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On WRESTLING <\/em>BABYLON<\/em>: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal <\/em>(2007):<\/p>\n

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“Irv Muchnick knows wrestling likes Anna Wintour knows fashion.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Deford<\/p>\n

author, Sports Illustrated <\/em>writer, National Public Radio commentator<\/p>\n

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“The wrestling version of <\/strong>ALICE<\/strong> IN WONDERLAND: you fall into the hole and you discover a world you never dreamed of. But Muchnick didn’t dream this stuff up, he dug it up.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott Ostler<\/p>\n

columnist, San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n

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“In a world of timid, formulaic scrivenings on sports and entertainment and sports entertainment, WRESTLING <\/strong>BABYLON<\/strong> is a sock on the jaw.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bert Randolph Sugar<\/p>\n

boxing historian and author<\/p>\n

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On CHRIS & NANCY: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death<\/em> (2009):<\/p>\n

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“Muchnick is still throwing facts into the fire, still connecting the dots between the sacred cows of respectable society and the WrestleWorld they collude with.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Phil Mushnick<\/p>\n

columnist, New York Post<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Should be called ZEN AND THE ART OF SCANDAL MAINTENANCE. An instant cult classic.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry Matysik<\/p>\n

wrestling promoter and author<\/p>\n

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On Irv Muchnick’s investigations of sports concussions:<\/em><\/p>\n

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“[You characterize] the Times coverage as ‘carefully adumbrated’ – which, I’m assuming for now that you know, means presented somewhat incompletely in an effort to be vague or misleading. As far as I know your concern with the coverage stems only from your Maroon-connection-to-Riddell-study issue. Even if that were an issue, which I know it is not for reasons of which you are totally unaware, you have some nerve casting the entire work that way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan Schwarz<\/p>\n

reporter, The New York Times<\/em>, May 27, 2011, email<\/p>\n

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“the NYT has led that story for three years. what are you talking about?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Vecsey<\/p>\n

columnist, The New York Times<\/em>, June 17, 2011, email<\/p>\n

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on IRV MUCHNICK<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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“He’s a vicious <\/strong>man.”<\/strong>
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