I finished the book.
Chapters summary
1. Discusses being taken to wrestler's Court over Hardcore Holly thinking he was taken bribes from E&C. (5/5)
2. Discusses being a sheltered studious nerd, college life and love for 80's wrestling especially Roddy Piper as a youth
3. Being young and getting an opportunity to produce an MTV segment for HHH, Foley, and Rock for a TRL segment. He leaves Jack in the Box for WWF.
4. 1st day at WWF (11/1/99) meeting everyone etc
5. Bubba Ray & Shane makes Brian take a protected Powerbomb bump before a show to see what the boys go thru since he was just a writer. Talks about the pain but felt the rush.
6. Talks about working with 2000's The Rock and classic promos of his.
(6 way HIAC)
7. Behind the scenes of The XFL 2001
8. Paul Heyman vs Brian...writers collide (Draft 2002)
9. Vince Russo returns to WWE for a cup of coffee
10. Life Lessons Brian learned from Vince McMahon
11. The Katie Vick Incident
12. How Brian pushes for more comedy angles but Vince doesnt think comedy makes money
13. Discusses Rock some more and aspects of Hollywood Rock workin with Austin/Hurricane etc
14. "Roddy Piper returns to WWE 2003 and works with Brian...Roddy and him become friends (RIP)
15. Discusses when sometimes his ideas looked good on paper but fell flat especially the time Goldust put a wig on Goldberg and almost ruined Goldberg tough guy credibility.
16. Discusses all the Guest Host fukkery from 2009
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19."Rock vs Cena" 3 year storyline (well worth the read)
20. Discusses when Brian wrote for Miz to make a Dwayne Wade/Lebron insult in Miami 2010 and Vince felt it was dumb cause WWE fans won't get the reference etc (good one)
21. Brian started to get burnt out with WWE's endless grind. He got into argument with Vince during a meeting but ultimately ended on good terms and left WWE for The Rock's Seven Bucks Productions
He worked for WWE
November 1, 1999
To
June 2015