Main Event
Author : Roberta Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Wrestlers
ISBN : 9780803756311
Author : Roberta Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Wrestlers
ISBN : 9780803756311
Author : Brian Shields
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145160467X
Every saturday night in the eighties fans would gather around their television to watch, not Saturday Night Live, but Saturday Night The Main Event. WWE wrestling beat the ratings for the most talked about show on television week after week. Here is that era captured. “Introducing your champion, from Venice Beach, California, at three hundred and three pounds—Hulk Hogan! And his challenger . . .” Hearing those words ring out across the arena meant you were there. It didn't matter if you were there in person, or watching on television or closed circuit. You were in the place where everyone wanted to be. You could feel the crowd; as the tension built, you were swept up and into the action. You knew you were going to witness history. You were experiencing the main event at a live WWE show. It seemed that wrestling had changed overnight, that the men who entered the squared circle were suddenly larger than life. Everyone wanted to see the behemoth Hulk Hogan wrestle. And the men who wrestled with and against him were his equals in creating a match and a character that no one would soon forget: Andre the Giant, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Sgt. Slaughter. They all kept you pinned to your seat as they were pinning their opponents to the mat. You just knew that you were going to see things that no one had ever seen before. The eighties was the era that cemented WWE as the place where the best wrestlers on the planet worked. Main Event -- WWE in the Raging 80s dips into those years and reveals the most celebrated wrestlers and the matches that will be recalled as not just the best of the eighties but the best of the ages.
Author : Patrick Jones
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512458031
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Nothing in wrestling can match the excitement of the main event. It's the match that everyone wants to see, the match that will have fans talking the next day. Author Patrick Jones takes readers deep inside the world of pro wrestling and shows how its stars—and the wild characters they portray—have turned pro wrestling into a billion-dollar industry. Take a seat and gear up for the greatest show in wrestling—the main event!
Author : Paul Linzy Johnson
Publisher : The Main Event
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political crimes and offenses
ISBN : 9780979636202
Author : Richard O. Davies
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0874179386
Richard O. Davies won Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Sports for The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip. Davies' book was chosen as one of the best indie books of 2014. As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting was transforming into the popular sport of boxing, yet simultaneously it was banned as immoral in many locales. Nevada was the first state to legalize it, in 1897, solely to stage the Corbett-Fitzsimmons world heavyweight championship in Carson City. Davies shows that the history of boxing in Nevada is integral to the growth of the sport in America. Promoters such as Tex Rickard brought in fighters like Jack Dempsey to the mining towns of Goldfield and Tonopah and presented the Johnson-Jeffries “Fight of the Century” in Reno in 1910. Prizefights sold tickets, hotel rooms, drinks, meals, and bets on the outcomes. It was boxing\--before gambling, prostitution, and easy divorce\--that first got Nevada called “America’s Disgrace” and the “Sin State.” The Main Event explores how boxing’s growth in Nevada relates to the state’s role as a social and cultural outlier. Starting in the Rat Pack era, organized gambling’s moguls built arenas outside the Vegas casinos to stage championships\--more than two hundred from 1960 to the present. Tourists and players came to see and bet on historic bouts featuring Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, and other legends of the ring. From the celebrated referee Mills Lane to the challenge posed by mixed martial arts in contemporary Las Vegas, the story of boxing in Nevada is a prism for viewing the sport. Davies utilizes primary and secondary sources to analyze how boxing in the Silver State intersects with its tourist economy and libertarian values, paying special attention to issues of race, class, and gender. Written in an engaging style that shifts easily between narrative and analysis, The Main Event will be essential reading for sports fans and historians everywhere.
Author : Terry Daniel
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1615669906
After months of training, J. R. Fox is ready for Loveland's Main Event, the field day fifty-yard dash. Will this be his year to win? Join new author Terry Mark Daniel and a host of J. R.'s friends to cheer him on and see whose perseverance paid off.
Author : Jim Long
Publisher : Catalyst Game Labs
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
ONE MAN, ONE 'MECH... Dispossessed in the battle of Tukayyid, former Com Guard soldier Jeremiah Rose wants nothing more than to strike back at the Clans who destroyed his 'Mech and his career. Dreams of swift vengeance turn to nightmares when every effort he makes to rejoin the fight to protect the citizens of the Inner Sphere is rejected. Forced to win a new BattleMech by fighting on the game world of Solaris VII, Rose recruits other soldiers from the arenas to create a new mercenary unit and take his grudge back to the invaders. Unfortunately, Rose is long on battle experience and desperately short on business skills. Turning a band of mismatched MechWarriors into an elite fighting unit becomes harder than he imagined when Rose is forced to fight his fellow MechWarriors in order to fight the Clans...
Author : Chris St. John
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780449134573
For Kate, the number one rider at Windcroft Stables, newly-arrived society girl Dara, and the still-grieving Jessie, Windcroft provides the forum for friendship and fun.
Author : A. F. Espinosa
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN :
A preliminary report of a series of closely related studies of the destructive Guatemalan earthquake of February 4, 1976.
Author : A. Asaoka
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1997-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080428383
Progressive failure has been a classical problem in the field of geotechnical engineering and has attracted considerable attention in connection with slope stability and foundation problems. It is associated with strain localization or shear banding and is also related to damage in material structures. As knowledge of the progressive failure mechanism increases, it is now necessary to establish effective communications between researchers and engineers. The International Symposium on Deformation and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics provided an opportunity for discussing recent advances in this area. A total of 136 papers were contributed from 22 countries. As well as these, the symposium proceedings also contain 8 interim technical reports on the subject by the members of the Asian Technical Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Japanese Geotechnical Society National Committee on Progressive Failure in Geo-structures.