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Rumble Road: Untold Stories from Outside the Ring
If you think all the WWE drama unfolds inside the ring, then think again...
All-new road trip stories from: Christian, Chris Jericho, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase, R-Truth, Chavo Guerrero, Kofi Kingston, Matt Hardy, Goldust, The Miz, Beth Phoenix, Rey Mysterio, MVP, John Morrison, Mickie James, Santino, Mark Henry, Hornswoggle, William Regal, Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, Maria, Shad, Kane, JTG, Dolph Ziggler, Ezekiel Jackson, Tommy Dreamer, Evan Bourne, IRS, Tyson Kidd, Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, D-LO Brown, Cody Rhodes, and Big Show.
If you liked Are We There Yet? , then you'll love Rumble Road .
All-new road trip stories from: Christian, Chris Jericho, Shelton Benjamin, Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase, R-Truth, Chavo Guerrero, Kofi Kingston, Matt Hardy, Goldust, The Miz, Beth Phoenix, Rey Mysterio, MVP, John Morrison, Mickie James, Santino, Mark Henry, Hornswoggle, William Regal, Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, Maria, Shad, Kane, JTG, Dolph Ziggler, Ezekiel Jackson, Tommy Dreamer, Evan Bourne, IRS, Tyson Kidd, Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, D-LO Brown, Cody Rhodes, and Big Show.
If you liked Are We There Yet? , then you'll love Rumble Road .
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208 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2010
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About the author
Jon Robinson
8 books38 followersJon Robinson is an award-winning author and journalist whose work has appeared across media including ESPN, Sports Illustrated, GamePro, and IGN.com. He has written eight books, including Rumble Road, The Attitude Era, NXT: The Future is Now, and Creating the Mania. His book, The Ultimate Warrior: A Life Lived Forever won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography. His first YA novel, Sunshine and the Full Moon is set to release June 2021.
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July 26, 2023
A short and sweet sequel to the Are We There Yet? book, filled with accounts of road stories. This is a quick read at less than 200 pages and has stories told by many WWE stars at the time (2010) - Kofi Kingston, MVP, Hornswoggle, The Miz, etc. There isn't a lot to discuss here - you're getting exactly what you're promised, some very fun tales from the road, stories of bad hotels and cheap food, classic rib stories, and more.
June 1, 2023
This was such a fun read. I always like books that "pull back the curtain" and show the other side of what you see on TV. The stories of the ribs the wrestlers pull on each other are funny and, as an added bonus, not a single one involved poop (pretty much every wrestling book I've read before this one had poop-centric ribs). As a fan of "The Edge and Christian Show That Reeks of Awesomeness", the stories from Christian and Tommy Dreamer were my favorites (along with the Miz...I love the Miz).
March 4, 2017
What fans see IN the ring is nothing compared to some of the antics OUTSIDE the ring. Although my days of running the roads with wrestlers are long over, it was fun to read the stories in this book and remember things I've seen and done. From travel woes (how on earth did some of them find places before GPS?) to pranks pulled (ask Chris Jericho about his deaf Fozzy fan), this collection covers everything and then some.
