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Sports and Physical Education
[Introduction to the Contents]
What was the "greatness" of Giant Baba, which left a huge footprint in the world of professional wrestling in Japan and the United States? The author, who is a leading expert in the history of professional wrestling, discovers the unknown history of professional wrestlers and Baba from his own source and point of view.
All 3 volumes
The first volume contains the story from 1960 (1960) () when he entered the Japanese Professional Wrestling with Antônio Inoki on the same day, to 1964 (1964) when he went to the United States just nine months after his debut and was active as a super popular star at the American Mat.
[Biography of the author]
Tomomi Naree (Tomomi) was born in Mito City, Ibaragi Prefecture on November 16, 1957.
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University in 1980.
While attending university, he pioneered professional wrestling critics and became a disciple of Hiroshi Tazuhama. While helping translate Western books, he mastered the basics of the history of world professional wrestling.
From April 1981, he made his debut as a freelance writer at the professional wrestling magazine of Baseball Magazine (『 Monthly Professional Wrestling 』, 『 Deluxe Professional Wrestling 』, 『 Professional Wrestling Album 』).
Since then, he has been widely active as a video related to retro and professional wrestling, DVD box supervision and navigator, TV commentator, talk show host, etc.