Viceland - Dark side of the ring
 

Any one watched the Viceland series Dark side of the ring?

I actually enjoyed the "The Match Made in Heaven" episode the most. The story of Macho Man and Liz.

I also like how they have some lookalikes and film segments to go with the narrative to add to the feel of the episode.

"The Montreal Screwjob" was good, as was "The Fabulous Moolah".

The "The Last of the Von Erichs" didn't really catch my interests so much. Still need to watch too more. But well worth a look.

we've posted about it regularly in the 100,001 reply thread.

It does probably deserve its own thread.

We should have done this weeks ago lol

I watched the Montreal Screwjob episode tonight. Good stuff. There's a whole marathon of this and The Wrestlers on Viceland right now. I'm loving it.

The Wrestlers is so good.

I've enjoyed all of the episodes. If I have one gripe, I didn't really like how much of Linda Hogans narrative they used during the Macho Man and Elizabeth episode.

Seemed like she was more spinning tales than reliable.

The Bruiser Brody episode was really good.

Only one I didn't like was the one about the guy I can't even remember his name cause I had never heard off him
Wrestled the free bird gsir cream match

I found the Von Erich episode very sad and excellent.

I watched them all with my girlfriend who would never watch anything wrestling related if she wasn't with me...

We both liked Bruiser & Montreal Screwjob the best. Gino and Moolah were not very compelling for either of us and The Savage/Liz story comes in a the middle. From my perspective they should have talked about Steph.

Haven't watched "The Wrestlers" yet but I will...

I know there are some episodes of Dark Side of the Ring that weren't released, like one about Benoit... hoping those are released this summer.

Only seen Bruiser and Macho so far. Hope to catch the rest on demand.

I found the Moolah one to be quite compelling.

The only unsatisfying one was Gino Hernandez because it completely destroys all ambiguity over a myth most fans are unaware of. Montreal talks on a subject everybody knows and still keeps it relatively fresh.

Gino just wasn't that interesting a guy really and there he is stuck in amongst some legit wrestling folklore.

Dino Bravo should have been the one. I think Gertner suggested that for a second season and I'd like to know more about it.

Topics I'd like to see in further episodes:

Dynamite Kid
Chris Adams
Dino Bravo
Terry Garvin
JBL's bullying
Steroid trial

From what I've heard, Dino Bravo is on the season 2 list and will be the first episode.

Just the Brody one so far

Brody was really a great episode, the in depth explanation of how it went down sounds way worse than it reads.

Yeah, I'm going to read the Brody book next once I get time to escape from real life scheduling. The only wrassling I've entrenched myself into these days has been Hulu episodes of RAW/SD, Being the Elite on YouTube and the recent AEW PPV, DoN.


Also, excited to see Moxley-san in NJPW

Dark Side of The Ring Discussion Thread (Warning: Spoilers)
 

Might as well create a thread for this. What a fucking show tonight. Man was that ever heartbreaking.

New Jack next week which should be interesting lol

Felt so bad for his poor son. He looks so much like his dad.

Get back to you guys after....

Posted my thoughts in spoilers so I don't ruin it for others just incase.

To be fair, if you're entering a Discussion Thread it's pretty much a given that spoilers will discussed.

Actually, fuck it. I'll just edit the thread title.

Is it really a spoiler that Benoit murdered his family 13 years ago?

Would have preferred Eddie and Benoit's stories separately (as much as possible with Benoit at least)

Dont steal my material

So much for trying to be nice, I hate you all!!! :)

Kris P disagrees

Lol yes he does

Here's both episodes

Thank you for posting episode 2 :-)

Yes, major rep storm coming your way for that.

A great watch but not what I'd call a fun watch.

The ending offered some catharsis. Though, having listened to both Sandra and Chavo on Jericho's podcast, there wasn't much about this that I didn't already know to some degree. Still, the stuff with his older son at the end...was quite riveting and heartwrenching.

I watched the first part. It's really hard to want to watch the 2nd part. Chris Benoit IS my favorite wrestler of all time. I still dont believe he did this.

Oh man this is hard to watch. Heartbreaking.

90 minutes of re-treading old ground

As deep-dive wrestling fans, it's impossible not to know the whole story. I appreciated the added touch of Sandra and David, who brought a fresh perspective to the whole thing. (Unless you're like me and listened to her on Talk is Jericho).

I also appreciated Chris Jericho's role in reconnecting the two. It was a good look for him.