That was a fantastic episode.

It had the best manly wife so far, the most reasonable ex cop, some ex biker said “That Hulk Hogan fella” to prove he knew his stuff and Lance Storm fucking cried!
Lots of great re-enactments too.

Truly an episode to savour.

Man that was so good...

They really need to do an episode on Chyna at some point. I’m not sure why they haven’t yet. They would easily fill two episodes with that topic.

Vice did do a doc about her last year alive. Pretty fucked.

Oh I didn’t know that. I’ll never to see if that’s on demand thru their app.

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try and find it.

Fuck I gotta catch up on these.

Chris Jericho might not be cool anymore but damn does he look great for his age

Found the Chyna doc. It’s from their vice versa series.

I am just thinking about episodes for further seasons...

Rob Feinstein/Ring of Honor: To Catch a Predator - this is a huge story that seems to have been lost in time, let's dig this dirt up! I'd love to see a good story on the origins of ROH as well.

ECW - Very broad topic that could probably be an entire season let alone a double episode. I'd like to see The Darkside guys spin on ECW.

Zandig - Obviously a niche choice and very unlikely but this guy is fucking interesting. I don't know a lot about him but I do know the story where they tried to interview him for Nick Gage or someone else. Dude is insane and probably has a lot of horror stories.

Hulk Hogan - He's just a giant fraud so a big expose shitting on him would probably be really fun to watch.

CM Punk - Not likely to happen now that he's in AEW but I could see a CM Punk/WWE medical story episode.

It's obscure but I'd love them to take a deep dive into the Inoki vs Muhammad Ali match and all the shenanigans.

Is it obscure?

I don’t need any more wasted episodes. Let’s get to the meat of it.

Plane crashes are more interesting than plane rides from hell. Ric Flair could win all of his sympathy back in one episode.

Not for us, but the average fan has zero idea about that match.

I dispute your take!

It’s pretty famous in wrestling circles, but are you going to tell me “World’s Most Famous Athlete Has Career Ruined By Japan’s Most Famous Knee Kicker” isn’t a story? If so, I question your judgment.

Chuck Wepner is still alive and he fought Andre that night. Different location. Inoki is still kicking. Stan Hansen is alive and well. Ivan Putski and Kevin Sullivan.There's pieces of the puzzle still remaining

I think people know the match but not all the behind the scenes craziness.

I think there’s a decent argument that Ali is the most famous athlete in the history of the world. You can’t tell his story without talking about how Inoki fucked up his legs

100% yes. Maybe Michal Jordan.

Prob MJ.

Pretty sure this won't happen until after Hogan is dead. Then, we're guaranteed to have at least three different docs about how full of shit he was outside of also being a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

He could. Until the episode airs and it’s finally revealed that the plane crashed because Ric was drunkenly waving his dick in the pilot’s face.

Nobody saw that (meat)swerve coming.

The man lost his ability to take back bumps, the people will forgive!

Love Luna so much. Underrated.

Mad Maxine made an appearance I see. She could have been something.

Butcher Vachon as well! Man do these guys ever bust their asses getting awesome talking heads

Great episode :y:

Butcher Vachon thinks girls with tough guy relatives don’t get abused.

They do, often by their tough guy relatives.

20 minutes into the Vice/Chyna documentary and I’m already tearing up.

I finished it and it was sad as fuck

It also highlights how full of shit Triple H is about why Chyna wasn’t inducted. Sunny was inducted in 2011. She was doing nudes online at that point. It ain’t hard to Google her and add the word nude at the end and see everything she’s got. The fact they kept out arguably their most transcendent women’s star for porn when is hilarious and I wish somebody would call his dumb ass out on it.

I imagine the entire shitshow surrounding her drug use and the reality shows didn't help either. Chyna was a far bigger star than Sunny. Nobody outside the wrestling bubble remembers Sunny.

The AOL people sure do!

And to be fair there’s a world of difference between nudes and full porn. The company sanctioned full nudes for Chyna, that’s not the issue.

Let’s not pretend WWE has a morality clause when it comes to inducting people with sketchy/shady/outright shitty pasts or is above ignoring/sweeping previously heinous acts. There reason Chyna isn’t in the hall is because they don’t/didn’t want her in or want her there.

Chyna doc is sad. Too bad. She deserves better.

porn wrestling tonight should get a lot of viewers tonight.

This came up on my YouTube feed and it’s pretty good shit.
Look up Jim Wilson, in retrospect this poor bastard never stood a chance.

I wonder who the gay promoter was...

Hahaha Thunderbolt Patterson just showed up to slag off the promoters.
Wasn’t he attempting a lawsuit over discrimination at some point?

