Tributes II: Remembering More of the Worlds Greatest Wrestlers (Wrestling Observer) by Dave Meltzer

by Dave Meltzer

This detailed chronicle looks at the lives, times, and deaths of the biggest names that the sport of professional wrestling has produced. Picking up where Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Professional Wrestlers left off, author Dave Meltzer focuses on sports entertainment's most recent and high-profile losses, including Road Warrior Hawk, Curt Henning, Elizabeth, Stu Hart, Tim Woods, Davey Boy Smith, Gorilla Monsoon, Terry Gordy, Wahoo McDaniel, Johnny Valentine, The Sheik, Freddie Blassie, and Lou Thesz. Tributes Remembering More of the World's Greatest Wrestler also offers expanded versions of some of the most popular profiles from Tributes, including Owen Hart, and Andre the Giant. Offering candid and detailed accounts of bona fide wrestling legends and a foreword by Bret Hart, Tributes II takes its place among the most important books ever written on the world of pro wrestling.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Sports, History

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2004

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

The follow up to the remarkable "Tributes" is equally good, but a harsh reminder of how quickly many of the greatest wrestling stars pass before their time should expire.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish the editors hadn't edited out some of the dates as to when certain events happened in each wrestler's career/life. I also wish they had left in when and how each one died as some of them had this information taken out. Overall, good collection but anyone who knows how detailed Meltzer gets in his newsletters when a wrestler dies should get the actual newsletter so they don't miss any details.

[Brendan Creecy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a must read for any serious wrestling fan or anyone who wants to know more about the pre-80's history of wrestling. I learned a ton of history and lots of great stories from an era I have always wanted to know more about. My one criticism of Meltzer's writing is that on most of these they end really abruptly and sometimes akwardly. Other than that, fantastic must read.

[Tim Chizmar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Respect Meltzer

[Simen Oem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meltzer's obits remain essential reading for even the most casual fans of the Greatest Thing on Earth.

[Oliver Bateman · Rating 5 out of 5]

the better of the two tributes books by far, as all of the profiles feel like they were written specifically as real, detailed tributes. odd that they included the owen hart and andre the giant obits again (there appear to be some textual changes, like superstar graham remarking on andre's pushing/pulling strength, but it's mostly the same stuff) but I assume meltzer and the publisher figured they'd help move copy (and the great benoit, who would later move a lot of copy, hadn't died yet).