Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling

By: Patrick W. Reed

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling is the story of how professional wrestling evolved from humble roots as a folk sport into an intricate and unique performance art, and a global billion dollar industry. It’s a history that takes in America’s Wild West, the Music Halls of Victorian London, the circuses of P.T. Barnum, the golden age of television, the genesis of Mixed Martial Arts, all the way to the dizzying heights of WWE's Wrestlemania and AEW's All-In. As befitting a story with roots in Vaudeville Theatre, it’s full of twists, turns, surprises, myth-making and half-truths, with walk-on parts from some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment over the last two hundred years, and explains how wrestling went from a carnival con to a billion dollar business.

Cover Art by: Action Figure Cellar (www.actionfigurecellar.com)

Amazing History of pro wrestling bogged down by this disgusting AI narrator slop.

Amazing History of pro wrestling bogged down by this disgusting AI narrator slop. I do recommend this audio book however do to the amazing information. However this is AI narrator sucks. They all suck. This one has a standard British accent that will sometimes malfunction into a borderline Irish, Chicago, or West County accents. Almost no ones name is said right or even consistently wrong. it changes every time it "says" a name.

AI performance ruins experience.

The knowledge that it was an AI reader was a bit unsettling at the beginning, but the story is still engrossing. What ruins the experience is the terrible inaccuracy in pronunciation of so many words that it’s is distracting. Shockingly, it is the title of the book that is often mispronounced, and the pronunciation keeps changing as well. Even if one disagrees with the pronunciation of some words, the fact that they keep changing is at minimum unacceptable.