Dark Side of the Ring new season (3/25)

I hate to say I’m looking forward to the Daffney episode, but that one could be the best of the season. Heartbreaking story.

Legendary wrestler who promoted the Detroit territory was doing all that hardcore ECW bullshite way back in the day. Sabu is his nephew.

I feel like they should've done the Foley/Rock I Quit match instead of HIAC.

Jim Ross: "Hey Tony, you're gonna have to cover up that SS tattoo."
Tony Halme: "Why?"

It’s a very interesting list to say the least.

Tony Atlas’ career is very colorful to say the least and he has stuck in there despite being homeless at one point when the territories went away.

Billy Jack Haynes is legit fricking nuts and has killed at least one person (his wife as a mercy killing IIRC).

Vader isn’t remembered in this country how he should be due to his failed WWF run and the whole Orndorff fight in WCW that got him fired.

Daffney is a legit tragedy and Dixie Carter should rot in hell for how Daffney got treated during all her concussion issues.

Ludvig Borga? shite wrestler but a legit Finnish politician and MMA fighter.



I think the odd man out is Muhammad Hassan, who wasn’t a great wrestler to begin with and was roundly hated by the locker room in addition to the network saying “Never put him back on TV again.”

Cornette may have a lot to say about that one since he was running developmental when he was there.

There's nothing "dark" about HIAC though. Nobody was seriously injured and it made Foley a legend.

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Vader isn’t remembered in this country how he should be due to his failed WWF run and the whole Orndorff fight in WCW that got him fired.

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He was the top heel for a decent run in WCW

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Ludvig Borga? shite wrestler but a legit Finnish politician and MMA fighter.

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Dude was a nazi.


Eddie Gilbert episode should be pretty good too especially if they interview the right people.

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Cornette may have a lot to say about that one since he was running developmental when he was there.

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Cornette would have never put Hassan in a main event status immediately coming up from OVW. He would have known the heat from the other guys backstage would have likely caused problems. And according to a Shane Helms shoot, there was major jealousy towards Hassan, who by all accounts was a really good guy. Maybe with a different booking strategy, the martyr segment with Daivari wouldn't have happened or wouldn't have coincided with the London bombings and he'd have had a 10-year run.

Eddie’s neck had been fricked since a car wreck in WWF which happened the same night Superfly beat his girlfriend to death.

The Original Shiek … his name was Ed Farhat … may be off the radar for a lot of younger fans, but he’s a titanic figure in pro wrestling history and this will be an interesting one.

He never broke kayfabe in his life, but a book about him came out a couple of years ago that told his story. He was big and powerful enough (he was the behind the scenes promoter in Detroit) to where he made enough cash to own an 11,000 square foot house that’s a bed and breakfast today.

And he filled arenas doing special shots in other promotions from coast to coast.

Then he pissed it all away because even in his 50s he was booking himself to go over against people young enough to be his kid or refusing to put people over for other promotions because he was in love with having his hand raised instead of doing jobs in the best interests of the promotion, he spent every dollar he made as fast as he got it (was a degenerate gambler) and got into drugs.

He was still in his 70s wrestling freaks like Abdullah the Butcher in Japan in rings that were on fire and surrounded by barbed wire, because he needed cash.