Job Man: My 25 Years in Professional Wrestling

Filled with stories and anecdotes collected over a long and fascinating wrestling career, this autobiography offers a rare, inside look into a popular sport by someone who was there. Chris Curtis was a job man, a specially-trained worker hired to put a main event wrestler like Jake The Snake Roberts or Jerry The King Lawler over. Curtis s ring persona was that of a heel (the bad guy), who bent the rules, cheated, and did everything he could to defeat his baby face (the good guy) opponent. Before he turned pro, Curtis wrestled Victor, a 600-lb black bear, in front of 6,000 people at the Milwaukee Sentinel Sports Show in 1978. He learned how to be a job man at the old Federation Hall on Milwaukee s south side. He began taping matches for the All-Star Wrestling television show less than a year later. Curtis began wrestling for Minneapolis-based promoter Verne Gagne in 1979. He also worked for Cowboy Bill Watts in the Mississippi and Louisiana territories, and for Vince McMahon Jr. s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) out of New York City. He s suffered broken hands, cracked ribs, bruised kidneys, dislocated knees and several concussions in his chosen profession, all without regret.