Lords of the Ring
Constable (Verlag)
978-1-4087-2238-1 (ISBN)
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Lords of the Ring holds a mirror up to society and looks at how gender, race, national identity and sexuality has been presented through the lens of professional wrestling. It considers wrestling's relationship with politics including how Donald Trump cultivated a character on the wrestling scene, utilising the live crowds in arenas across America as a dress rehearsal for his presidential run and subsequent persona.
It follows interesting figures inside and outside the ropes, the journalists who report on it and the people in the writer's room - with their stories interweaving and culminating in #SpeakingOut (wrestling's #MeToo movement) and allegations against modern wrestling's founding father, Vince McMahon.
Written as a first-person narrative, in a similar style to the bestselling books of Craig Brown, Jon Ronson, and Louis Theroux, Lords of the Ring takes the reader on my journey through interviews and experiences. This is a book full of affection for wrestling but which also follows the unlikely, unusual, and sometimes dark characters and stories.
In 2017, Dan Bambridge Higgins created and presented a popular 12-part podcast, The World According to Wrestling, about professional wrestling exploring some of the themes touched on in the book (including supporting op-eds in the New Statesman, Independent, and Huff Post). Dan interviewed popular wrestlers who had portrayed stereotypical or controversial characters, WWE wrestlers Paul 'HHH' Levesque, Rikishi, Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle, Donald Trump's WWE writer Court Bauer, prominent wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, Andy Kaufman's best friend and associate Bob Zmuda and wrestlers from Britain's 'golden age' including Klondyke Kate. The World According To Wrestling podcast charted at #1 in the iTunes Film and TV Chart and #5 in the overall chart.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1x8pp colour plates |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4087-2238-0 / 1408722380 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4087-2238-1 / 9781408722381 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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