King of Kingsport, Beau James

Stories, Pictures,videos of my life in Pro Wrestling from the Past 25 plus years. Plus whats going on now in my career. I have traveled this country from Ocean to Ocean, The Gulf of Mexico to Canadian Border wrestling in the Biggest cities and the smallest towns. I have lived my wildest dream. Reached my goals. Had my heart broken and put back together to be broke again and again. All in the name of Pro Wrestling. Also check out my books and DVDs. Free shipping in the USA.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Reviews of my Book are coming in

WWE Hall of Fame Member "Handsome" Jimmy "Boogie Woogie Man" Valiant enjoying "Do Ya Wanna Be A Wrestler, Kid?"

I give the book on a 1 to 5 scale 5 suplexes. I have known Beau James since he was a teenager. His story is a must read for anyone who ever had a dream. I learned so many things about him from this book. He is very open and honest about his battles and struggles. His story of overcoming so many obstacles is an inspiration. His journey to find happiness and peace could be a movie. And his love story with his beautiful wife Misty is the feel good story we all search for.

- Jimmy Valiant

Handsome Beau James, just read the book in a day,man i couldnt put it down..It really helped me by reading it

- Jerry Horton, Wyth County , VA

As I sit here writing you this message, I have literally just laid your book down after reading it in one sitting. Parts of your book reminded me of my first conversation with you, all those years ago, that first conversation i thought you were so f'n arrogant lol, but i also knew then that you had said the gospel to me, and I learned more about the business in that 45 or so minutes talking to you then I learned from the guy who took my money and almost ruined me before i could get started. Thank you for the reminder.

- Joey Bravo, Pikeville, KY

beau, i just got my copy of your book and wanted to just write you a bit here.i have read only the first chapters, but i have to say,honestly,thank you! let me explain if i can..

you,like myself,are old school wrestling fans.we remember the east tn wrestling scene from the early 80's till now.we remember the old mid atlantic tv shows and the monthly show at the db dome, as well as the
nwa,awa,and so many shows.you mention most of them in your book.

as i read those first 2 chapters, i was flooded with my childhood memories of these shows.i just was like you, excited to see the shows,and could not wait to watch them when they came on.as you know about me, i was going to the kingsport shows as much as i could.i would save up my allowance for them,and barely have enough to buy my ticket and maybe a hot dog or a get a picture.i would watch religiously just see or hear of when they would be coming back so i could start saving up again.beau, both me and you both share a deep love and appreciation of the shows and the wrestlers.we felt the excitement of pulling up to the shows and cheering or booing for whoever we liked at the time.i know i felt a little giggly when i would finally have my ticket to the show in my young hands.

i felt this way for years.i went to the shows for years.i met several wrestlers over this time,such as terry taylor,jimmy vailant,and others.i can remember yelling at ivan kollof that he sucked as he passed by me as he walked to the ring.followed by having him stop,look at me straight in my eyes and threaten to kick my butt right then and there.i have so many memories that came flooding back to me from long ago.back when i was only 11 or 12 years old.i remember some of the walmart autograph signings!!

i am sure that me and you must of went to a lot of the same shows as kids,we had to of..your recalling of them are identical to my memories.your excitement and passion for the sport was every bit as good as mine.the differance between us being,that you eventually followed your dreams,and was lucky to get the chance to be a wrestle

your book brought back a lot of fond memories for me from my childhood.some i had forgotten all about.while me and you have followed 2 differant paths in life and in our passions..i think we still share a commen love-PRO WRESTLING!!

I guess what i have tried to say or have hoped to say to you is,thank you for the memories you have brought back as well the ones you given me as a fan

- James Buchanan, Kingsport, TN

Sunday, October 2, 2011

A Video Look at my Book - Buy it NOW!!!

If you have not bought the book what are you waiting on? Buy it today right here. Please note who you would like the pictures and Book signed to.

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"Do Ya Wanna Be A Wrestler, Kid?" Pro Wrestler and Promoter Beau James' first book. 348 Pages of never before publicly told stories and rare photos.

Each Book comes with a DVD following the events in the book and signed pictures of Beau and Misty James.Book, DVD, and Pictures all for only $30 in USA. International orders email kingofkingsport@gmail.com

Do Ya Wanna Be A Wrestler, Kid?
by Beau James

Praise for Beau James
What Beau's Peers have to say about him words from
Dr. Tom Prichard
Dutch Mantell
Jerry Lynn
and more

Forward
by WWE Hall of Fame Member and NWA Legend "Handsome" Jimmy "Boogie Woogie Man" Valiant

Acknowledgement
by Friend and Pastor Dr. Donnie Brannen

Chapter 1 - The Dream
*My life long love of Pro Wrestling starts.
*A History lesson on Pro Wrestling in East Tennessee.
*Stories of my childhood going to the matches.
*Meeting Dusty Rhodes at KFC when I was 10 years old.