True story: In the early 90's, My friends and I were hanging out with some then-WCW wrestlers who invited us to come to the next show in Roanoke, VA. (We were at a show in Winston-Salem NC at the time) We got directions and drove up- it took about 90 minutes. 7 hours later the frantic show promoter comes knocking on our hotel room door. It seems he'd gotten a phone call from the guy I was dating. He & his tag team partner D were riding with another wrestler, Steve. My guy, M, & Steve had fallen asleep, leaving D to drive. D had the attention span of a gnat and no sense of direction, so of course he had taken a wrong turn. The others were asleep, and he left them that way thinking he'd figure out how to get back to where they were supposed to be. He didn't. M woke up at some point several HOURS (and miles) later, looked out the car window, and shrieked "Where the HELL are we?!?" Steve woke up when M started yelling, and they convinced D to pull over at the next gas station. They were in Charleston WV. M refused to get back in the car with them- I had to drive from Roanoke to Charleston and get him. The other 2 waited for me to get there and followed me back. We barely made it to the show on time. Needless to say, D wasn't allowed to drive again for a LOOOONG time. I hadn't planned on going on the rest of that scheduled run with M (they had 3 more shows in VA & MD), but he begged me to stay and drive them. Since I was between jobs at that time anyway, I agreed. There are several more stories from that trip (ask me about Space Mountain sometime), but those will just keep until I write my OWN book. LOL
True story: In the early 90's, My friends and I were hanging out with some then-WCW wrestlers who invited us to come to the next show in Roanoke, VA. (We were at a show in Winston-Salem NC at the time) We got directions and drove up- it took about 90 minutes. 7 hours later the frantic show promoter comes knocking on our hotel room door. It seems he'd gotten a phone call from the guy I was dating. He & his tag team partner D were riding with another wrestler, Steve. My guy, M, & Steve had fallen asleep, leaving D to drive. D had the attention span of a gnat and no sense of direction, so of course he had taken a wrong turn. The others were asleep, and he left them that way thinking he'd figure out how to get back to where they were supposed to be. He didn't. M woke up at some point several HOURS (and miles) later, looked out the car window, and shrieked "Where the HELL are we?!?" Steve woke up when M started yelling, and they convinced D to pull over at the next gas station. They were in Charleston WV. M refused to get back in the car with them- I had to drive from Roanoke to Charleston and get him. The other 2 waited for me to get there and followed me back. We barely made it to the show on time. Needless to say, D wasn't allowed to drive again for a LOOOONG time. I hadn't planned on going on the rest of that scheduled run with M (they had 3 more shows in VA & MD), but he begged me to stay and drive them. Since I was between jobs at that time anyway, I agreed. There are several more stories from that trip (ask me about Space Mountain sometime), but those will just keep until I write my OWN book. LOL
December 28, 2013
WWE Superstars and Divas tell the stories of bouncing from one town to another, one show to the next and the experiences along the way in "Rumble Road". WWE stars tell funny stories (Ric Flair out in the desert with his white suit covered in red soot) not so funny ones (Shad Gaspard's confrontation with a police officer) and some genuinely scary (2 WWE divas and their car stranded out in the snow in the middle of the night) "Rumble Road" also gives the reader the experience of what it's like to sleep in cheap motels, the pranks played on one another, what dining options are available (think outside the box on this one) and sometimes just having to put up with one another (the Bella Twins at a Wisconsin casino is a good one!) "Rumble Road" is fun, easy read which may give the reader a new respect for the men and women's sacrifices of comfort all in the name of entertainment.
November 22, 2010
Rumble Road offers fans a glimpse inside the lives of WWE Superstars on the road. From pranks to travel mishaps to roadside catastrophes, WWE Superstars share their experiences in what some of them refer to as their "real jobs": traveling.
The book was good but faulted. While it had many entertaining and funny stories, there were also a few boring, pointless stories which probably should have been cut. It was also too short. I read it in about three hours on Kindle, which makes the digital price a little steep (Bret Hart's autobiography was the same price and it took me about 15 hours to finish).
Despite its shortcomings, Rumble Road is an entertaining collection of road stories that will make fans laugh and appreciate what it means to be a WWE Superstar.
The book was good but faulted. While it had many entertaining and funny stories, there were also a few boring, pointless stories which probably should have been cut. It was also too short. I read it in about three hours on Kindle, which makes the digital price a little steep (Bret Hart's autobiography was the same price and it took me about 15 hours to finish).
Despite its shortcomings, Rumble Road is an entertaining collection of road stories that will make fans laugh and appreciate what it means to be a WWE Superstar.
December 8, 2014
No-brainer-Sunday-reading #2:
Pro wrestling is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not sure how heavily edited this book is, but even if half is true, it is still an interesting read.
Pro wrestling is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not sure how heavily edited this book is, but even if half is true, it is still an interesting read.
December 21, 2017
A poor and somewhat edulcorated version of the " Are We There Yet? " book. It looks more than a pitch to the other publication than autonomous one by itself; some stories are coherent with their chapter and really fun, other are just WWE superstar's rhetorical waste of time (like many of the workers in it).
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