These interviews with more than 30 wrestling performers, conducted between 1992 and 1997, offer firsthand accounts stretching as far back as the 1930s and provide a glimpse into the lives of grapplers and those involved in the industry today. The personalities and their stories are wide-ranging-from announcer Jim Ross and his first job in wrestling doing play-by-play commentary with a blind color announcer to wrestler Sherri Martel and the politics that arose from being a woman performer in the