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Apter, Bill

• Publisher: Ecw Press Digital
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781770907522
• Print ISBN:
  9781770411548

Bill Apter fell in love with pro wrestling as a kid and it wasn't long before he was rubbing shoulders with the greats as a reporter and photographer. Since then, he's become the world's best-known wrestling magazine personality, and he's had professional and personal relationships with major personalities like Triple H, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Sting and Ric Flair. In his fun-loving memoir, Apter takes us from the dressing rooms of the Bruno Sammartino era through to today's WWE superstars. His behind-the-scenes stories rival no one else's!

Table of contents

• FOREWORD
• THE DISCLAIMER APTER WAS FORCED TO WRITE
• ONE: IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO START AGAIN
• TWO: ATTACKED!
• THREE: PUBLISHED
• FOUR: MR. WESTON AND ME
• FIVE: HOW APARTMENT WRESTLING NEARLY COST ME MY CAREER
• SIX: A DAY AT THE OFFICE
• SEVEN: APTER’S ONE NIGHT STAND WITH MADUSA
• EIGHT: HOW APTER FOUND OUT BRUNO WAS GOING TO LOSE
• NINE: REVEALED: SOME OF MY SECRET CONTACTS AND HOW RATINGS WERE DONE
• TEN: FINALLY REVEALED: “MY CONFESSION TO A DECEASED WRESTLER!”
• ELEVEN: DID THE GHOST OF CURT HENNIG LEAD APTER TO GEORGE STRAIT?
• TWELVE: THE “SUPERFLY” VOW I MADE TO VINCE McMAHON SR.
• THIRTEEN: CALL THE COPS — APTER’S BLEEDING
• FOURTEEN: “THE DEAD WRESTLER—WHO WAS ALIVE!”
• FIFTEEN: BUDDY ROGERS — I KNEW THEM BOTH
• SIXTEEN: APTER SUFFERS BRUISED RIBS WRESTLING SHAWN MICHAELS
• SEVENTEEN: STALKED
• EIGHTEEN: BISCHOFF DISSES APTER—CALLS HIM A “PARASITE”
• NINETEEN: HOW OHHHH YEAHHHH BECAME A TERRIFYING OHHHH NOOOO!
• TWENTY: WATCHA GONNA DO, BILL APTER, WHEN SYLVESTER STALLONE CALLS YOU
• TWENTY-ONE: SHOOTING PWI COVER #1—A MASK TASK AND AN IMPOSSIBLE “DREAM”
• TWENTY-TWO: THE STUNNING TRUTH ABOUT DAN SHOCKET AND EDDIE ELLNER
• TWENTY-THREE: “I’LL KICK YOUR ASS IF I’M NOT ON THE COVER NEXT MONTH!”
• TWENTY-FOUR: VON ERICH’S FURY CAUSES ANXIOUS DAYS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS
• TWENTY-FIVE: PUNK FAN BOOTED FROM SUNNYSIDE ARENA!
• TWENTY-SIX: APTER HELPS PROMOTER WHO SUCCUMBS TO HIS OWN DEMONS
• TWENTY-SEVEN: APTER’S ASTONISHING NEWS: “I’M LEAVING PWI!”
• TWENTY-EIGHT: 1WRESTLING TO APTER’S RESCUE
• TWENTY-NINE: A POWERFUL LESSON APTER LEARNED FOR TOMORROW
• THIRTY: APTER NEARLY BOOTED OUT DUE TO MAGAZINE’S PAST
• THIRTY-ONE: APTER CLAIMS CARDBOARD GOLD
• THIRTY-TWO: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PWI 500
• THIRTY-THREE: TAKIN’ A LICKIN’ BUT STILL TICKIN’
• THIRTY-FOUR: A “KING” PLUS ANDRE THE GIANT EQUALS BIG TROUBLE WITH VINCE SR.
• THIRTY-FIVE: I WAS A BACKYARD WRESTLER
• THIRTY-SIX: TV TIME
• THIRTY-SEVEN: HIS NAME IS PAUL HEYMAN AND HE WAS A WRESTLING PHOTOGRAPHER
• THIRTY-EIGHT: THE McMAHONS
• THIRTY-NINE: AN APTER “OLD SCHOOL” STYLE -GOSSIP COLUMN
• FORTY: APTER MAKES A HISTORIC MEETING HAPPEN: WHEN ANDY KAUFMAN MET JERRY LAWLER
• FORTY-ONE: MY PAL SAL
• FORTY-TWO: DON’T GET TOO CLOSE—BUT I DID
• FORTY-THREE: STRIKE A POSE
• FORTY-FOUR: BENOIT
• FORTY-FIVE: APTER AND THE ICE-CREAM BOY
• FORTY-SIX: APTER LOSES HIS PRO DEBUT
• FORTY-SEVEN: MEET THE PARENTS
• FORTY-EIGHT: APTER STUNNED BY RECOGNITION OVERSEAS
• FORTY-NINE: WAY BACK WHEN IT ALL BEGAN
• FIFTY: KARAOKE AND A HORRIBLE JOKIE
• FIFTY-ONE: YES, I WAS PAID BY WWF FOR TWO YEARS
• FIFTY-TWO: THE AWARD GOES TO …
• FIFTY-THREE: OTHER CAREERS MIXED IN WITH MY WRESTLING CAREER …
• FIFTY-FOUR: SING ME A SONG, WONDERFUL WILLIE!
• FIFTY-FIVE: APTER SAYS WORK IS A GOOD FOUR-LETTER WORD
• FIFTY-SIX: THE FAMILY
• FIFTY-SEVEN: THE HUNGER FOR YOUNGER AND SOME LAST-MINUTE RANDOM THOUGHTS
• RANDOM “APTER THOUGHTS …”
• BACK-WORD
• PHOTO SECTION
• Copyright