Experienced wrestling journalist Oliver Hurley, a regular contributor to Power Slam magazine, has scoured 100 years' worth of mat mayhem to reveal the pseudo-sport's oddest bouts, from the contest in which a tag team lost their championship belts six days before they won them, to the match that took place in an exploding swimming pool. There are - Includes 50 candid shots from the world's foremost wrestling photographers, and a cast that includes Hulk Hogan, Kendo Nagasaki, Muhammad Ali, a wrestling robot and a monkey. With revealing interviews with the sport's stars from the past and present and a breadth of coverage, from present-day WWE to old-school British wrestling, this book goes beyond the accepted canon of headlock history to celebrate the grap game at its very strangest, and will appeal to a wide range of wrestling fans.