew William Wright , Joe Laurinaitis , None , Precious Paul Ellering

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Delivering an inside account of one of wrestling's most famous fighters, this autobiography offers … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore by Terry Funk, Scott E. Williams

2. Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore

By: Terry Funk , Scott E. Williams

4.23

Format: 510 pages,

He's been a fixture in professional wrestling for five decades. He's plied his trade around the wor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

3. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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Cover of A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex by Chris Jericho, Peter T. Fornatale

4. A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex

By: Chris Jericho , Peter T. Fornatale

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Chris Jericho is the first undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and WCW, and has been called … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of My Fight / Your Fight by Ronda Rousey, None, Maria Burns Ortiz, Dana White

5. My Fight / Your Fight

By: Ronda Rousey , None , Maria Burns Ortiz , Dana White

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

"The fight is yours to win." In this inspiring and moving book, Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks by Mick Foley, WWF

6. Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

By: Mick Foley , WWF

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So ho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports

7. Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom

By: Tom Billington , Alison Coleman

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling by R.D. Reynolds, Randy Baer

8. Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling

By: R.D. Reynolds , Randy Baer

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Outrageous costumes, cartoonish characters, and scripted story lines are featured in this retrospec… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling by Bret Hart

9. Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling

By: Bret Hart

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

In his own words, Bret Hart's honest, perceptive, startling account of his life in and out of the p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports

10. The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling

By: David Shoemaker

3.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Grantland and Deadspin correspondent presents a breakthrough examination of the professional wrestl… read more

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11. Cross Rhodes: Goldust, Out of the Darkness

By: Mark Vancil , None

4.09

Format: 156 pages,

He first burst onto the scene in the nineties, covered in gold face paint and exhibiting a one-of-a… read more

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12. The Rock Says

By: Joe Layden , None

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The Rock says. . . "Know your damn role--and shut your mouth!" But that simple catch-phrase, embrac… read more

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13. The Death of WCW

By: R.D. Reynolds , Bryan Alvarez

3.74

Format: 168 pages,

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14. Walking a Golden Mile

By: None , None

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Chapter One: A Wrestler, a Comic or a Clown I'm not as old as you might think. It's just that I've … read more

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15. Ric Flair: To Be the Man

By: Keith Elliot Greenberg , Ric Flair

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Woooooo! (tm)" With that triumphant cry, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair surpassed his predecessors and his… read more

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16. The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea

By: Chris Jericho , Peter T. Fornatale

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author, wrestler, metal rocker, and over-the-top media personality sh… read more

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Cover of Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever by Tim Hornbaker

17. Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever

By: Tim Hornbaker

3.93

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

For decades, distinct professional wrestling territories thrived across North America. Each regiona… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of MOX by Jon Moxley

18. MOX

By: Jon Moxley

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl by Rebecca Quin

19. Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

By: Rebecca Quin

4.51

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

This compelling and deeply personal memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. B… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will complete you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will destroy you"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

"Then and there, I vowed to lose weight so I might have a chance of actually being like my mom when I grew up. But then I got hungry and sad and just wanted pizza. Beauty was my mom's domain. Pizza wa…"

-Rebecca Quin, Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl

Cover of Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman

20. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • sports
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain – Real Pro Wrestling Stories by Jim Cornette

21. Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain – Real Pro Wrestling Stories

By: Jim Cornette

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Pro wrestling's secrets and greatest moments are immortalized in this graphic novel from legendary … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling by Tod Gordon

22. Tod is God: The Authorized Story of How I Created Extreme Championship Wrestling

By: Tod Gordon

4.09

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

The uncensored inside story of ECW’s founder Tod Gordon’s journey from jewelry store owner to one o… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans

23. Nitro: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW

By: Guy Evans

4.28

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Reviews "The most definitive, well written and thoroughly researched book on the rise and fall of W… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
Cover of Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond by Jim Ross

24. Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond

By: Jim Ross

4.30

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross comes a candid, colorful memoir about the inner working… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sports
"Cutting to the chase, I don't see Sting in WWE any time soon and especially not in the ring vs. the Undertaker in the Georgia Dome. I do think that Sting would be well served to explore potential mar…"

-Jim Ross, Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond

Cover of Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues by Matt Jackson

25. Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues

By: Matt Jackson

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

"The Young Bucks are two guys who not only beat the odds to become one of the greatest, most popula… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of Crazy Like A Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later by Liam O'Rourke

26. Crazy Like A Fox: The Definitive Chronicle of Brian Pillman 20 Years Later

By: Liam O'Rourke

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

"The best biography ever done on a wrestler" - Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer "May very well be t… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
Cover of A Chosen Destiny: My Story by Drew McIntyre

27. A Chosen Destiny: My Story

By: Drew McIntyre

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this thrilling, no-holds-barred memoir that shows why he is “an inspiration to millions of WWE f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Dynamite and Davey: The Explosive Lives of the British Bulldogs by Steven Bell

28. Dynamite and Davey: The Explosive Lives of the British Bulldogs

By: Steven Bell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Dynamite and Davey is the explosive story of cousins Tom Billington and Davey Boy Smith, who broke … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Strong Style by Scott Norton

29. Strong Style

By: Scott Norton

4.55

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

Strong Style is the autobiography of Scott "Flash" Norton, world arm-wrestling champion and profess… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Bruiser Brody by Emerson Murray

30. Bruiser Brody

By: Emerson Murray

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bruiser Brody- life and times of frank donald goodish, aka , king kong brody, masked marauder, and … read more

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  • biography
Cover of The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport by Aubrey Sitterson

31. The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport

By: Aubrey Sitterson

4.30

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

From the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot , this graphic novel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography

20 best-selling biography books like Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom by Tom Billington, Alison Coleman

Transform Your Habits

The Road Warriors: Danger, Death, and the Rush of Wrestling (Spirit of the River Series)

Andrew William Wright , Joe Laurinaitis , None , Precious Paul Ellering

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore

Terry Funk , Scott E. Williams

4.23

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A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex

Chris Jericho , Peter T. Fornatale

3.91

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My Fight / Your Fight

Ronda Rousey , None , Maria Burns Ortiz , Dana White

4.05

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Heartbreak & Triumph: The Shawn Michaels Story

Shawn Michaels , Aaron Feigenbaum

3.89

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Yes: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of WrestleMania

Daniel Bryan , Craig Tello

3.70

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Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar

Shawn Michaels , David L. Thomas

3.93

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3.91

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