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Welcome to Awesome Truth, a wrestling book club in podcast form. Every episode, your hosts Steve Cimino and Walt Schwenk will dissect a documentary or a piece of wrestling literature. From autobiographies to exposés, WWF to WCW to WWE, it's an in-depth look at pro wrestling's best stories.

Oct 24, 2018

From Frank Gotch and Ed "Strangler" Lewis to Giant Baba, El Santo, and Vince McMahon's modern-day WWE, the history of pro wrestling is colorful, detailed, and always fascinating. So it makes a surprising amount of sense that The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling would be the best way to tell the story of the...


Oct 10, 2018

One episode about NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW just wasn't enough! After talking to Guy Evans and reading his 590-page WCW retrospective, we're back to discuss what made World Championship Wrestling special and what ultimately killed it. Do we blame Eric Bischoff? Vince Russo?...