The Toughest Man Alive

In a fifty year career of high falls and fist fights, Gene LeBell has crashed cars, jumped motorcycles, wrestled bears, incited riots and fought some of the deadliest men in the world. He is a two time AAU National Judo Champion and he was a professional wrestling world heavyweight champion at a time when wrestling was more about survival than show business. Gene LeBell parlayed his success in grappling into an ongoing career as a Hollywood stuntman where he has done the most dangerous job in Tinsel Town in such films and TV shows as "Raging Bull," "Rush Hour," "Bad Guys," "The Dukes of Hazzard," and "The Green Hornet."

For the first time in this long-awaited autobiography, Gene LeBell gives us an insider’s view of the back rooms, backlots, wrestling rings and Japanese dojos where he has made his living and built his reputation by dishing out pain and punishment and taking it in return.

Throughout these pages are gripping, behind the scenes accounts of such legendary figures as Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, Andre the Giant, Lou Thesz, Freddie Blassie, Bob Wall, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, "Sugar" Ray Robinson, "Superman" George Reeves and Burt Reynolds just to name a few. LeBell also peels back the curtain on the tightlipped world of the Hollywood stuntman and the early days of American martial arts as only he can.

Gene LeBell has broken bones, been set on fire and body-slammed by the best of them and has always come back for more. "Black Belt Magazine" has hailed "Judo" Gene as "The Toughest Man Alive" and in this book of the same name you will discover why.