Okay here’s the bottom line.
If you’ve kept up with my interviews over the years, on this website and on Slam!, there’s nothing new in my latest book. You’ve read it all before.
I say this not to discourage you from buying the book, but just to make you aware. Every story in the book has already appeared online. That’s why I called it Eat Sleep Wrestle REPEAT.
So why put these stories in print, if they’re all available online?
To give them a new life in a new format.
To preserve these stories in print.
To give completists a chance to hold them all in one volume.
Most of all: to give people like me a chance to read them in a real book.
I prefer real books to ebooks. There’s something about reading a physical book that an ebook just can’t replicate. Nobody comes up and asks you, “What are you reading?” when you have a Kindle in your hands. That only happens when you’re holding an actual book.
Every wrestler has a story, and the stories in this book are amazing. There’s a Covid hero in this book, a respiratory nurse who was treating patients before anyone really knew how dangerous it could be. I’m talking, of course, about TikTok star, The Veteran Jack Vaughn.
There’s a doctor of social work (Big Zo), a trans-woman from Appalachia (Kendall Ryann), a classically trained opera singer (Shaloncé Royal), a mother-daughter tag team (Amazing Maria and Haley J), and the youngest, most vascular men in AEW, The Outrunners.
There are memorials to fallen friends, Hurricane JJ Maguire and Sean Patrick O’Brien, as well as a touching story about G. Bill Wolfe, the son of women’s promoter Billy Wolfe. If you want to know what happened to G. Bill post Queen of the Ring, grab the book and a hankie. It’s a tear jerker.
There are not one but two interviews with Cash Flo: one just after the Netflix cameras left town, and one just after his debut on Sylvester Stallone’s series Tulsa King.
And no collection of mine would be complete without Marcus Everett, the most searched-for interview I ever did on this website. You know, he’s that guy. The one from the gif. The one Jim Cornette ripped on Twitter. The guy who jumped off the wall and completely missed that table.
If you don’t want to read it all over again, I understand. If you’d rather hunt them all down online and read them for free, go for it. They’re all still online. For now.
But if you like the satisfaction of holding a real book in your hands, you’re going to find some fun and inspiring stories in the pages of Eat Sleep Wrestle REPEAT.
Pre-order your signed copy now.
