by R. D. Reynolds, Blade Braxton
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Ever wanted to know the worst career choices pro wrestlers made upon retirement? Or which kung fu chop-socky wrestlers would make Bruce Lee do a backflip in his grave? The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! has all that — and much more. The gloves are off as best-selling author RD Reynolds and his co-author Blade Braxton pull no punches in looking at some of wrestling’s biggest mistakes, most comical mishaps and most egotistical performers. Among the lists included in this cornucopia of wrestling nonsense are: • Sights Wrestling Fans Should Never Be Forced To See Again! • The Greatest Mullets in the History of the Game! • Porn Stars Who Moonlighted in Wrestling! • The Proof that DX is really, REALLY Gay! • The Greatest Mugshots — Featuring Your Favourite Wrestlers! • The Pieces of Definitive Evidence that WCW May Have Been Run By Nazis! • Pro Wrestling’s Stupidest Hometowns! • The Things That Vince McMahon Always Wants to Talk About (Half of Which Involve His Genitalia)! Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the book’s craptastic main event: the 25 Worst Gimmicks of All Time. Irreverent, off-kilter, and certain to be offensive to all, The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! is pro wrestling’s very worst of the worst!
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Some random lists, and very hit and miss humor. Guess which one prevails., 2008-09-03
So I'm not much of a fan of the WrestleCrap website. I find it hard to navigate through, and only really enjoy the "Someone Bought THIS!" section. However, I thought "The Death of WCW" was highly informative, and had great, but never over-the-top, humor.
Then this one I decided would be fun, the sort of thing not to read all in one sitting, but to read out lists and such.
As it turns out, they clearly ran out of list ideas about halfway through, and started throwing random lists together like "TOP WORST MULLETS IN THE BUSINESS" followed by "TOP BEST MULLETS IN THE BUSINESS" and "TOP 25 WORST MOVE NAMES" and "TOP 1 WORST CHAMPIONSHIP SPEECH" random bits that often end up nonsensical, and with really lame "miss" jokes.
Some of the lists are really unimpressive, and all either involve one person, or one event. The most pathetic list in my view was the "TOP 3 OUTFITS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RESERVED FOR HALLOWEEN" and all it consisted of was one event, Wrestlemania 22, and the outfits worn by Rey Mysterio, John Cena, and Triple H. The jokes were terrible, too.
Possibly WrestleCrap's style, any of the funny jokes weren't actually funny, but more of the sort of "Oh, I see, that's kind of amusing", while a solid 50% of them were simply "That was stupid", with most of the rest falling in between those.
The final list involves the "TOP 25 WORST GIMMICKS EVER" and I'd consider it a real disappointment. Most of the gimmicks weren't given any real explanation as to why they are among the "worst", and just about all but a very small portion of them are intensely obscure and esoteric things, like a one-time gimmick from some random jobber in some random independent federation in 1972 that lasted a week. Some older fans might not even get it, so younger fans are completely out of it.
Potentially a spoiler, but the supposed "WORST GIMMICK OF ALL TIME" was "Red Rooster", a gimmick for Terry Taylor in which Bobby Heenan called him a little red rooster one time, and the name stuck, so at Wrestlemania, Taylor spiked his hair, colored it red, and pretended to be a rooster.
Is that it? Seriously? That came above the likes of Cheex (not even mentioned), RoboCop (seriously. Also not even mentioned), Kerwin White (not even mentioned), the Bashams, Gobbledy Gooker (came in number 2), Shockmaster (nowhere near top 10), Yeti, That 70s Guy (not even mentioned), Warrior in WCW, and others.
In all, this book is not comedic, and useful only for learning obscure and esoteric facts such as who was AWA Champion in 1980 or who Bastion Booger is or who was the first and only "World World Tag Team Champion". Not worth half the amount I spent on it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Unfortunately, pass ...., 2008-07-14
Well, let's start by saying that I loved Wrestlecrap's first 2 books. The Death of WCW was one of the most comprehensive, detailed accounts of the meteoric rise and subsequent death of a wrestling company that should have NEVER died.
That being said, this book was a HUGE dissapointment. The thought of a book of lists involving the worst pro wrestling had to offer sounded like tons of fun. Unfortunately, the book is not. It appeared to me, as a previous review pointed out, that most of book seemed like filler. And that filler was neither funny nor clever.
Skip this one. Cross your fingers. Wait for the next one.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Magnificent, 2008-06-28
I loved this book, it's one of the best books I've read. I loved the way R.D. came about this tome. One of the best books when it comes to the worst in wrestling, right next to Wrestlecrap, the book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Another RD Hit, 2008-03-06
This is another great book by the Wrestlecrap people. i hope they keep making these books highlighting the very worst of prowrestling
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A few laughs but generally not recommended, 2008-02-24
I had picked up the previous WrestleCrap books, and am a frequest visitor of the website. The death of WCW book was, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and worthwhile books on wrestling available. Informative, detailed, and well written, it was a thorough analysis of the failure of WCW.
This book, however, is quite the opposite. Of course it is not meant to be a serious book, it is meant to be humorous, but even the humor is rare.
What particularly struck me was the vulgarity (particularly references to female body parts), which seemed completely unnecessary. Though some of the lists were funny (the best mullets list in particular) many of them seemed like filler, others were just infantile and disturbing (though wrestling is often infantile - not to mention disturbing - so maybe I shouldn't be surprised)
Also many things in the book, though likely meant to be humorous, come off as being harsh and mean-spirited.
Probably best to avoid this book.
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