"Kinken Henshu Cho" Zange Roku (Takarajima SUGOI Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Weekly Pro-Wrestling" sold an unprecedented number of copies as a specialty magazine and boasted tremendous influence in the mat world in the 1990s. In this book, the famous editor-in-chief who led the magazine during its golden age confesses the truth without embellishment, brutally revealing the process by which professional wrestling and professional magazines have lost their timelessness. The core testimony, in which he himself admits the deceptiveness of the "criticism of money-rights pro wrestling" that once appeared in the magazine, is nothing but the author's determination to seek a "true summary.

専門誌として異例の実売数を叩き出し、90年代のマット界において絶大な影響力を誇った『週刊プロレス』。黄金時代の同誌を率いた名物編集長が告白する虚飾のない「真実」の数々は、プロレスと専門誌が時代性を喪失するプロセスを残酷なまでに炙り出す。かつて誌面で展開した「金権プロレス批判」の欺瞞性を自ら認めた核心証言は、「真の総括」を希求した著者の決意に他ならない。