Chair Shots and Other Obstacles: Winning Life's Wrestling Matches

by Bobby Heenan and Steve Anderson

This introspective look into the wit and wisdom of legendary professional wrestling manager Bobby The Brain Heenan is told through funny examples and anecdotes from his five-decade career. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582617627
• ISBN13: 9781582617626
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

Great book!, showing the human side of Pro Wrestling. If you are a Pro Wrestling fan from the old days, or a "Bobby The Brain " fan, you'll love this book!

Heenan is an Entertaining Man

A self help book from a wrestler is a bit hard to swallow. It is particularly hard to swallow when the wrestler played the role of a crook or con-artist so well. Through his second book, we see a different side of Bobby Heenan. While I would not call it a helpful book, it is entertaining.In "Chair Shots ...", Bobby Heenan uses wrestling terminology as a metaphor for life. As a man with an eighth grade education, working for wrestling companies since his teen years, he has not written anything revolutionary in this book. Much like his first book, there are a lot of entertaining stories and anecdotes. I found them entertaining as a fan of old time wrestling. For the entertainment value of the stories, the book is worth its price.While I feel this book is inferior to his first book, I enjoyed reading wisdom on life from Bobby Heenan. Few people realize that there is a human being behind the character he played. This is an opportunity to know the character of the real Booby Heenan. My hope for the future is that Heenan puts out a book of his best one-liners and insults from his wrestling career. A book like that would be a must for me.

Funny stuff

"Chair Shots" is a really funny book with some classic Heenan wit and some really funny stories. Probably the best wrestling book to come out in the last two years. It doesn't appear that cancer has effected his sense of humor!

The Brain Does It Again

Bobby Heenan is one of the funniest men alive. Period. Need proof? I submit his assertion that he has been hit in the head with a chair so many times that his head now smells like a**. Bobby is a great story-teller, and this book is a great read. There's a passage in the book where he says that he wanted this book to read like you were sitting around having some beers and just talking with him, and it does. He has overcome some pretty serious obstacles (i.e., throat cancer) with his humor intact, and his advice is that we all embrace the healing power of laughter. Not really groundbreaking stuff, but it's from the heart. The cartoons are great and the last chapter written in character as "The Brain" is awesome ("Some people are so dumb, they can hide their own Easter eggs."). If you cracked up at the antics of Heenan and Monsoon in the WWF or his later commentary with WCW, you're going to love this book.

Founding Father

A great book from one of the Charter Members of the wrestling fraternity. This is infinitely more than a self absorbed memoir of his well documented life. This is about over-coming challenges (in this case cancer)and other things that may surprise. You will also find a plethora of great stories about wrestling itself (Bobby most certainly didn't want to disappoint the core audience). And don't worry, Bobby can still entertain with the best of them, what a fun book. A must have for not only the Wrestling fan but also for people with personal challenges. "The Brain" at his best...5 stars!