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Titan Shattered: Wrestling with Confidence and Paranoia

This is a follow-up to an earlier best-selling book about the wrestling company then called the World Wrestling Federation. Vince McMahon hoped 1996 would be the year his company rebuilt itself after a rough 1995. He had placed his faith in Shawn Michaels as the face of a new generation, supported by veteran performers, familiar names and fresh talent, and he expected to beat the rival WCW in the ratings battle then known as the Monday Night War.

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Things did not go to plan. This account looks inside the company during that year, when suspicion and fear ran through the locker room, long-standing habits of the business were overturned, and McMahon seemed willing to set aside the principles he had once championed in favour of chasing profit.

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