Too Sweet

Inside the Indie Wrestling Revolution

De: Keith Elliot Greenberg

Narrado por: Danny Campbell

The first and only in-depth look at the indie wrestling revolution

In 2017, after being told that no independent wrestling group could draw a crowd of more than 10,000, a group of wrestlers took up the challenge. For several years, these gladiators had been performing in front of rabid crowds and understood the hunger for wrestling that was different from the TV-slick product. In September 2018, they had the numbers to prove it: 11,263 fans filled the Sears Center Arena for the All In pay-per-view event, ushering in a new era. A year later, WWE had its first major head-to-head competitor in nearly two decades when All Elite Wrestling debuted on TNT.

Acclaimed wrestling historian Keith Elliot Greenberg's Too Sweet takes listeners back to the beginning, when a half century ago outlaw promotions challenged the established leagues, and guides us into the current era. He paints a vivid picture of promotions as diverse as New Japan, Ring of Honor, Revolution Pro, Progress, and Chikara, and the colorful figures who starred in each. This is both a dynamic snapshot and the ultimate history of a transformational time in professional wrestling.

©2020 Keith Elliot Greenberg (P)2020 Tantor

Great for any wrestling fan

This book had many stories about the wrestling business that contributed to the independent wrestling boom that culminated by the creation of AEW

The beginning of a new golden age of Pro Wrestling!!!!

Absolutely great read if your a die hard wrestling fan as I am! I look forward to the next chapter that the author intends to write.

Super Book, Annoying Narration

The book is well written and contains a wealth of historical data and fun anecdotes. Then there's the narrator. His voice and so forth are fine, but he mispronounces the names so many wrestlers, including Finn Balor, Bad Luck Fale, Kazuchika Okada, Freddie Blassie, Lou Thesz and Shayna Baszler. Less than minutes on You Tube would've fixed every one of them.

decent documentary

doesn't tell much you wouldn't know if you were even marginally interested in wrestling outside of WWE...
so just okay


Danny reads fine, but didn't bother to look up things like names which is a problem

Great collection of indie wrestling history

This book covers wrestling organizations from all over the world - such as CHIKARA, RevPro, CZW, AEW, NJPW, countless others - and gives in-depth history to the company history and important feuds. Narration isn't perfect (mispronounced names, mostly) but doesn't really detract from the quality of the book. Highly recommend for any wrestling fan.

mispronounced names

overall not a bad story, I really liked hearing the history of Indy wrestling and didn't know a lot of the stuff that happened in the past. however that being said my only irritation was how they kept mispronouncing the Japanese names of wrestlers. please hire someone who knows the names of wrestlers and moves please.

Good book, bad reader

The guy reading is hard to listen to, and continually gets basic well known names wrong, which is very irritating. But the book itself is fantastic.

Indy awesome

as a thirty year wrestling fan I was intrigued and inspired by this book, I learned something's and found out about others. all in all this was a good book

NOT A BAD LISTEN

First thing is to say that I did not enjoy Mr. Campbell's narration, I almost stopped listening several times due to his voice and cadence. But the book overall is fine, there are some interesting stories and perspectives offered in the pages. Mr. Greenberg's story telling and pacing are a little all over the place but he does somehow make it work enough to not get in the way of the narrative. I think it may have improved in the last quarter of the book but that might be that I had just gotten use to it as I listened to this book in two days. I am not sure why Mr. Greenberg felt it necessary to drag his political leanings in to the book but I did roll my eyes at that. I downloaded a book about pro-wrestling because I wanted to listen to stories about pro-wrestling not his political angels and devils. This isn't a bad listen for content, for the most part, and said content is good enough to carry myself past the voice of the narrator but barely.

Awful narrator

The way the story is presented is a weakness as it reads like a newspaper column with little of the verve and personality of the participants. The narrator was totally wrong for a book on professional wrestling and sounded like he should reading crop reports on the radio in a very small market.