Bill Hanstock

Unauthorized. Unrestricted. No holds barred. In We Promised You a Great Main Event, longtime sports journalist Bill Hanstock pulls back the curtain to give a smart fan’s account of WWE and Vince McMahon’s journey to the top. Untangling the truth behind the official WWE storyline, Hanstock does a deep dive into key moments of the company’s history, from the behind-the-scenes drama at the Montreal Screwjob, to the company’s handling of the Jimmy Snuka scandal, to the real story of the Monday Night Wars. WWE is an extraordinary business success and an underappreciated pop cultural phenomenon. While WWE soared to prominence during the Hulk Hogan years, as the stakes grew more and more extreme, wrestlers faced steroid scandals and assault allegations. The whole story is here, good, bad, and ugly, from the heights of iconic cultural moments like Wrestlemania III to the arrival of global superstars like The Rock and John Cena. We Promised You a Great Main Event is an exhaustive, fun account of the McMahon family and WWE’s unprecedented rise. Drawing on a decade of covering wrestling, Bill Hanstock synthesizes insights from historians, journalists, and industry insiders with his own deep research to produce the most up-to-date, entertaining history of WWE available. Full of amazing characters and astonishing stories from the ring to corporate boardrooms, it is a story as audacious as any WWE spectacle.

An Unauthorized WWE History

We Promised You a Great Main Event

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Go further than what you get to see on WWE Network. WWE: Then. Now. Forever. Volume Three brings you back to some of the most shocking moments of WWE’s past! Be there when Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat and Randy “Macho Man” Savage lock horns at Wrestlemania III, watch The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin seek WWE supremacy, and go along for the ride with D-Generation X as they head down South... An all-star team of writers and artists, including Aaron Gillespie (New Challengers), Andy Belanger (Southern Cross), Kendall Goode (Maze Runner: The Death Cure) and Tini Howard (Rick & Morty), take WWE’s greatest hits to comics and invite you to take a peek behind the curtain.

WWE: Then. Now. Forever. Vol. 3

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