Being a pro wrestler takes talent, guts, and hard work—can Kyle make it to the pros and live the life he wants? Kyle Bailey is a normal high school senior with a secret ambition: to be a wrestling superstar with the WWE. When he hears about a wrestling class at the local gym, he knows this may be his one shot at making his dream come true. The only problem is that no one in his life understands his love of wrestling, so he can’t tell anyone what he’s doing—especially not his grandmother, who has raised him since he was a kid. As Kyle’s talent becomes increasingly apparent, his instructor takes notice and invites him to wrestle in an upcoming professional match. With his newfound success—and his beautiful wrestler girlfriend—Kyle feels like he’s finally exactly where he belongs. But when his grandmother’s health takes a turn for the worse, Kyle is torn between needing to care for her and wanting to follow his dreams. He isn’t ready to give up on being a pro wrestler, but he can’t abandon the woman who has taken care of him his entire life. Headlock is a heartwarming novel about the strength it takes to let go of what you love and the courage it takes to ask for help.

A part of my artwork ""A Year With Picasso"" I wrote ?Revulsion Freed From A Headlock?. This is my response to Pablo Picasso's main surreal play, published in 1945 ?Desire Caught By The Tail?. As my title suggests, it is an inversion of his work. My methodology in art is to look for what has not been done. And one of the tools I use for this is inversion. For instance, in my paintings I looked at Picasso and Braque's Cubism (with its straight lines and angles) and created my own Curveism. My inversion of script in this play also involves creative choices that are not always a precise inversion. This is to make the text flow more successfully. And I also change some aspects to give them a 21st century relevance. I hope that you will find the result interesting, and in places extraordinary.

A unique and engaging tale that imagines a world of epic fantasy where titans beat the hell out of each other amidst roaring crowds. With characters inspired by classic wrestlers and landshaking battles, this book will be a hit with fans of epic fantasy, fans of pro wrestling from the Golden Era and beyond, or simply fans of a great tale.

Expelled from college after beating another wrestler senseless during a match, former wrestling star Odessa Rose parks cars in downtown New York, struggling to control the violent temper that gets him into trouble.

“Current fans and recovering Hulkamaniacs alike should find [Sex, Lies, and Headlocks] as gripping as the Camel Clutch.” —Maxim Sex, Lies, and Headlocks is the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the backstabbing, scandals, and high-stakes gambles that have made wrestling an enduring television phenomenon. The man behind it all is Vince McMahon, a ruthless and entertaining visionary whose professional antics make some of the flamboyant characters in the ring look tame by comparison. Throughout the book, the authors trace McMahon’s rise to power and examine the appeal of the industry’s biggest stars—including Ed “Strangler” Lewis, Gorgeous George, Bruno Sammartino, Ric Flair, and, most recently, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. In doing so, they show us that while WWE stock is traded to the public on Wall Street, wrestling remains a shadowy world guided by a century-old code that stresses secrecy and loyalty. With a new afterword, this is the definitive book about the history of pro wrestling. “Reading this excellent behind-the-scenes look at wrestling promoter McMahon . . . is almost as entertaining and shocking as watching the most extreme antics of McMahon’s comic-book style creations such as Steve Austin and The Rock.” —Publishers Weekly “A quintessentially American success story of a cocky opportunist defying the odds and hitting it big . . . Sparkling cultural history from an author wise enough to let the facts and personalities speak for themselves.”—Kirkus Reviews

My long journey back to competitive wrestling shape in my Late 40s ...It had been 20 years since I won the Division III College New England Championship as a trim 126-pound fifth year senior at nationally ranked Rhode Island College.I had ballooned to almost 200 pounds and fallen out of the kind of extreme athletic shape I had reached in my young 20's. I had a wife and kids, a demanding job and no spare time for myself. So, when I finally crossed that line and exceeded 200 pounds, something inside me snapped and I embarked on a journey of renewal that changed my life.Following is the story of how I took back my body from the ravages of time; how I implemented a six point plan to whip myself into the kind athletic shape I enjoyed in my 20s; how I retrained my body, reawakened my muscles and reworked my way back to the wrestling mat in an unlikely, dream to compete for the USA Wrestling National Championship in my late 40s.Balancing work, family, vacation and time this unique story details how I implemented Step 1: The Food Plan, Step 2: The Measurement Plan, Step 3: The Exercise Plan, Step 4: The Strength Plan, Step 5: The Disclosure Plan and Step 6: The Workout Plan along my journey to push myself toward the stretch goal of competing for a National Championship.