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The Inside The Ropes Wrestling Almanac is back - redesigned and with a new name! Now known as The Wrestling Yearbook, with a new larger page size for ease of use, this 290-page classic edition covers all of the happenings in wrestling in 1989. The Wrestling Yearbook is the sport's foremost book of record, faithfully chronicling decades of tradition and evolution. The 1989 edition is the first in our retro series of yearbooks (and the second released in this new format), in which we go back and document a classic year in wrestling history in painstaking detail. Our goal is to ensure that the rich history of our great sport does not become lost to time, and lives on eternally via the written word. Revamped with a new format that makes The Wrestling Yearbook easier to use than ever, the 1989 edition is crammed with facts, figures, records and statistics. Included within: The biggest news stories of the year Complete television results from WWF, NWA, USWA, AWA, Stampede Wrestling and GLOW 1989 supercard reviews from Findlay Martin and Dante Richardson Comprehensive television ratings Title histories for all major promotions of the era Major arena and international results Over 150 in-depth wrestler bios, featuring career records, title histories, family ties, statistics and detailed 1989 match records Expanded historical tournament records At-a-glace five-star match guides from Dave Meltzer, Scott Keith and The Wrestling Yearbook Historic award winners Comprehensive WWF VHS match listings and tape ratings, from 1985-1989 Massively expanded and revamped Historical Shows section featuring results from over 1,000 worldwide cards from the 1900s through to 1989, ratings for hundreds of major cards, and thousands of matches reviewed Extensive In Memoriam section tracking the wrestlers no longer with us from the 1800s through to 1