2007: Wrestling Babylon

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“In Wrestling Babylon, journalist Irvin Muchnick delves into the shadowy intersections of fame, tragedy, and the corporate maneuvers behind professional wrestling’s transformation. Although short, this book reprints Muchnick’s best reporting from the early 1990s, pulling back the curtain on the sport's ascendance to cultural mainstay, revealing a disturbing underbelly of drugs, sex, and death that both mirrors and distorts the American spectacle of entertainment. At the time when these pieces were originally published, only Muchnick and Dave Meltzer were really hammering the industry like this.” - Oliver Lee Bateman