In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmen's conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry hid their illegal practices from the U.S. Department of Justice until they were caught. The sport that privileged cold hard cash over honest competition was professional wrestling, and the conspirators were members of the famed National Wrestling Alliance. National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling examines the NWA promoters' overwhelming success, and the relationships to influential politicians and writers that protected their financial interests for over 50 years. Breaking the façade of sports production, it shows how promoters actually twisted arms to edge out their opponents. Hornbaker documents the life of the NWA, from its humble beginnings in the Midwest after World War II, to its worldwide expansion. He chronicles the Department of Justice's investigation, providing sports fans with a never-before-told side of wrestling's legacy. The most noteworthy exploits of the National Wrestling Alliance were behind locked doors. Now, the conspiracies of a century-old brand of entertainment will finally be revealed. The untold story of the monopoly that strangled professional wrestling. Timothy Hornbaker has researched professional wrestling for the past 10 years. For this book, he has received assistance from descendants of the National Wrestling Alliance's most famous members. He is an avid baseball fan and lives in Southern Florida. Introduction Foreword 1. The War for New York 2. The McMahon Family 3. The Legend of Toots Mondt 4. Boston Wrestling History 5. Pennsylvania Wrestling History 6. Illinois Wrestling History 7. St. Louis Wrestling History 8. Central States Wrestling History 9. Ohio-Tennessee-Kentucky Wrestling History 10. Canadian Wrestling History 11. Northwestern Wrestling History 12. Southeastern Wrestling History 13. The History of Wrestling in California 14. The Rocky Mountains 15. Wrestling in Michigan and Indiana 16. The Texas Wrestling Scene 17. The Strangler - Ed Lewis 18. The Wisconsin Wonder - Fred Beell 19. The Best of All-Time - Frank Gotch 20. The Golden Greek - Jim Londos 21. The Life and Times of Lou Thesz 22. The Reign of Buddy Rogers 23. The History of the National Wrestling Alliance 24. Women Superstars 25. The Stars of the Last 30 Years Acknowledgements

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