The Literary Wrestling Alliance Presents “Pride and Prejudice”

A brief excerpt from my forthcoming wrestling book, on perhaps the greatest one-night exhibition of literary and wrestling talent ever assembled. Also, enjoy the photos:

An Aside on my Ring Walk Music, and How Sweet it IsFor a wrestler, choosing ring-walk music is probably the most important thing in one’s repertoire, besides maybe “gear” (aka clothing). As we all learned in high school music classes, music conveys emotion and stirs reactions in people, therefore, it’s important for a babyface to pick babyfaceish music[1], and for a heel to pick heely music. For example, Vandermolen (heel) chose a song by Motorhead called Ace of Spades, and the Publishers Weekly heel stable will all walk to the ring to Ice, Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice – a double-entendre meant to play upon the fact that Ice plagiarized most of that song from a song by David Bowie. But enough about their music. I chose The Warrior by Patty Smyth and Scandal, which I would characterize as upbeat, guitar-and-drums chick rock in which Smyth sings about “shooting at the walls of heartache,” whatever that means. The Warrior is the kind of song that worms its way into your subconscious, causing you to involuntarily hum or whistle it at random times. It is also quintessentially 80’s and almost always makes the listener feel good, making it the perfect wrestling babyface song. At the risk of patting myself on the back, I received compliments on it all night.
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[1] See also, the section on Hulk Hogan and his I Am a Real American theme song, which sucked but was oddly catchy and played upon the idea that Americans are good and everyone else is bad, which is exactly the idea that all of wrestling played upon throughout most of the 80’s.