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# Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** Lion's Pride: The Turbulent History of New Japan Pro Wrestling Kindle Edition by chris charlton
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## Customer Reviews

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    Good New Japan book
  

*by D***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016*

Lion's Pride is the story of New Japan Pro Wrestling.As with a lot of guys my age who were wrestling fans during the 1980s and 1990s, Japanese wrestling always held some mystique. I didn't see a single Japanese wrestling match until the dawn of the internet made it much easier to get tapes and such. Lion's Pride lifts the veil and reveals the inner workings of one of Japan's biggest wrestling organizations.As with all talk of Japanese wrestling, the book starts with Rikidozan and the Japanese Wrestling Association. From there, it follows the career of Antonio Inoki and his formation of New Japan. The many exoduses of talent are covered and New Japans ups and downs are many. Antonio Inoki, like many owner-wrestlers, booked himself over the rest of the talent time and time again. It's a wonder New Japan survived long enough for him to retire.The book talked a lot of the creation of stars like Tatsumi Fujinami and Riki Choshu in the 1980s, Keiji Muto, Masa Chono, and Shinya Hashimoto in the 1990s, and Tanahashi and others for the new millennium. The book concludes in 2015, with the rise of Bullet Club and the launch of New Japan's streaming service.Lion's Pride was really informative, highlighting some backstage stuff I wasn't privy to and expanding on a lot of things I'd only read about on Wikipedia. The writing was pretty good for a book of this type. I did think the organization was a little weird, deviating from the main narrative to talk about completely unrelated things. For the most part, however, the book did what it set out to do.

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    A Great Look at the History of New Japan
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2018*

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to know the deep history of wrestling in Japan, especially on the development of New Japan Pro Wrestling. The author does a great job laying the groundwork for what led to today's product. Without spoiling the book, there is attention given to failed experiments in the product, the positives and negatives of Antonio Inoki's approach as leader of the company, the various periods of success and failure of the company in general, and detail of information about the stars of the promotion (such as Inoki, Liger, Chono, Nakamura, Tanahashi, and many others). If you are a wrestling fan or are intrigued by the business practices that make or break a company, this is a great book. I just pre-ordered Charlton's new book Eggshells because of how great this book is.

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    Very informative and a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for NJPW World Subscribers
  

*by O***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2018*

After having recently started following NJPW I was really interested in finding out some more of the history of the company that I might've missed. This book does a great great job of providing details for a lot of points in the NJPW history and getting an idea how the course that the company went through.Unexpectedly though, this book has become a terrific supplemental resource for the NJPW World streaming service. It has really helped me get the most out of the subscription and giving context to older wrestlers and matches that were a part of the history of NJPW that you might otherwise miss when you are only watching the most current events in NJPW.

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