Dark Side of The Ring Season 4 Episode Guide

Looking forward to the JYD.

This one is very intriguing, because everyone is sticking to their story, and nobody will say what really happened. I think the truth is wrapped up in it somewhere.

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6/20: What Happened to Doink the Clown?

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Magnum is one of those “butterfly effect” stories.

If he doesn’t get in that car wreck which ends his career, Crockett has a young baby face star who potentially lets them do a major change up in the product.


Losing him meant keeping Dusty as top baby face, turning Nikita face, bringing back Barry Windham into the territory, putting the belt on Ronnie Garvin in fall 1987, and eventually pushing Sting and Luger to main event status too soon in 1988.


If Magnum is healthy, they can flip it from heel Flair holding off faces to face Magnum holding off heels, potentially moving the likes of Tully Blanchard, Nikita, etc, to the top.

That may fix a lot of Dusty’s burnout issues where he kept running crap into the ground after having booked the territory since 1984.


If that car doesn’t go off the road, the NWA likely doesn’t have the bad 1987 it did which was what killed Crockett’s ownership due to cash flow issues. Having Magnum would have meant better houses and probably not taking a lot of the risks they did which didn’t pan out such as Starrcade 87 in Chicago, buying various territories such as Florida, Kansas City, UWF, etc, and incurring a lot of debt for not a lot of return.

Magnum's wreck had no effect on Crockett selling to Turner and becoming WCW. They were doomed after spending $4 million (according to Jim Ross) to buy the UWF and Vince screwing them over on PPV.

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Final years of WCW are so fascinating.

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“Bile fascination” is the term that comes to mind.

Some of the end stuff like the three 2001 PPVs were interesting but everything went off the rails around the time DDP won the belt in spring 1999.

I miss WCW

Pretty sure all Dusty’s “Next yeah, we gonna be makin major motion pitchas and sitcoms” shite was in 1987, after the accident.

86 according to Cornette.

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Bash at the Beach 2k is my personal highlight. Final years of WCW are so fascinating.

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I cannot wait for the Cornette segments on this episode to give bird's eye view of what an un-regulated Russo can/did to a promotion.

I stopped watching after they killed the Golden Goose in Goldberg and found out chasing girls was a hell of a lot more fun than chasing pro wrestling, so I never saw the end of WCW. But from the clips, it's amazing how bad the promotion got from 1999-2001.