Geschrieben von Sally am Samstag, 1 Mai, 2010 | 504 views. |
Eigentlich muss ich mich diesen Monat mit dem Buchkauf ein bisschen zurückhalten…das liebe Geld, ihr wisst schon, aber trotzdem musste ich mir wenigstens zwei Bücher kaufen, vor allem, da ich im Moment zwar in ungelesenen Büchern ertrinke…aber absolut keine Ahnung habe was ich da lesen soll, weil mich von dem riesen SUBhaufen nichts anspricht 
Heartbreak & Triumph von Shawn Michaels
Winning and losing. Heels and babyfaces. Kliqs and Curtain Calls. Tearing down house shows and tearing up hotel rooms. Ladders and cages. Vacated titles and unwarranted suspensions. Works and screwjobs. Heartaches and backbreaks. Forced retirements and redemption. Rock ‘n’ roll and Graceland. There are two sides to every story; for Shawn Michaels, there is Heartbreak & Triumph.
World Wrestling Entertainment fans think they know “The Heartbreak Kid.” He’s “The Showstopper” who pushes his high-flying abilities to the limit. He’s the company’s first “Grand Slam” champion. And of course, he’s forever the guy who conspired with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to screw Bret “Hitman” Hart out of the WWE Championship.
Heartbreak & Triumph introduces us to Michael Shawn Hickenbottom, the youngest of four children whose “really conservative upbringing” made him shy and “afraid that people wouldn’t like me if I showed who I really was.” But upon discovering Southwest Championship Wrestling (SWCW) one night, Hickenbottom realized instantly what hewanted to become. From there, Hickenbottom fully recounts “Shawn Michaels’s” tutelage under Mexican wrestler Jose Lothario; working matches at Mid-South Wrestling; flying high with Marty Jannetty as “The Midnight Rockers” in the American Wrestling Association (AWA); and how a barroom confrontation almost prevented the tandem from ever joining the World Wrestling Federation. “The Rockers” would climb to the top of World Wrestling Entertainment’s tag-team division in the late 1980s.
Heartbreak & Triumph tells what dissolved Michaels’s partnership with Jannetty and started his transformation into “The Heartbreak Kid.” You’ll learn firsthand of the “unfair” allegation that brought about HBK’s classic Ladder match with Razor Ramon at WrestleMania X; the incident in Syracuse that set the stage for Shawn’s unbelievable “comeback” victories at Royal Rumble 1996, and in the Iron Man WWE Championship match with Bret Hart at WrestleMania XII; and how his escalating backstage feud with Hart inadvertently built toward the formation of “D-Generation X,” as well as the first-ever “Hell in a Cell” contest against Undertaker.
Beyond the squared circle, Michaels clears the air about his days running with “The Kliq” — Kevin Nash (“Diesel”), Scott Hall (“Razor Ramon”), Paul Levesque (“Triple H”), and Sean Waltman (“The 1-2-3 Kid”) — their contributions to WWE’s wildly successful “Attitude” era, and the consequences of their uncharacteristic Madison Square Garden “Curtain Call” in May 1996. And for the first time anywhere, Michaels shoots completely straight about his role in “the biggest scandal in wrestling history,” the infamous “Montreal screwjob” at Survivor Series 1997.
While reliving the crippling back injury that forced him to retire in his prime following his WWE Championship loss at WrestleMania XIV, Michaels credits the new loves in his life — his second wife Rebecca, his children, and his newfound faith — with giving him the strength to kick his habit, recover physically, and make a jubilant return to the ring at SummerSlam 2002. Now back on top and doing what he enjoys most, the WWE Superstar regards Heartbreak & Triumph as the perfect means “to review my life, and attempt to figure out how I became the person I am.”
ISBN: 978-1416516866
Adam Copeland on Edge von Adam Copeland
His way with words has served Adam Copeland well. It was his writing that opened the doors to his future career as a WWE Superstar, when he won a newspaper essay competition for which his prize included free wrestling training. In 2002, while sidelined with a serious neck injury, he began to write a weekly column for wwe.com, giving fans an insight into the life of one of their favourite performers. It was the fan response to this column that led WWE Books to ask him to write his autobiography. ADAM COPELAND ON EDGE takes the reader inside the world of professional wrestling, a world you can only truly know – and write about – if you have experienced it in the ring. But more than that, this book also takes you inside the mind of one of wrestling’s brightest stars, as with disarming candour he shares his feelings and his reflections, his inspirations, his highs and lows, his goals and ambitions, in thoughtful, articulate detail. You think you know EDGE? Read on and find out…
ISBN: 978-1416511304
Aktuell guck ich ja wieder ziemlich gerne Wrestling (WWE) und was liegt da näher in einer Lesekriese als Biographien von zwei meinen Lieblingswrestlern zu lesen? Ich hab schon ein wenig rumgeblättert und ja, manches scheint ganz interessant zu sein.
. In letzter Zeit habe ich ein paar Bücher gelesen, die ich nicht rezensiert habe, weil 1 Stern einfach zu viel dafür war, deswegen hab ich mich für 0 Sterne entschieden, für ganz schlimme Ausnahmefälle. Man weiss ja nie, was da noch so kommt…