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WRESTLING BOOKS
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ASSASSIN
The Man Behind the Mask
by Joe Hamilton with Scott Teal
Description: Once again Scott Teal helps another wrestling legend tell his story without the shackles of the WWE breathing down their backs to recreate history in the WWE vision. Joe Hamilton tells his story of his humble beginnings and how he and his brother Larry rose through the ranks of professional wrestling with some humorous and scary details that happened along the way. Joe tells in detail of working MSG very early in his career as he and Larry main evented the most famous wrestling arena in America in the 1950's. Joe tells how it wasn't always big money as he worked the Kansas City circut while starting out. Joe is a rarity in the sport as his wife spent decades at home while Joewas on the road and stuck with him. Joe spends most of the book telling of his travels from territory to Territory as part of the Assassin Tag Team along with Tom Renesto. Their long running feud with the Kentuckians is well documented. Joe is very firm in his belief that they were the top drawing card in whatever promotion they went to. A good detail on the Georgia promotion battle in the early 1970's is covered here. Joe also spends time telling of his own independent promotion and how hard it is to make a go of such an endevor. Joe takes a chapter and lets you know how he feels about a large number of wrestlers and managers and promoters and doesn't pull the punches.
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Rating: 9 out of 10 because Scott once again gets the most history out of the wrestler. The stories keep the reader entertained throughout. At times Joe's ego comes to the forefront and the reader must make up his/her own mind what they think the facts are. I highly reccomend this book for any fan of tag team wrestling, Southern wrestling, masked wrestlers or wrestling history.
Reviewed by Greg Mosorjak on December 29, 2006.
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