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DAN SEVERN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO BE RELEASED NEXT WEEK

By Mike Johnson on 2016-06-28 14:15:00

UFC Hall of Famer Dan Severn, who had quite the run in professional wrestling as the NWA champion and with WWF, will be releasing his autobiography next week.  The following press release was issued today in support of the book:

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MMA Legend Dan "The Beast" Severn Releases Autobiography

COLDWATER, MICHIGAN – WhatCulture.com is proud to announce the release of UFC-Hall-of-Fame member Dan Severn’s autobiography, The Realest Guy in the Room, which will be released internationally on July 4th. The work will be published in paperback and e-book editions by WhatCulture.com in the United States, United Kingdom, and worldwide, and includes a foreword from legendary professional wrestling manager Jim Cornette.

Severn will have the first autographed copies of his autobiography available in his display booth at the UFC Fan Expo in Las Vegas as part of UFC 200. Severn will also be inducting fellow UFC legend Dan Frye into the UFC Hall of Fame that weekend.

In The Realest Guy in the Room, Severn describes growing up on a Mid Michigan farm, and rising from obscurity to become the most highly-recruited high school wrestler in history. He vividly recounts the injuries and controversy that prevented him from making the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team, the tumultuous period that led him to a career as a professional wrestler, and his ascendency as the first dominant wrestler to ever enter the world of Ultimate Fighting. Holding nothing back, he explains how he balanced life as the most feared real fighter in the world with life as the traveling NWA World Heavyweight Champion during the rise of the modern independent pro wrestling promotions, including his turbulent year competing for the WWE.

“If I told you about a wrestler who came to the ring silently and manhandled his opponents while his manager got on the microphone, referred to him as ‘The Beast,’ and informed the audience about the wrestler’s dominance in the UFC, you would probably assume I was talking about the pairing of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman,” Severn says in the book. “But this exact same scenario occurred in the late ‘90s when I debuted in the WWE with Jim Cornette as my manager.”

“When you look at Dan’s career timeline and you consider the fact that he went undefeated in eight MMA fights during his year on the WWE’s roster, it forces you to look at Dan in a completely different light from any other wrestler or fighter,” said Ian Douglass, co-author of The Realest Guy in the Room. “Each of Dan’s careers was impressive, but the simultaneous nature of how he accomplished everything makes it truly special.”

“Dan’s contributions to MMA and pro wrestling are unlike those of anyone else, his career is truly one of a kind,” said James Dixon, Head of Publishing at WhatCulture.com “We are thrilled to be able to bring his unique story to fans all over the world.”

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