ECW Press will release the official autobiography of Debra Miceli aka WWE Hall of Famer Alundra Blayze and more famously known as Madusa for her time in WCW, the AWA and All Japan Women's Wrestling on 4/1/23.
The Woman Who Would Be King: The MADUSA Story will be released in hardcover, written by Miceli and Slam Wrestling's Greg Oliver, who himself has penned a series of excellent books on pro wrestling.
The book will feature a foreword by Paul Heyman, who worked extensively with Miceli when she was the Director of Covert Operations for the Dangerous Alliance in WCW before the pair had a short feud in the Fall of 1992.
Promotional material for the book notes:
Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah “Madusa” Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets … Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah’s determination to persevere.
Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women’s belt … until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV.
Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink “Queen of Carnage” t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men.
Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood.
This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.
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