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A different kind of story. Mar 01, 2006
By Gary Kolb
This is a different perspective. There is lots of wrestling action. The novel is a comedy, but also a psychodrama. It is an easy book to read and people who don't read many books would enjoy this story.
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A Fun Read - Wrestling at its Highpoint! Jun 15, 2006
By Glenda A Bixler
"Glenda"
Wresting fans will love this book! It is full of descriptive scenes from the ring. Specific holds used by the wrestlers as they are applied are highlighted. And the same old tales about the referee being "faked out" are included! Thomas Edward surely knows wrestling!
Ahhhh, did I tell you that most of the time, the wrestlers are women? As if you didn't know that from the title! But did I tell you that this story is about the first-ever inter-gender wrestling matches that were the talk of the sports world in 1979? Well, let me go on...
Fighting Girls, by Thomas Edward, finally tells the truth about professional wrestling. It is indeed faked! Imagine that! Well, what I didn't know was that there are some wrestlers hired just to lose--they are called jobbers. Now, frankly, I thought that was a bit much to ask! Imagine being hired just so that wrestlers can mangle your body parts, throw you into ring corners, kick you in the stomach (and everywhere else)--you get the idea!
Enter Ken Webb. This guy is so-oo nice... his ring name is Nice Guy Kenny Webb. A promoter suckered him into wrestling. Kenny, being a homosexual, mostly, thought it would be nice to be around and work out with the guys. But the promoters had other plans for Kenny. Kenny was 22 and weighed just 160 pounds--much too small for the men fighting in Atlantic City. So EWA promoters asked him to go in against women. The hype was to give them something they'd never seen before and thus attract larger crowds. Kenny was just who they needed. One thing, though, they didn't know about laws about men hitting women (and didn't want to research them to know the truth), so Kenny was not supposed to respond in kind to the women's actions. You got it, he was to take everything they had without fighting the girls!
Dare I say that Kenny enjoyed being beat up by women? Well, only so far--but until then, we see lots of pain being caused by top women wrestlers. Actually, these scenes are graphically violent, but funny! Since we know that wrestling is fixed, we know that most of what Kenny is going through is acted out between the two wrestlers.
Until the women decided to have grudge matches that were actually against the other women, as to who can get Kenny to "give up."
Why is it funny to read about a guy being beat up in every match? I don't know, it just is! And that tells you that the writer has successfully interjected a great deal of his dry wit throughout his story. I couldn't figure out whether it was a spoof, semi-autobiographical, or just a fictional comedy dreamed up by a great new author, but this book kept me interested from the first to last page.
I remember back then that my brother always wanted to watch wrestling, so, of course, with only one television, we all watched it! My sisters and I declared it was fake; my brother told us to check out the blood and said that was proof it was real. I remember Bruno, Andre the Giant, and other seemingly gentle "good guys" who we always wanted to win. I remember the women's wrestling, the midgets, and the tag teams that always seemed to match two hulks against two "nice-guy `kennies.'" So Fighting Girls brought back a lot of old family memories for me and perhaps it will for you as well. I even "kinda" enjoyed watching wrestling then...until Roller Derby caught my interest! Joan, the Blond Bombshell became my hero(ine)! LOL
Seriously, if you are a wrestling fan, you will enjoy this book. There is a little sexual by-play that requires parental guidance for teens. If this is a first novel for Edward, I hope he will continue writing. His characters were so realistic that you just naturally wanted to boo those women beating up on poor Kenny Webb, the nicest guy in professional wrestling. If this even sounds a "little" interesting to you, I'd call it a "must-read!"
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