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Quote of the Day – Professional Wrestling
By Zach Arnold | June 7, 2008
Wrestling writer Karl Stern criticizes author Matthew Randazzo V and his new book, Ring of Hell:
My criticism of your book can best be summed up as follows: You had an excellent opportunity to expose the problems within the business, many life threatening. You had a book with wide distribution where you could have championed reforms within the business. You had a chance to expose the many demons the wrestling business is plagued with. Instead you wrote an over-sensationalized book focused on name calling instead of problem solving.
Let’s put things into perspective here… 10 months after WWE was rocked by the Chris Benoit situation, the top three candidates for the Presidency of the United States (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain) had no problem going on WWE’s television show and hamming it up in front of the WWE audience in order to gain votes from ‘working class’ people. These three politicians, mind you, are vying for a position that is often titled “the leader of the free world.”
You’re not going to reform the professional wrestling business by writing a tell-all book. If the meltdown of Chris Benoit didn’t change the business for the better, then a book sure as hell isn’t going to, either.
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