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Post by Vegas on Dec 3, 2020 2:10:44 GMT -5
Has anyone else here read or currently reading the Young Bucks book Killing the Business?
This is the book I am currently reading. I have read the first 3 chapters and so far I really like the book.
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Post by Tournament Master on Dec 3, 2020 9:17:53 GMT -5
I have a feel Santa will be bringing this on Christmas for me.
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Post by Travis605 on Dec 3, 2020 9:34:24 GMT -5
I have a feel Santa will be bringing this on Christmas for me. Soooooo you’re saying you’ve been naughty and this is Santa’s way of giving you a lump of coal?! Lol 😉 |
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Post by Tournament Master on Dec 3, 2020 9:39:29 GMT -5
I have a feel Santa will be bringing this on Christmas for me. Soooooo you’re saying you’ve been naughty and this is Santa’s way of giving you a lump of coal?! Lol 😉 very naughty this year. |
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Post by Travis605 on Dec 3, 2020 9:48:09 GMT -5
Soooooo you’re saying you’ve been naughty and this is Santa’s way of giving you a lump of coal?! Lol 😉 very naughty this year. Not lying: I’d love for Corny to read and give a rundown of each chapter and then illustrate for YouTube lol |
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Post by Tournament Master on Dec 3, 2020 10:02:31 GMT -5
Not lying: I’d love for Corny to read and give a rundown of each chapter and then illustrate for YouTube lol I would absolutely listen to that whole series. |
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Post by TTX on Dec 4, 2020 7:47:36 GMT -5
I would totally enjoy that.
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Post by Vegas on Dec 11, 2020 1:20:11 GMT -5
I am now almost halfway through this book and I am really enjoying it. I just read about the Young Bucks officially turning heel at PWG which occurred at Threemendous II which was actually the very first PWG show I ever attended (along with cman and throwingtoasters) back in July 2009. To the surprise of the Bucks, the PWG crowd earlier turned on them at DDT4 two months earlier and they said in their book for Threemendous II they wanted to be heels from now on at PWG but Super Dragon at first did not want to turn them as he thought that was just a one-time fluke crowd reaction. But after the way the crowd treated them again in their match at Threemendous II against 2 Skinny Black Guys (El Generico and Human Tornado,) the Bucks said Super Dragon agreed they would be heels. As I said, Threemendous II was my first-ever PWG show so I had not seen DDT4 2009 and I remember being surprised at the time to see the Young Bucks being booed. For awhile afterward, the Bucks would be heels in PGW but faces everywhere else such as at ROH, DGUSA, and CHIKARA. I thought it was interesting the Bucks said they always went through the Taco Bell drive-thru after a PWG show. I have done the same thing a couple of times in Reseda. On a side note about Taco Bell, if you have not had their new grilled cheese burrito yet then you are simply missing out. I still need to try Taco Bell's new toasted cheddar chalupas. Looking forward to reading the second half of this book! |
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Post by Vegas on Dec 28, 2020 3:36:57 GMT -5
I finished this book this weekend. The Young Bucks are my personal favorite active tag team and this was a really good book.
The way the book is written is Matt and Nick take turns writing each chapter. It talks about how they started off as backyard wrestlers in their homes of Rancho Cucamonga and Hesperia (I actually have to drive through both cities on I-15 when making the drive between Las Vegas and Los Angeles) before getting their first big break at PWG.
The stuff about their time in PWG is probably my favorite as I was in attendance and witnessed much it first hand as they talk about their match against 2 Skinny Black guys that officially turned them heel, their incredible 3 way tag ladder match against Future Shock and Super Smash Brothers at Threemendous III (probably the best tag ladder match I have ever seen live,) and the controversy surrounding their match against the World's Cutest Tag Team at ELEVEN. Some other PWG topics include the formation of Mt. Rushmore and their friendship with Adam Cole.
It is still amazing to read about how badly they were misused in TNA: Max and Jeremy Buck of Generation Me and then they got split up?
There is a chapter called Handshake Gate which discusses the publicized criticism they received from RVD and Booker T. But they were able to survive that and became very successful at selling their merch and extremely popular in Bullet Club in both NJPW and ROH which in turn led to success with Being the Elite which led to All In and the official formation of AEW.
If you like the Young Bucks, I highly recommend their new book.
Now the next wrestling book I am going to read is the book about Buddy Rogers called Master of the Ring. I will probably start it tomorrow night.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2020 4:22:52 GMT -5
Some of the reviews I saw seemed to think there was a heavy undercurrent of arrogance in the book, which I can't say would surprise me at all. If I ever got a copy for free I'd consider reading it, but I've got way, way too many books on the shelf that haven't even been cracked open to let a book by two guys I think are pompous jackasses skip to the head of the line.
Having said that, I would be interested to see if there's any new information about how All In came to be, or the formation of AEW.
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