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If I were J*m Sm*llman, I wouldn't bring up being a stand-up comedian nearly as often as he does in his book, considering two chapters in every single joke has been awful.
The joke in question is not *nearly* funny, or clever, enough to warrant this smug footnote. And if the footnote is meant to be sarcastic and the joke neither funny nor clever, it still doesn't work, because the joke isn't measurably any worse than any other thus far.
No, he wasn't.
The same Billy Graham who - admittedly after this book was first published - in his own words "strongly urged" Kofi Kingston to take steroids after his WWE Title win. Great lengths.
Within a page of each other, he just did the early-00s IWC special of "actually Hogan was pretty good in Japan", and then described Roddy Piper as "a Scotsman who moved to Canada as a child" - a kayfabe biography that even Piper himself hadn't tried to keep up for decades.
He does a list of his top ten favourite female wrestlers, which mysteriously fails to include his All-Time Dream Booking, Meiko Satomura.
In the "rest of the world" chapter he manages to twice misspell "Billy Riley", and repeats the bullshit allegation that Kimura had anything to do with the murder of Rikidozan. The overviews of Japanese and Mexican wrestling history aren't much more than Wiki entries.
he makes a point of talking about how underrated Gary Hart is, and how he doesn't get the kind of credit that Bobby Heenan does for being an all-time great manager.
Earlier in the book, Gary Hart doesn't make it into his top ten managers.
Earlier in the book, Gary Hart doesn't make it into his top ten managers.
He claims that Shawn Michaels superkicked Marty Jannetty through a pane of glass, which you could disprove by, oh I don't know, simply *watching* one of the most famous, oft-replayed WWF angles of all time?
Rock & roll Jim talks about how great Jericho parodying Goldberg's entrance was, yet doesn't seem to realise it's a Spinal Tap reference. He lists Booker T alongside Jericho, Guerrero et al as someone WCW didn't see as main event talent. That'd be Starrcade main eventer Booker T.
