[14] Nathaniel Moore of The Globe and Mail described the book as an acute report painting a quintessential morality play about a Canadian independent company fighting for its own identity during the years of Ronald Reagan's cash-crazed United States.

[17] Jose Marrero of WrestleView shares that view, stating that Hart has a reputation of being an individual who believes he never got his due and that those feelings translated into the book.

He goes into detail, saying that Hart describes his tenure as a wrestling booker in a way that portrays him as a great writer who was a constant victim of others' maliciousness.

Marrero also mentions that some of Hart's accounts surrounding his discovering Tom Billington, (a highly influential and revolutionary wrestler) who Hart brought to Canada from England are contradictory form those in Billingtons own autobiography, Pure Dynamite: The Price You Pay for Wrestling Stardom.

The most outlandish-sounding claim is that when their mother Helen was on her deathbed and an hour away from dying, Bret entered her hospital room, saw his sister Diana (who had just written a controversial book about the family that was eventually recalled when Owen's widow Martha took legal action), and literally reached over his dying mother to grab his sister by the neck.

In other words, what Bruce wrote is completely false.” (Also, in his book, Bret noted that Helen died at 3:30 AM local time while he was lying awake in bed.)

Nonetheless, Boyd states that the book comes off as a candid retelling of Hart's life and that it often feels like reading a diary.

[23] Bret has dismissed many of the stories in the book, including claims that his signature look with black and pink duds and dark shades was inspired by Bruce.