10 Wrestling Books That Proved Seriously Controversial

As controversial a character as they come in wrestling, it shouldn't be particularly surprising that Vince Russo's 2005 autobiography found its way onto this list. Russo is a seminal figure in the transition period wrestling went through in the late '90s and deserves credit for some of his work as a writer, but the New Yorker's disdain for convention in wrestling has always made him a contentious figure inside the industry.

The book takes the form of a kind of therapy, wherein Russo reflects on a particularly vitriolic manuscript he had written before converting to Christianity and discusses how he now feels differently on some of his decisions.

However, much like Shawn Michaels, Russo repeatedly appears incapable of admitting responsibility for his actions throughout his memoir and instead often doubles down on some of his most controversial decisions, including the making the Oklahoma character mock Jim Ross' Bell's palsy on television.