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Shaggy
07-17-2007, 12:08 AM
ECW Press Announces CHRIS AND NANCY by Irvin Muchnick, Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide, for 2008 Publication
July 16, 2007 - ECW Press announced today that it has signed author Irvin Muchnick to write a book about the sensational case of wrestler Chris Benoit.
The book, entitled CHRIS AND NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death, will be published in 2008.
Muchnick is author of the hot-selling ECW Press book, WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (site: http://wrestlingbabylon.com; blog: http://muchnick.net/babylon, and has appeared extensively in media coverage of the Benoit case. The appendix of WRESTLING BABYLON documents the premature deaths of nearly 100 wrestlers over the last generation from drugs and related aspects of the pro wrestling lifestyle. That information has been cited both by commentators and by a member of Congress urging investigation of the billion-dollar pro wrestling industry.
Michael Holmes, senior editor of ECW Press, said: „We are delighted to be publishing what certainly will be the most authoritative and best-written full-length account of the Benoit tragedy and its implications. Irv Muchnick's WRESTLING BABYLON is both one of the most important and one of the most commercially successful books in our company's history. We expect CHRIS AND NANCY to break more new ground.‰
ECW Press (site: http://ecwpress.com) was recently recognized by Publishers Weekly as one of North America's fastest growing and most diversified independent publishers.
Information about and updates on CHRIS AND NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death can be followed at http://benoitbook.com.
McLegend
07-17-2007, 12:15 AM
We all know there is gonna be a bad made for TV movie about this whole thing in the near future too.
Corkscrewed
07-17-2007, 12:24 AM
Michael Holmes, senior editor of ECW Press, said: „We are delighted to be publishing what certainly will be the most authoritative and best-written full-length account of the Benoit tragedy and its implications. Irv Muchnick's WRESTLING BABYLON is both one of the most important and one of the most commercially successful books in our company's history. We expect CHRIS AND NANCY to break more new ground.‰
A tad soon to start blatantly publicizing with such carefree zeal, eh?
(The tone is what throws me more than anything.)
Mercury Bullet
07-17-2007, 12:28 AM
Not suprised
Savio
07-17-2007, 12:33 AM
We all know there is gonna be a bad made for TV movie about this whole thing in the near future too.most likely on lifetime.
Vastardikai
07-17-2007, 01:16 AM
Can we at least wait until the bodies are cold in the ground first before we start exploiting their memory for cash? :mad:
Linkbowler
07-17-2007, 01:27 AM
We all know there is gonna be a bad made for TV movie about this whole thing in the near future too.
Probably a "Ripped from the Headlines" Law & Order episode also.
Theo Dious
07-17-2007, 10:16 AM
...wait... ECW press? WTF is that?
BigDaddyCool
07-17-2007, 10:29 AM
I read the title to this thread wrong, and thought you were asking us to create fantasy bookings for the benoit tragidy. I'm dissapointed now.
BigDaddyCool
07-17-2007, 10:31 AM
...wait... ECW press? WTF is that?
ECW press is a publisher that does lots of wrestlings and sports biographies. They brought us Wrestlecrap, The Death of WCW, Chris Jericho's book about spandex or whatever, and a handful of others. They are reconizable because every cover has 4 pictures on them.
Kane Knight
07-17-2007, 11:20 AM
most likely on lifetime.
Naw. In a lifetime movie, Nancy would have bought a shogun, saved Daniel in the nick of time, and made Chris tap to his own finishing move.
Also, Benoit would have raped her in the WWE's ring live during the draft, and the entire audience (All male, obviously) would have cheered it on.
Theo Dious
07-17-2007, 11:28 AM
ECW press is a publisher that does lots of wrestlings and sports biographies. They brought us Wrestlecrap, The Death of WCW, Chris Jericho's book about spandex or whatever, and a handful of others. They are reconizable because every cover has 4 pictures on them.
...and WWE is ok with them calling themselves ECW?
Theo Dious
07-17-2007, 11:41 AM
Naw. In a lifetime movie, Nancy would have bought a shogun, saved Daniel in the nick of time, and made Chris tap to his own finishing move.
Also, Benoit would have raped her in the WWE's ring live during the draft, and the entire audience (All male, obviously) would have cheered it on.
No, there would have been some metrosexual weenies in the crowd who tried to help, only to be beaten into the ground by drunken shirtless hillbillies.
Kane Knight
07-17-2007, 11:42 AM
No, there would have been some metrosexual weenies in the crowd who tried to help, only to be beaten into the ground by drunken shirtless hillbillies.
And then raped, Brokeback_Style.
Theo Dious
07-17-2007, 11:46 AM
And then raped, Ned_Beatty_Style.
It's funnier that way.
St. Jimmy
07-17-2007, 11:57 AM
Can we at least wait until the bodies are cold in the ground first before we start exploiting their memory for cash? :mad:
It's been 3 weeks, they're pretty fucking cold.
Kane Knight
07-17-2007, 12:02 PM
It's funnier that way.
Yeah, but I think in this day and age, fewer people will get it.
FourFifty
07-17-2007, 12:48 PM
And yet somehow nobody cares.
chrisat928
07-17-2007, 12:54 PM
"True story?"
:rofl:
Kane Knight
07-17-2007, 01:27 PM
"True story?"
:rofl:
This is the TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE Story of when the Miz "Hung out" with the Benoit family.
FourFifty
07-17-2007, 03:09 PM
HOO-RAH!
TerranRich
07-17-2007, 05:26 PM
We all know there is gonna be a bad made for TV movie about this whole thing in the near future too.
Starring... STUNT GRANNY.
Vastardikai
07-17-2007, 05:34 PM
^
Does she wink after getting strangled? :shifty:
I'm going to hell.
Amaroqwolf
07-17-2007, 05:45 PM
Dude didn't you know, were all going to hell!! (grins)
Shadow
07-17-2007, 05:45 PM
In a handbasket!
Amaroqwolf
07-17-2007, 05:46 PM
Don't make me come over there and stab you with a stick Shadow!!
Shadow
07-17-2007, 05:46 PM
At least that'll get your fat ass off the god damn couch.
Amaroqwolf
07-17-2007, 05:46 PM
Fuck you and the Plane you flew in on!!
KayfabeMan
07-17-2007, 06:32 PM
If there was a TV movie, I'd cast Shannon Doherty as Woman.
KingofOldSchool
07-17-2007, 08:39 PM
Mel Gibson can be Chris Benoit
The Naitch
07-17-2007, 09:30 PM
you no good motherfucking piece of shit!@
TerranRich
07-18-2007, 01:53 AM
I'd cast Gerard Butler as Benoit
THIS...IS...CRIPPLAAA!!!! (kick)
Theo Dious
07-18-2007, 10:25 AM
And Michael J Fox as Daniel.
TerranRich
07-18-2007, 01:40 PM
TOO SOON!
Oh wait.
Kane Knight
07-18-2007, 02:30 PM
I'd cast Gerard Butler as Benoit
THIS...IS...CRIPPLAAA!!!! (kick)
Nancy: This is madness.
Benoit: This...Is...GEORGIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *crippler Crossface*
TerranRich
07-19-2007, 12:42 AM
And John Matuszak as Daniel.
Daniel: HEY YOU GUUUUUYYYYYSS!!!
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