What is your favorite wwe autobiography?

[silk]

Ive read jerichos undisputed and i personally couldnt put it down. I never really liked jericho as a wrestler or his band growing up with wcw but for the past few years hes grown on me.

I've also read Shawn Michaels heartbreak and triumpth book same as jerichos i couldnt put it down for nothing. My favorite read was Eddys book it was really inspiring to me and gave a indepth on his background growing up.

Ive tried reading foleys second book "foley is good" and it just bores the hell out of me ive had it for a month and honeslty cant get into it..

Now i have two questions for you.

Whats your favorite book and why?
Also name any that are worth reading.

 

[DeeJay]

Without a doubt my favorite is Jerry "The King" Lawler: It’s Good to be the King ... Sometimes

So many great stories, like with Andy Kaufman and The Dave Letterman show, His early days drawing, his wrestling stories, so many different levels of entertainment. Defiantly worth a read.

 

[KingOfFighters]

mick foley....Have A Nice Day

 

[bigbootydaddyV]

I don't know if Bret Hart's book counts as a "wwe" autobiography, though I think it should. That was just an amazing book, and while I may be biased since Bret was my all time favorite, the book really is amazing. It's well written and covers a great deal of his life and the business in general. It does a good job of showing how life was for wrestlers during the territory system and up in the WWE, as well as Wcw. It's a rather long book, but that's a good thing considering how good it is. Also, it's fun reading a lot of the personal stories he has about a lot of guys who have long since passed away in the wrestling business, and of course, it covers a lot about his own family (a legendary family in the biz). I HIGHLY recommend Bret's book if you haven't read it already.

 

[krazyd]

I have only read a few, mick foley's first one and the rock as well as kurt angle's. I was very young in jr high and do not read often so I must say Kurt Angle's was my favorite. He went through a lot as a child with the passing of his father at a young age. I was a huge kurt angle fan back then so Im sure that helped. but i really enjoyed it

 

[dd23beatlesfan1]

Bret Hart's book is the best wrestling book ever written, yes even better than Mick Foley's first book Have a Nice Day (I'd say it's the 2nd best). Bret Hart's book is so detailed and covers so much ground, it's just so much beyond all the other wrestling books. You can tell that it's all from Bret too unlike other books where you can tell a writer is writing out a wrestler's thoughts. Because his book is much longer than all the WWE-sponsored books, there's more room for more detail. Bret reportedly kept journals and documents of his entire career as it was happening, and it shows in how detailed the book is. It's fascinating, informative, emotional, funny. It's the best book ever written about professional wrestling that I've read (and I have about 20-25 pro-wrestling related books in my collection, not just WWE biographies). You' haven't read a real wrestling book until you pick it up and read it. Trust me, you won't regret it.

All of Mick Foley's and Chris Jericho's books are excellent reads as well. Though Jericho's second book kind of bored me a bit, due to all the Fozzy stories, which I wasn't really interested in honestly. But I'm not really a metalhead, whereas if you are, you'll probably enjoy those parts of the book as well.

I also really enjoyed Ric Flair's, Stone Cold Steve Austin's, and Shawn Michaels' books.

As far as other non-WWE sponsored wrestler biographies (like Bret Hart's), Rowdy Roddy Piper's and Dynamite Kid's books are great reads as well and amongst the best wrestling books ever as well, though they're highly emotional. Dynamite's is particularly troubling as he pulls no punches about the drug use that was rampant in the 1980's, and the dark side of pro wrestling. Bobby Heenan's books are great as well as they are well written and absolutely hilarious.

The least favorite that I read was probably Ted Dibiase's first book as it didn't have much about his wrestling career. Though to be fair that book wasn't written to be a biography of his wrestling career, but about his religious transformation and awakening. If you want to actually read about his wrestling career, pick up his second book which is more interesting (unless you're into Christianity and all that).

 

[Meatsim009]

It's well written and covers a great deal of his life and the business in general. It does a good job of showing how life was for wrestlers during the territory system and up in the WWE, as well as Wcw. It's a rather long book, but that's a good thing considering how good it is. Also, it's fun reading a lot of the personal stories he has about a lot of guys who have long since passed away in the wrestling business, and of course, it covers a lot about his own family (a legendary family in the biz). I HIGHLY recommend Bret's book if you haven't read it already.

I echo this. It was a long read, but the stories were good. As a WWE 'outsider,' at the time, it probably allowed him to say some things that weren't edited out. Lesnar's "Death Clutch" was good, if not a little blunt and seemed to have a rushed finish. I've read Stone Cold's, Rock's, Mick Foley's, Batista's, Chyna's, Goldberg's, Bischoff's, Flair's, et al - mostly under the WWE banner - and I have to wonder whether the "whole" story is told at times. A lot of the behind the scenes stuff at WCW and the earlier territories is covered, but I think there is a rather sanitized approach to what is shared about the "E." I understand that you don't bite the hand that currently feeds you (or may do in the future), so I wonder if that effects what is printed in said biographies.

So, yes, Bret Hart's was a good read. Personally, I am hoping that Undertaker has been putting pen to paper during his current hiatus, and is PERSONALLY working on a no-holds-barred auto-biography of his life as we speak. If it means holding off for a couple of years after his retirement / induction into HOF to do so, then I think it'd be worth the wait.

 

[Suviluer]

it would have to be "Cheating Death, Stealing Life. The Eddie Guerrero Story" just the preface by VKM and the whole book about his life pretty much until the moment he passed ... the most complete autobiography... and about my favorite wrestler of all time! just honestly that book made me cry... he had fixed his life and buried his demons and what happened its just a trully sad story and i still read it regularly... it just inspires me!

just my 2 cents

 

[Meatsim009]

it would have to be "Cheating Death, Stealing Life. The Eddie Guerrero Story" just the preface by VKM and the whole book about his life pretty much until the moment he passed ... the most complete autobiography... and about my favorite wrestler of all time! just honestly that book made me cry... he had fixed his life and buried his demons and what happened its just a trully sad story and i still read it regularly... it just inspires me!

just my 2 cents

I would actually love to read this a-b. The change that took place in Eddie's life WAS inspiring. Must keep a look out for it.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Bret Hart's, by a mile.

 

[a0161613]

The books by Bret, Foley and Jericho are all top notch. No coincidence that they weren't published under the WWE name.

I think Edge's book was though and that's the best I've read. The others, by Hogan, Guerrero stank.