Chapter 2- Right Place at the Wrong time?
*My first experience with "outlaw wrestling"
*Meeting Johnny and Davey Rich. How Davey Rich got me my first job in pro wrestling at 14 years old.
*My first meeting with Ron West that was only 30 seconds but has lead to a 23 year career.
*Promoting towns for Continental Wrestling.
*Seeing for the first time how rude fans can be. What you give up to be on TV.
*How I got Started in the ring at the age of 15. What it was like.
*How a 3 minute conversation with Izzy Slapowitz changed my life.
*The start of a 20 plus year friendship with area wrestlers and promoters Krunch The Equalizer and Al Bass

Chapter 3 - The Battle and Life's Lessons Begin
*The Struggles of being a 16 year old promoter and fighting the "system" of outlaw crap that was in place in my home area.
*How some set out to stop everything I was trying to do. And how I would not take no for an answer.
*Knoxville to Knocksville
*How one man almost killed the now 20 year annual FunFest Wrestling Event in Kingsport before it started. *Drawing my biggest attendance of my career at 17 years old and How Ivan Koloff saved the day.
*The rules I set for myself and Southern States Wrestling at 17 years old and how I live by them to this day.

Chapter 4 - Times are a Changing
*The changes I have seen in Pro Wrestling.
*My advice to any young wrestler or promoter.
*How its went from a Profession to the mess it's in today.
*Who is to blame and it will surprise you.
*What is Pro Wrestling?

Chapter 5 - The Question
*The Question every wrestling hopeful has to stop and ask themselves "Do you Wanna Be A Wrestler Kid"
*Wrestling in the worst buildings, parking lots, prisons, homes for the mentally challenged.
*My one and only trip The Chicken House in Manchester KY
*Run in with fans and their knives and guns.
*Drunk wrestling fans
*Wrestlers crying in the dressing room
*Getting myself, Mike Cooper, and James McHone arrested for in sighting a riot.
*KC and I fighting a family.
*Robbie Cassidy, KC, Myself,and Buddy Landel vs. A group of bikers at a of all places a flea market.
*The worst trip I ever had

Chapter 6 - Mercy Daddy and Brother Soups
*Many stories of traveling with Jimmy Valiant and Super Mario
*The worst 4th of July anyone could have
*Waking up an entire Hotel
*My little brothers of the road Boogie Boy and Claudio
*We are Family

Chapter 7 - Wrestling is The Family Business
*How members of my Family have been involved with Pro Wrestling.
*A Midget story for the ages
*Never let a 4 year old book TV. It might get you kicked of the air.

Chapter 8 - The Yankees Are Coming!!!
*Taking a loud mouth Italian from Philly and a Trouble making Jewish Manager form New York into the mountains of Appalachia.
*How the street of New Your City have nothing on Pennington Gap, VA
*A parking lot shooting
*Don't let the fans see what car you are driving
*What happens when you are the only guy in your dressing room that shows up

Chapter 9 - The Road Goes On Forever
*Traveling with Ricky Morton
*Driving drunk for 200 (WV to TN) miles with no lights at night
*Car wrecks and Near misses.
*Blizzards
*Why you always stop at the same places
*The end all beat all hitchhiker story.

Chapter 10 - The Road We Shared Will Never be The Same
My tributes to
Wahoo McDaniel
Road Warrior Hawk
Sherri Martell
Mark Curtis
The Junkyard Dog

Chapter 11 - I Have to Keep Myself Laughing So I Won't Cry
*Wrestlers and their ribs on each other
*Snakes
*Getting a wrestler to put on another wrestlers underwear after they had been crapped in
*Never take a green pill
*How two of the boys rib each other across country in the U.S. Mail

Chapter 12 - Things I Miss The Most
*Just what it says.
*The things in wrestling that are gone and never coming back.

Chapter 13 - The Pursuit of Happiness
*Facing myself for the first time
*Coming to reality with my problems and trying to fix them before they killed me
*Finding a place I feel at home.
*The fairy tale love story of myself and Misty
*How God sent Misty to save my life

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Beau James match from late 90s

Here is me and my old partner and "brother" Bulldog Rains vs. the one and only "Superstar' Bill Dundee & Lance Jade.

I have several stories of Bulldog in the book. Dundee is an ALL TIME GREAT and he taught me so much about how to promote, make matches, run an event and in ring. I miss these days.

The match is from a Tues. Night spot town of Gibson TN.

