Bøker av Ian Douglass

"Best of the Best" Selection - Pro Wrestling Torch 2023 Finalist for "Best Pro Wrestling Book" - The Wrestling Observer Before Steve Keirn became one of the most influential trainers in professional wrestling history, he had a one-of-a-kind wrestling career that stretched around the pro wrestling world. Keirn Chronicles Volume One: The Fabulous Wrestling Life of Steve Keirn is the story of a young man who appeared to have lost his father to war at a delicate age, and his subsequent quest to find a suitable father figure led him into a lifelong career in the professional wrestling industry. Keirn became one of the signature faces of Florida wrestling before evolving into one of wrestling's most irrefutable trendsetters during his time as one half of the pioneering Mid-American tag team known as The Fabulous Ones! Keirn withholds no details with respect to everything from his tumultuous childhood and into the first 20 years of his wrestling career. Over the course of more than 400 pages, Keirn elaborates on his interactions and relationships with dozens of legendary professional wrestling figures, including Eddie Graham, Mike Graham, Jack Brisco, Gerald Brisco, Hulk Hogan, Dusty Rhodes, Dick Slater, Paul Orndorff, Hiro Matsuda, Jimmy Garvin, Ronnie Garvin, Pat Patterson, Ricky Gibson, Tiger Conway Jr., Wahoo McDaniel, Stan Lane, Jerry Jarrett, Jerry Lawler, Koko B. Ware, The Fabulous Fargos, The Road Warriors, The Moondogs, The Sheepherders, Bob Backlund, Tatsumi Fujinami, Antonio Inoki, Gene Kiniski, Dick the Bruiser, Giant Baba, Ken Patera, Masa Saito, Brian Blair, Andre the Giant, and many more! This is the backstory behind one of the most unheralded influencers in professional wrestling history!

Winner of the 2022 Commissioner's Choice Award from the Pro Wrestling Authors Hall of Fame. Spanning 60 years and covering professional wrestling events that took place on both land and sea, this book includes original input and interviews from more than 40 wrestlers, writers, and other noteworthy individuals who played meaningful roles in the progression of the professional wrestling history of the Bahamas. Interviewed wrestlers include Dory Funk Jr., Steve Keirn, Kevin Sullivan, Brian Blair, Joe Malenko, Princess Victoria, Mike Rotunda, Jimmy Garvin, Silas Young, Adam Page, and even Bahamian wrestling stars and legends like "The Sensational Bahamian Grappler" Arnsel Johnson and Omar Amir.