re: Viceland's new series "The Dark Side of the Ring" is amazing * (Season 2 starts 3/24) *

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Big time old school rasslin' fan. Mid-South and such.

Did not know about this.

Pretty sure I have Viceland on Hulu so going to check it out.

Thanks!

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My cousin wrestled with that whole mid south crowd for years. He made decent part time money as part of The Storm triple tag team ... Thunderbolt, Lightening and then Xavier Crawford’s Dad was Snowman.

We’re big men in my family and my cousin was/is no exception at 6-5 300 back then (in the 80s) and he used to get paid extra when Lawler (and later his nephew I think it was, little blond guy named Jarret or something if I remember), when Lawler would be allowed to win their matches. Lawler was tiny compared to most wrestlers.

Babies and Heels. My cousin was always a heel and the crowd at midsouth loved to hate him.

I remember the first time I saw all of them juicing (to draw blood) down in the dressing room at the Mid South Colosseum and I thought ..... wtf. It was a cage match with the chain link fence built around the ring.

LOL ... I never got it but man did they pack that place back then.

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Kevin and Kerry were druggies. They partied and were fricked out of their mind half the time.

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One night on Fry St in Denton. I plead the 5th

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Old school Leroy McGuirk territory before Bill Watts bought it and turned it into Midsouth

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I don't really remember all that but as a young kid my mom, who loved this stuff, would drag me down to I think channel 9 on Saturday mornings and they'd have live matches right there, broadcasting live. But she liked to be in the crowd They'd have like a TV champion different than the big champion.

These were like preview kinda things for the championship match at the centroplex that night or the next day. And free. We were poor, couldn't afford a ticket to the big stuff but she'd go down there and scream on a Saturday morning. Haven't thought of that in 45 years. Good memory. Baton Rouge was a big pro wrestling town way back when.

Those times were crazy. It seemed more freewheeling I guess. You knew it was fake but not scripted. Just different.

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Don't forget when Fritz sold WCCW to Jerry Jarrett and he wrecked it

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I think Jarrett mostly bought the territory to see if he could vulture it for a little while and make back his money. Which he managed to do. Eric Embry was... perhaps not the greatest draw in Texas wrestling history, but he did well enough that Jarrett got his money back and then cherry picked the surviving talent and brought them to Memphis.

It is weird how the territories worked in their prime. Jerry Jarrett gave away 6 hall of fame talents (Jim Cornette, the Midnight Express, the Rock and Roll Express, and Bill Dundee) to Bill Watts and still considers it a great deal because at the time Jarrett had so much talent he couldn't find a way to work them all into the card.

Watts is fond of talking about how he'd get calls from Vince McMahon Sr. saying he needed this talent (from Watts promotion) to start with the WWF on such and such a date. Watts would always say "Sure, glad to let you have him!" And then Vince would give him Andre the Giant for a couple of weeks.

Or, when a very young Jerry Lawler announced he wasn't going to make any of the smaller town house shows, Jerry Jarrett shipped him down to Eddie Graham in Florida to be a job guy for 6 months. It was a really different world back then.

We won't even get into Houston being a one city promotion that cherry picked the best wrestling talent from all over the US for their weekly shows or that, at one time, Australia was the home to the biggest wrestling promotion in the world.

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We won't even get into Houston being a one city promotion that cherry picked the best wrestling talent from all over the US for their weekly shows or that, at one time,

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Paul Boesch worked with everyone, never heard a bad word about him.

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Ric Flair would have never had his reign if David Von Erich hadn't died.

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Fake news. Rick Flair's character is who he actually is. Too much charisma not to succeed

Behind the titantron on YouTube is better

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Not fake news

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– Viceland has officially announced that the wrestling docuseries, Dark Side of the Ring, will receive extended cut episodes. These will begin airing on May 22 at 9:00 pm EST. The extended cut episodes will feature never-before-seen footage from the docuseries.
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Dark Side of the Ring Creators Have Dino Bravo Episode That’s ’75 Percent Finished’, Could be First Episode for Possible Season 2
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Where can these be watched? NF? HBOgo?

I’d definitely be interested in something like this.

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VICELAND

It's a TV network. Also, it's in the thread title