Hmmm

Dr D looks like a really big Jeff Jarrett in low resolution...

Jim Barnett

This needs to be shown tonight

Thunderbolt Patterson sort of making the most sense by a long way here...

Everyone else just doing promos and wrestler schtick...

Jim Wilson sitting there thinking “they called me a fag”...

I was taking the piss, my boy.

Lou Albano comes on and says “This guy moaning about black” lol.

He forgot to say “being”.
Now he’s on about Bobo Brazil and denying blades exist.

XPW episode is actually great great shit man...so many twists and turns. New info on old shit is always quality.

That’s what this show is all about!

Great episode. Knew of XPW by name only. Didn’t know they got as “big” as they did or that they were buy a porn guy. Interesting stuff. I hate that the season will eventually end.

Starting to catch up. Finished the FMW and the Kanyon episode. My God the part where Cena and Flair call into Stern to tell Kanyon he isn't any good is a tough watch. You can tell it crushed him.

Also, James Mitchell not being a manager in a major wrestling promotion saddens me. He's so great.

Watching the Luna episode. I remember Kevin Nash saying on a shoot interview that he took one of Luna's pills at a club and was out cold lol.

since vince don't like managers that killed him for wwe.

Managers need to make a comeback. They work wonders for guys especially the meatheads who can't talk that Vince loves. (See Brock/Heyman or Lashley/MVP).

Finished the Johnny K-9 episode.

Great episode, really enjoyed it

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There was no rise. It’s just The Fall of All Elite.

Watching the Grizzly Smith episode for the first time. Jesus Christ.

Insane how well adjusted Rockin Robin appears

I loved how that episode made Robin out to be this amazing wrestler. She was terrible.

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Ready for Jannetty

Still no Chris Adams :(

Vice Media Group is reportedly filing for bankruptcy if they can't find a buyer

well it starts tonight let's hope vice hangs around a little longer

Even though I kinda already knew it, it’s really a bummer to hear how much of a piece of shit Paul Heyman was running ECW.

good thing wwe don't let there people on this show or we would see paul on defending the crap he pulled

Cornette breaking was pretty powerful. The most cynical man in the business crying about someone is saying something.

Oh shit they got Magnum TA for his own episode next week. Let’s go

that should be good

How was the episode. I had baseball tonight and couldn't watch.

it was sad all the interviewees cried at the last segment cornett storm and pricherd.

Caught the Candido episode. Just fucking sad.

Didn’t love that episode tbh.

Really looking forward to the Magnum TA episode tonight

It’s a tragic story, but he’s also still here to talk about it. Let’s go.

How was the episode. I work at the office till 830 so I'm always missing them.

It just started. Calm down.

Excuses

The Magnum Story was only frustrating because I would have loved to see where his career went. I'm guessing he wouldn't have saved JCP, but he was just such a fun guy to watch that he'd have done some amazing things. That said, in the end, they definitely made it into a more feel-good story. And you really can't make it anything else because the guy seems so well adjusted (although I'm sure I'll find out he's some asshole)

The Magnum TA story had no place in Dark Side Of The Ring, and it appears this season is more about sad stories than dark ones.
I aint seen the third episode yet.

Is it bad that during the accident portion, all I could think was "wow, this track goes hard"?

They should do an episode about Brutus Beefcake,.just because his face exploding is one hell of a story.

See that actually would be a great take to tell.
Bruce Pritchard explained it once and it was so graphic that I genuinely felt sick.

The man’s face imploded. He should be dead. They say it was like trying to repair a war victim.

I think I linked Frank Drebin to that story once and he also felt sick.

Never really "got" Magnum TA. Didn't get the hype.

He would have floundered in the WWF. Definitely a Crockett guy.

Like he would have gotten a Billy Jack Haynes push

People saying he would have changed the face of the industry and keep nwa alive, and here's TA saying he was gonna leave before hitting 30 to go drive nascars lol

he probably wasn't making that known, in fairness.

I think Magnum could have done Lex things. The Magnum Migration.

ready for doink the clown tonight

that was a good ep

Yeah very good.

His obese daughter and ever decreasing quality of ex-lover was excellent. The murder conspiracy by the fatty child is just stupid though. Smackheads love smack.

ready for the junk yard dog

the women pay to have sex with him

his song grab them cakes

Oh shit I keep forgetting it's on.

Pretty lame episode to be honest.

yeah this season has hot had a real good ep this season yet. this ep had a few gems the cornett gun story and the hookers paid jyd.

New Jack needed to be alive to tell his JYD owing him money for weed and confronting him in ECW

…story

His finish should have been The Big Bump