We Promised You a Great Main Event: An Unauthorized WWE History Hardcover – October 13, 2020

Very good book. Hate to nitpick but could of better back stories. Never talked about the late great Randy Savage and those Stephanie McMahon rumors. Did a great job on Mick foley though. Don't believe what he says about the wwe network. It doesn't have all the wcw ppvs. It's a very good but it could be alot better. The Titan series books by james dixon are better.

Just the right amount of history and snark for the wrestling fan. Can’t wait for the follow-up from 2019 in

This has an excellent history of the WWE although sometimes it reads like a long blog post.

Great book! For anyone with a deep knowlege of WWF/WWE lore some content won't be a revelation but the author's POV and writing style makes the book an interesting and fun read.

This was a really good look into the WWE. I highly recommend this to any fan or someone who just wants a good read.

Provided a good trip down memory lane..learned a few things too that I never knew about WWF too. Overall a very good book.

Well written, hilarious, and full of interesting wrestling information.

In We Promised You a Great Main Event, journalist and long-time wrestling fan Bill Hanstock takes the reader behind the scenes (into Gorilla position, if you will) of the long history of WWE. From the early, carnival-style events that Vince McMahon Sr. debuted in the northeast, to the current, global climate of WWE in 2020, Hanstock covers the full gamut of successes and failures at the hands of the McMahons. Hanstock does a good job of balancing the events and personalities that have been at the forefront of WWE storylines with the trials and issues happening when the cameras stopped rolling.This book definitely feels like it has a niche audience. Yes, any WWE fan would find parts of this book to enjoy, but Hanstock seems to be writing for a smark - a smart mark/fan - rather than the casual fan, or the fan who chooses to believe the storylines are reality and the characters they see on TV are real. If you find yourself always cheering for the babyfaces and booing the heels because that's how WWE wrote it, then this book might ruin too many of your childhood dreams. However, if you've found yourself more than once on wrestling dirtsheets, then you'd probably enjoy reliving some of WWE's best and worst moments, on screen and off. Hanstock employs plenty of humor, and takes a true smark perspective on all the major events and players in WWE's history. The book was enjoyable, well-written, at times funny, and contains plenty of information the McMahons would probably rather you didn't know.

Good bookVery much about the background and not the wresting which made a lovely change, worth reading : - )

This book sucks. He barely scratches the surface on anything interesting. Entire years are skimmed over in a few pages. Most of the book is spent going over the same few events that we have all read about dozens of times (yet he offers no more insight into any of it). Just the same old tired stories. How many times do we need to read about the steroid trial or the montreal screwjob?This book is great if you have literally never read another wrestling book. But, if you have, this is all just recapping what you already know.I wouldn't be so annoyed if he didn't say in the intro that all other books on WWE history were poorly written. This book is garbage compared to Sex, Lies and Headlocks or the Titan Sinking/Shattered/Screwed series.