Simon & Schuster

A new book paints a picture of 40 years of wrestling history — as seen through the eyes of one of its most successful and beloved stars, Gorilla Monsoon, who went from wrestler to commentator to the fictional president of wrestling’s largest franchise. WSHU’s Davis Dunavin sat down with the author, wrestling historian Brian Solomon.

WSHU: So you're not only a wrestling historian and a former writer for WWF magazine, right? You're also just a lifelong wrestling fan. So I wanted to start by asking, what is your first memory of this wrestler named Gorilla Monsoon?

BS: I think my first memory of Gorilla Monsoon would be similar to a lot of people who, like me, started watching the WWF in the '80s, during that whole era of Hulk Hogan and Wrestlemania. At that time, he was

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