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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.

Jun 19, 2024

The written word is back on Awesome Truth! This week, we're talking about the hottest wrestling book of 2024: Becky Lynch: The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl, by the one and only Becky Lynch. How did Becky go from a young Irish upstart to maybe the most popular female wrestler of all time? What was it like...


Sep 14, 2022

Brian Gewirtz, former WWE head writer and current exec at Dwayne Johnson's Seven Bucks Productions, has given us a serious contender for best wrestling book of 2022. In his new autobiography, There's Just One Problem...: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, 7th Most Powerful Person in WWE, Gewirtz provides a uniquely...


Aug 31, 2022

For a while now, The Players' Tribune has been helping athletes speak directly to fans via first-person articles that highlight the ups and downs on the road to fame and glory. This includes professional wrestlers; stars like Sting, Eddie Kingston, Jade Cargill, and even the wife of Brodie Lee/Jon Huber have...


May 25, 2022

From his days as Lord Steven Regal in WCW to his tenure as the beloved commissioner of NXT, William Regal has been a constant in modern pro wrestling. But what makes this beloved Englishman tick? If you aren't aware of his death-defying struggles with drug addiction, 2005's Walking a Golden Mile is the book for you....


Apr 27, 2022

Mick Foley’s first autobiography, Have a Nice Day, was a trailblazer in the world we now know as wrestling literature. Foley’s fourth autobiography, Countdown to Lockdown, is not. In this book, Mick details the events leading up to his TNA Championship win at 2009’s Lockdown PPV against Sting. He also patches...