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JAMES DIXON's New WWE book "TITAN SHRINKING: How Wrestling's Muscle Lost Its Power"

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4.7979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tom Campbell speaks exclusively to author James Dixon on his brand new book "Titan Shrinking" which dives into WWE during the early 90s as the company hunt for a new top star whilst navigating steroid and sex scandals.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a really exciting time for wrestling books at the moment.

0:04.0

A new one entering the market comes from the mind behind an incredible trilogy that documents

0:09.6

wrestling's biggest eras.

0:11.8

Titan shrinking, how wrestling's muscle lost its power.

0:16.4

It is the return of the Titan series, which takes a look at the World Wrestling Federation in the

0:21.7

landscape of 1992 amidsteroid scandals, sex scandals, new stars leaving, old stars leaving,

0:30.8

new stars coming to the fore. It all is going on. And it's doing so with a domestic business that is somewhat suffering and a European

0:40.9

stronghold keeping it up to talk all about the book and so much more.

0:44.8

I am with The Man Behind the Titan series and the new book Titan Shrinking James Dixon.

0:50.4

James, how you doing?

0:51.4

I'm doing great.

0:52.4

That was a brilliant summary by the way. That pretty much, I should have? I'm doing great. That was a brilliant summary, by the way.

0:55.0

I should have that in the blurb.

0:57.0

Please do.

0:59.0

That's yours to have.

1:01.0

Congratulations on the new book.

1:04.0

Off the back of the successor of Titan sinking, Titan shattered, Titan screwed.

1:10.0

When these books were put together, did you imagine that they would be the

1:14.2

the critics' choices that they became?

1:17.3

No, man, like the first one, Titan Sinking was just done for fun really because there wasn't

1:22.5

a book about 1995, which that one's about. And I was just like, man, like it's an interesting year. People think it's a bad year and it is in many respects, but behind the scenes, it's fascinating. So I was like, I'd love to read more about it. And there was nothing so that I'll just, I'll do it myself, you know, I'll write myself and did a lot of research and, you know, spoke to a lot of people and it turned out really well and obviously became very

1:44.3

popular so i was tied at that point to doing the rest of them but no i didn't expect it at all

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