| | SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Book has a "Chokehold" on insiders |
 | | The demise of the fabled Detroit territory owned by The Sheik (Edward Farhat) came about in part when NWA bigwigs arranged for top stars to "no-show" his events and kill fan interest, so they could buy his promotion for pennies on the dollar. |
 | | Between the paperwork from those actions (Wilson said he eventually settled for less than $100,000) and a mountain of government reports and memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Chokehold is a mother lode of information about the NWA from the 1950s to the 1970. |
 | | Despite the 1956 Justice Department decree, Wilson and Johnson clearly establish that the NWA continued to operate as a classic monopoly into the early 1980s by fllisting wrestlers, boycotting competitors, and bribing arena managers and TV stations to maintain territorial strangleholds. |
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