re: Dark Side Of the Ring: The The Plane Ride From Hell

He'd do lines of coke with the boys at Scores after every MSG show. According to Bret's book.

Early 90s still.

Most of it is message board stuff or interviews with wrestlers and backstage guys.

The latter were originally available on VHS or DVD but are now commonly available on Youtube and elsewhere.


There are also write-ups of some of these interviews which cover what was discussed and try to give background for some of the information involved, since some of it is cryptic if you aren't familiar with certain incidents.

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ECW was in a whole other league when it came to drugs. I remember watching a New Jack shoot when he was talking about Louie Spicolli and a bunch of other guys eating Somas like they were Skittles. He said not long before he died Spicolli was at a diner before a show and was so out of it that he was basically scooping soup from the bowl in front of him and pouring it in his lap. Stories like this seem to be more commonplace in ECW.

Certain companies and eras are more known for issues than others.

WWE circa 1995-1997 was REALLY bad on that end between the Kliq, Louie Spicoli, and others. There is a home movie taken by Man Mountain Rock / Maxx Payne showing some outlandish shite going on that made him persona non grata with the rest of the boys. The company cleaned up, at least temporarily, in the wake of Brian Pillman’s death late in 1997.

ECW, period, was pretty damn bad. Lowlights include Sandman flatlining due to an OD and having to go to the ER to get shocked back to life and Judge Jeff Jones slipping some kind of pill like GHB to one of Mikey Whipwreck’s friends and it ended up killing him.

WCW circa 1997-2001 was also pretty bad, as WCW took on a bunch of former WWE guys with huge drug problems like Scott Hall as well as a bunch of ECW guys like Raven. Raven and The Flock, such as Perry Saturn, have numerous stories of drug use and doing weird shite under the influence.


Best Raven story while they were all fricked up is him, Saturn, and others bringing some strippers to their hotel room, disassembling the room’s sink, setting up a slip and slide hooked to the fixture behind the sink, and putting a strap on dildo on Saturn’s head to slide him down the mat toward the stripper.

They referred to this as “The Unicorn” and managed to get the entire WCW crew kicked out of the hotel after they flooded the rooms below them.

Saturn's had an...interesting life. He disappeared for a few years in South America and everyone thought he was dead. Got a stupid face tattoo now and he doesn't even remember getting it because he was so fricked up on drugs.

That story is probably BS. No scars, no police report, no hospital records, etc. He was on Jericho's podcast and eventually said he got hooked on various drugs during his time in WWE.

It's definitely BS since he doesn't even bring it up anymore when Jericho asked him how he got hooked on drugs and became homeless. Never had any corroboration either.