10 Shocking Revelations From WWE Wrestlers' Autobiographies

There are one or two as-yet-unreleased wrestling autobiographies that we're dying to read (although anyone expecting to one day get their hands on Vince McMahon's tell-all book could be left disappointed).

Until then, though, we're going to have to make do with what we have. And what we have, it turns out, isn't too bad. From Bret Hart to Justin Roberts, many of those who have been intimately involved with the wrestling business in some capacity or other have an interesting story or perspective to tell.

Even the books released under the WWE banner - whose contents, you might presume, with some justification, would be devoid of anything too salacious - are often far more revealing than we bargained for (Chris Jericho, for example, was allowed to speak frankly on the subject of Chris Benoit in his).

Apart from anything else, wrestling memoirs - like any other - need to sell, and that means authors, however guarded with the press under normal circumstances, can often be persuaded into parting with a shocking story or controversial opinion to help drive up their takings.

And who knows? Some of them might even be true.

This one won't be shocking to anyone who watched Ric Flair's 2006 feud with Mick Foley - in which the former's by-then public reservations about Mrs Foley's Baby Boy played a prominent part - but they were a little jarring to read when Flair first released his autobiography a few years earlier.

In it, the 'Nature Boy' savaged the three-time WWF Champion, labelling him naught more than a "glorified stuntman", effectively dismissing his achievements within the wrestling industry as, somehow, a fluke.

This was shocking mainly because Foley seemed - to fans anyway - to be one of the industry's most inoffensive characters. Granted, he had made unflattering comments about Flair in his own book a couple of years prior, but they were vanilla compared to the dusting down he received in return.