Thanks to Brianna Starr for posting this. She is a graduate of Bill's school and this is her first day in the profession

Friday, September 16, 2011

Buy Tour Book Today - My long awaited first book is here

Monday, August 15, 2011

What other wrestlers have to say about Beau James. Buy The Book

Sunday, July 24, 2011

WrestleFest 2011 DVD

WrestleFest 2011 DVD Only $10 free shipping in the USA. All other countries email kingofkingsport@gmail.com for shipping fee and orders

Thursday, July 7, 2011

From the Chapter "Mercy Daddy and Brother Soups"

Pre orders start very soon. All pre orders will also get a DVD that goes along with the book and a signed 8x10. keep your eye out

***NOTE*** This is my rough draft so over look any errors. That's why I have a great editor. thanks Bro D!

Soups and I were booked for Larry Strickland at a “big” 4th blow out in Rennick, WV. They were to have wrestling matches, a cookout, singing, and everything else you would think of for a 4th of July festival. The event was at a hotel.

We make the hour and a half drive. It was all two lane roads and Soups said he would drive. Folks for the next hour and a half it was a non stop game of chicken. We arrive at what once was a motel. At it's best it was a sleazy no tell motel in it’s hey day. In 1995 it was a falling down, nasty, dump. The only part of the motel still in use was the diner that had been turned into a bar.

The matches were outside in the back yard beside a homemade sand volleyball pit. On the other side of the ring was a electrified barbwire fence. On the other side of the fence was a cow pasture. The people who all were drunk and still drinking sitting up on a hill watching.

The matches were to start at 2pm. We never saw the promoter till after 3. He had been up on the hill drinking. We were sitting in the dressing room and wrestler Scotty McKeever says I just looked the only people up there watching are my Dad and his buddies and they will leave once the sports bar in town opens.

Matches finally get started at 3:30 it is hot and nasty humid. You try to have a match but all you hear is a bunch of drunks making fun of you. They did not care who or what was in the ring they just wanted to yell and crack jokes. Soups and I teamed second vs. two guys dressed like soldiers. We get done and head back to the dressing room. Now this was no dressing room it was the basement under the bar. The smell was well like a basement under a bar. There was a nasty bathroom with water that would not cut off. And in a room there was a single mattress on the floor. Which lead me to ask two questions. Who is using that bathroom? And Who is sleeping down here?

I get back from ring and can’t find Larry. I ask Roger Anderson where is he? Roger said they took intermission to play volleyball. WHAT? I look out and there is drunk Larry with a beer in one had playing volleyball with the other. I send word out to him Soups and I want our money so we can leave. He never comes back there.

After taking a rubbing alcohol and spray bottle bath I head up to get food. I find Soups up there and he is entertained by these mountain men and the 3 women having this party. To me it was as low as I could go on a 4th of July. To them it was the highlight of their summer.

I’m making me a sandwich and questioning should I eat anything from this places. I start to get a glass of lemonade and realize it’s lemonade moonshine.I was not above drinking moonshine but I would want to know who made it. Its hard to tell what kind of still it was made in. I could end up blind or dead from one drink. I pass on to get a bottle of water. I look around and realize I’m the only one with out an adult beverage in my hand. When this lady comes busting out of the kitchen with a plate of fish. She yells as loud as she can “Do you want some fish you P#%!&*. That was it for me I tossed the food down and grabbed a beer. If I was going to have to deal with these drunks I figured I better be one.

A fight breaks out in the volleyball game and that comes to an end. Time for wrestling again. As Larry heads to the dressing room I do to. I want to get our money. I go and tell him to pay us so we can go. He sends his wife to get the money. Roger Anderson says “don’t leave just yet watch our match.”

Larry’s wife comes back to give us our money. I get our cash and go looking for Soups. I head back up to where I last saw him I can’t find him. I asked the fish lady if she had seen him and she says “you mean your little fat Mexican friend?”. He is Italian but how would you expect her to know. I say “yes” she says “he ov’r thar” I look and he is sitting on the hill watching the matches with the locals. I go over to tell him we can leave when all the sudden I hear some man say he is trying to kill him. I look up and Roger Anderson is beating on Larry like he ruined his 4th of July of something.

Roger is a tough guy and has a wrestling back ground he can hurt a man fast. But this day he chose to hurt a man slow and over and over. When Roger figured Larry had enough he throw him out of the ring. Then went and got him and throw him over the fence and Roger left.

The highlight of my day had arrived. For the next several minutes I watch Larry try to get back across that 4 foot fence. It shocked him sober. He was screaming in pain and everyone was laughing at him. I had no pity on the guy. He deserved it. And he got it. It went on so long even the drunks were not amused any longer. The next match started and he was still on the other side.

Soups and I left and he was still on the other side. For all I know he is there now. We made the trip back to Princeton I had my Dad come and pick me up and went back to Tennessee with two days off before we head out again. On the way home I was trying to tell my Dad on what a horrible day I had. He just looked at me funny like there is no way that can be true.

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