The PWA HOF strives to recognize all of the most valuable contributions to
professional wrestling's rich literary history. The following books were selected
to receive The Commissioner's Choice Award on the basis of how they have
enriched and deepened the overall quality of pro wrestling's literary content outside of the pursuit of mainstream awareness or affirmation.
Click here to read the selection process for the Commissioner's Choice Award.
Bang Your Head: The Real Story of The Missing Link
Dewey Robertson with Meredith Renwick
(ECW Press)
Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal
Irv Muchnick
(ECW Press)
Masked Decisions: The Triangular Life of Dick 'The Destroyer' 'Doctor X' Beyer
Vincent Evans
(Self-published)
Hacksaw: The Jim Duggan Story
Hacksaw Jim Duggan with Scott E. Williams
(Triumph Books)
Grappler: Memoirs of a Masked Madman
Lynn Denton with Joe Vithayathil
(Self-Published)
Kamala Speaks
James "Kamala" Harris with Kenny Casanova
(Walking On Hot Waffles)
Performance and Professional Wrestling
edited by Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, Claire Warden
(Routledge)
New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist
New Jack with Jason Norman
(McFarland)
Way of the Blade: 100 of the Greatest Bloody Matches in Wrestling History
Phil Schneider
(Hybrid Shoot)
Bahamian Rhapsody: The Unofficial History of Pro Wrestling's Unofficial Territory, 1960 - 2020
Ian Douglass
(Darkstream Press)
Flowers for Adrian: The Life and Death of Adrian Adonis
John Ellul
(Self-Published)
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