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Les Thatcher and Victor Sosa are back with a super sized edition of Wrestling Weekly featuring Brian Solomon, author of Irresistible Force: The Life and Times of Gorilla Monsoon.
We discussed several things about Gorilla’s early career that weren’t as well known, how close he came to being the principal owner of the WWF, and a number of topics regarding the life of a man who helped define the wrestling fandom of a generation.
Thanks for listening and have a great weekend~!
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More than two decades after releasing his first memoir, Adam Copeland is reportedly working on a follow-up.
First reported Wednesday by PWInsider Elite, their “publishing world” sources indicated the book will be released in October 2026 by HarperCollins. No other details were provided.
Copeland is currently with AEW, but hasn’t appeared on TV since right after September’s All Out, written off in storyline following Beth Copeland taking a spike piledriver from FTR. He has been working on acting roles like the second season of Percy Jackson & The Olympians that debuted last month in addition to a role in The Beekeeper 2 movie.
It would be Copeland’s second book with his first — Adam Copeland on Edge — coming out in 2004 from Simon & Schuster.
The 52-year-old has strongly hinted at his in-ring days coming to an end, saying in January 2024 that he was looking at “a two-year window.” That was before he missed a significant portion of the year with a fractured leg suffered during a cage match against Malakai Black at May 2024’s Double or Nothing.
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The Saturday edition of Wrestling Observer Live is on the air with a preview of tonight’s AEW Collision show and a chat with a wrestling author.
I look at tonight’s show that includes Hangman Page vs. Christopher Daniels in a Texas Death Match, Kazuchika Okada defending the Continental title against Tomohiro Ishii, and more.
Then, we transition to a conversation I had with historian, author, and associate producer on the Mickey Rourke movie ‘The Wrestler’ and the documentary ‘350 Days’ Evan Ginzburg. His new book ‘Wrestling Rings, Blackboards and Movie Sets‘ is available now.
He talks about watching hundreds of WWWF/WWF cards at Madison Square Garden (and the Northeast) and how he became an agent for wrestlers like Johnny Valiant, Nikolai Volkoff, and Johnny and Greg Valentine. Evan also shares stories on the making of ‘The Wrestler,’ his opinions on wrestler pay, ticket prices and modern wrestling. If you like history, this is your show.
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