A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex
by Chris Jericho
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Author: Chris JerichoEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 044669861X
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Reviews of A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex
Book Review: Very Good Read
Summary: 4 Stars
If you notice that so many wrestling autobiographies are published by the WWE it makes you wonder how much is real and how much is 21st century kayfabe?
Chris Jericho's book is not published by the WWE and I'd like to think he was more honest in his story and while I think he is truly a decent guy with a good form of self deprecating humor, I always got the feeling while reading this book, that maybe he was worried about burning bridges?
He laughs and makes fun of himself, going from his late in life loss of virginity to how he was almost murdered in Mexico by a femme fatal and her boyfriend who suckered him into going someplace and then robbing him at gun point and leaving him there.
He talks of his days working at the Hart dungeon with people like Lance Storm and Chris Benoit. His work in small time promotions in Canada and parts of the US.
The time he spent in WCW with people like Eric Bischoff who thought he was too small to be a champion and his subsequent time in the WWE where he did become champion.
He talks of his time Japan and Mexico, and while I belive he is honest to a degree, we never really hear of the bad things that he must have known about but has refused to discuss.
This book was written and published at a time that Jericho was out of wrestling and he gives the reader the impression that at least when this book was being written, he was done with the business and had moved onto other things and was now a husband and father.
Still I was not surprised when he returned to the WWE not too long after this book was published and I think his omission of anything nasty pointing that way was intentional. He talks about the death of Owen Hart, but does not really come down on the WWE.
At the very end of the book he does give us a list of professional wrestlers who have died before their time, in what I believe was an attempt to at least show that what he does for a living, while being a fantasy to those who watch it, is more than real to those in the business and some have paid a terrible price for it.
This book was written before Chris Benoit killed his wife and son and then himself. I've read that Jericho will have a new book out soon that deals with that chapter of his life. My only concern is that if the book is a WWE published book, the truth will NOT be there.
Summary of A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex
A New York Times bestseller, WWE World Champion Chris Jericho's autobiography charts his path from small-town Canadian kid to big time World Wrestling Federation star.Chris is the first undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the WWE and WCW, and has been named one of the fifty greatest wrestlers of all time. In A Lion's Tale, he dishes the dirt on how he worked his way through the ranks alongside major wrestling stars like Lance Storm to become a major superstar.
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