Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling

[1.0] "Scott Teal is a decent writer (better than me, anyway) but this book is the absolute pits. First and foremost, it's incredibly repetitive - I got the impression that Anderson either couldn't remember much of his career, or didn't have the guts to discuss it, so instead it's just the same stories over and over about how he loved to "stretch marks" (beat up people who paid him to train them, keeping their money and injuring them badly enough so they wouldn't continue) and why he really, really was an actual tough guy who could honestly have won any match he'd had the of it had been a shoot. Secondly, and on a similar theme, what matters most to Anderson above anything else is physical toughness. Anyone who he deems tougher than him (and really, it's just Lou Thesz, who he mentions over and over again... Pro tip: Read Thesz's book instead, it's far superior) he's obsessed with, and anyone who he thinks is "weaker" (spoiler: everyone else) is worthy only of his contempt. II was looking forward to reading this to understand more about what made Anderson tick but, just like the trainees he fleeced, once he the reader's cash he feels no obligation to share anything. An odious character with a dull and disappointing book. Avoid."