Update on my book "Don't Miss This"

If you have ordered my new book you should have gotten an email explaining this but I wanted to update everyone here also. 

There was an error in the original proof of the book. I had to go back an fix it which took some time and also being in the middle of the Holiday Season it has slowed everything down. I'm days if not hours away from sending this book to press. I have extended the offer with the special DVD of the Legends of Kingsport. 

After 20 years of research, interviews, trips to places where the events took place.I'm happy to announce that we are in the final stage before press of my book "Don't Miss This - The history of Pro Wrestling in Kingsport, TN 1960-1969"

THE LOOK OF THE PAGES IN THIS BOOK

I can not tell you how many hours I have spent in local libraries, the number of questions I have asked wrestlers who were here in the 60s, or the hours I spent working on this book in my home office. The closest answer I can give you is countless.

I have to spend time cleaning up every newspaper ad you see. Coming off of microfilm and digital copies of the film left them with black dots all over them. I tried to clean them up the best that I could so you can see facial features and read the ads. I left the ads as close as possible to the size that were when they ran in the paper. I’m the first to admit that I’m not the best. If I had hired a professional to do the clean up work, no one would be able to afford the book!

Before her passing in the early 2000s, Jodie Bass, the widow of famed manager Sam Bass, would come to me at Southern States Wrestling events in Kingsport from time to time. Every time she came, she would always bring one of her scrapbooks for me to look at. These were big thick books full of pictures and clippings. As you turned the pages, you would see her notes sometimes handwritten and sometimes typed notes. She made notes of when the wrestlers had passed, if they had played pro football, other names they may have used, and other things of historical significance.  

I found myself sitting in the back of the Kingsport Armory one night spending over an hour and a half looking at one book. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I have tried to re-create the look of her scrap book with this book. Jodie’s sister ended up living next to my mother. I asked her many times about the books and where they had ended up.  She could not tell me or find out. If anyone knows, please contact me. I hate to think that they are gone forever.

Below is a few pages of the book

The book includes

- Forward by Jim Cornette

- Complete history of Pro Wrestling in the Model City from Carnival At Shows to Smoky Mountain Wrestling

- The fact that Kingsport was it's own booking office separate from Knoxville

- How did Wrestling in Kingsport effect what would become Mid Atlantic Wrestling

- Dozens of rare pictures

- A Look at the arenas in The Kingsport Territory

- A Look at the Kingsport Office and what is in them now

- The weekly line ups that were printed in the papers

- The results that were printed in the papers

-Title Chnges

- Bios on stars like Ron Wright, Whitey Caldwell, Sam Steamboat, Tiny York, Cora Combs, Lou Thesz,and other

- Memories and quotes from men and women who wrestled here 

- What does a convicted murderer who died in a New Jersey prison have to do with Kingsport Wrestling?

- Why was the biggest card of the year held in the summer?

- How was Knoxville and Kingsport Wrestling different at different times of the year?

- How the biggest drawing feud in the history of this region started by accident

- The Legend of Ron Wright's Chisel

- The change in ownership 4 times in a decade. 

- Could a match here in 1966 given birth to the idea of MMA?

- What member of Japanese House of Councillors wrestled in Kingsport?

- How did the most brutal match in East Tennessee history The Chain Match get to Tennessee?

- A letter from a tag team to a famous promoter in the North trying to get booked out of Kingsport

- all of this and much more

This book will entertain and educate you. I hope it gives you a new understanding and appreciation for Pro Wrestling of this era. 

Make your order now at kingofkingsport.com for only $29.95 free shipping inside the USA - Order Now right hand side of this page. Thank You

Some of the rare pictures used in the book