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A Wrestling Novel: Kayfabe
Paperback
Series: A Wrestling Novel, Book 1
Publisher Price: $24.00
Publisher: Rett Young
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Decker Holt has spent his entire life bleeding in buildings nobody cared about. Bar shows, VFW halls, fairgrounds - twenty-two years of professional wrestling for crowds that could fit in a living room, paid in cash and beer money, living out of a van with a busted heater. To Decker, kayfabe isn't a performance - it's a code. A religion. The only honest thing left in a business that sold its soul to corporate America one sponsor deal at a time. So when he watches an ACW broadcast from a barstool in Warren, Ohio and sees everything he hates about what wrestling has become, he says so - on camera, four and a half minutes, unscripted - and eight million people hear every word.
Alex Thorne hears it too. He's one of ACW's most technically gifted wrestlers, a man who has given eleven years of his life to a company that rewards him with mid-card comedy segments and crowds that chant someone else's name during his matches. When Decker's video goes viral and Thorne's world starts unraveling - a shoot promo on live television, a suspension, a folding chair in Nashville, a contract signed in blood - there's only one place left to settle it. An exploding barbed wire death match. Main event. Apex Crown. The biggest show of the year. Two men who built a blood feud out of principle, pride, and eight million views walking into a ring designed to hurt both of them and only one walking out the same.
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