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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Focusing on the superstar who single-handedly influenced the development of sports entertainment, this autobiography highlights the legacy of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) icon Jimmy Snuka. The wrestlers legendary top-rope maneuvers, innovative high-flying style, and unprecedented aerial ability made him the most popular competitor in WWE. This fascinating account relates how a native of the Fiji Islands was at the center of two of wrestlings most talked-about moments, the night Snuka leapt from the top of the 15-foot cageonly to miss his opponent and consequently lose the matchand the night Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Snukas head during a segment of Pipers Pit in 1984. Exposing the amazing life of this WWE Hall of Fame member in detail, this record presents the ups and downs of a wrestler who grew to be a key figure in the expansion of the company and all professional wrestling. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Snuka, Jimmy, 1943-2017.
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Wrestlers -- Fiji -- Biography.
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Wrestlers -- United States -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781617499807 (electronic bk.) |
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1617499803 (electronic bk.) |
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MWT11312979 |
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