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There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. Slobberknocker is the story of how an Oklahoman farm kid with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams became "The Voice of Wrestling" to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world. Jim opens up about his life as an only child on a working farm, who became obsessed with professional wrestling having first seen it on his grandparents' TV.

Not heard of Paul Sykes? Mentioned in the book Legends by Charles Bronson, an A to Z guide of the men Bronson had regarded to be the toughest in Britain. Referring to "Sykesy", Bronson describes him as "a Legend, Born and Bred" and writing: "I first met Sykes in Liverpool in the early 70s and at that time he was probably the fittest Con in Britain. A notorious hard man from Yorkshire, a fighting man in every sense. A lot of people never liked him, perhaps they even feared him but I respected the man for what he stood for."

Le Olimpiadi di Monaco '72 si ricorderanno sempre per l'attentato di Settembre Nero. Se ti concentri riaffiorano personaggi come Olga Korbut, Valerj Borzov, l'URSS che batte per la prima volta la squadra americana a basket e sopra tutti Mark Spitz: sette medaglie per sette record. Ma per lo sport italiano questa olimpiade è degna di essere ricordata per un motivo particolare. Le medaglie olimpiche di Novella Calligaris, le prime mai ottenute da nuotatori italiani nella storia.