{"id":21979,"date":"2019-04-28T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21979"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:48:58","slug":"jim-cornette-presents-behind-the-curtain-real-pro-wrestling-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21979","title":{"rendered":"Jim Cornette Presents Behind the Curtain: Real Pro Wrestling Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z042819cornette_behindthecurtain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">I&#8217;m really enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21954\">the<em>\u00a0Dark Side of the Ring<\/em><\/a> series airing on Viceland.\u00a0 Three episodes in and I remain impressed.\u00a0 The series interviews the wrestlers, referees and behind-the-scenes folks that were actually involved in the events that each episode covers.\u00a0 If you have any interest in the business of old school professional wrestling, then <em>The Dark Side of the Ring<\/em> is worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">If you&#8217;ve read this far, you also might be interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1684054923?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1684054923\">Jim Cornette Presents Behind the Curtain: Real Pro Wrestling Stories<\/a>.\u00a0 Written by Cornette with an assist from Brandon Easton and art by Denis Medri,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1684054923?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1684054923\">Jim Cornette Presents Behind the Curtain: Real Pro Wrestling Stories<\/a> is&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\">A true-story style anthology, these insider tales will show the lengths that wrestlers went to uphold &#8220;kayfabe&#8221; (the old carny term for the presentation of legitimate conflict) as well as the noteworthy cultural, racial, and economic effects these events and characters had on society. This is the graphic novel that old school wrestling fans have been waiting their entire lives for: a no-holds-barred representation of the moments that wrestling insiders couldn&#8217;t talk about for years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Featuring appearances by Ric Flair, Jerry Lawler, Andy Kaufman, Sputnik Monroe, The Sheik, Junkyard Dog, the Fabulous Freebirds, the Midnight Express, Bret Hart, and Shawn Michaels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Behind the Curtain &#8211; Real Pro Wrestling Stories<\/i>\u00a0present three chapters of tales, personally curated by Cornette and adapted by Brandon Easton (<i>M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand<\/i>) and Denis Medri (<i>Red Hood\/Arsenal<\/i>), the award-winning team behind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1941302149?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1941302149\"><i>Andre the Giant: Closer to Heaven<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<center><\/center>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1684054923?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1684054923\">Jim Cornette Presents: Behind the Curtain \u2013 Real Pro Wrestling Stories<\/a> drops on August 6, 2019 and is available for pre-order now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really enjoying the\u00a0Dark Side of the Ring series airing on Viceland.\u00a0 Three episodes in and I remain impressed.\u00a0 The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,56,51,72,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-comics","category-crime","category-history","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21982,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}