Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread

[invincible1914]

A&E won. This was weak, Vice.

Yep, I just watched both and the A&E one was better.

Warrior sounded like a straight up clown as a motivational speaker.

Why were people talking like he could be replaced with any muscle bound meathead? Nobody else could have pulled that character off. That shyt took skill (and lots of cocaine and steroids)

 

[Brad Piff]

• You didn't watch the A&E one which is why people are shytting on this one.
• There was competition as A&E moved theirs up because they were both doing Warrior.
• "If you don’t like it so be it. " Says the dude that came in here saying we complain too much because we didn't like it.

You proved my point

To be fair, he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

[Max.]

Y'all bytching too much about the show. Typical TSC.

I'm enjoying the ride, even if there's stuff that's been covered repeatedly.

Man shut yo fakkit ass up...

 

[MenacingMonk]

• You didn't watch the A&E one which is why people are shytting on this one.
• There was competition as A&E moved theirs up because they were both doing Warrior.
• "If you don’t like it so be it. " Says the dude that came in here saying we complain too much because we didn't like it.

You proved my point

I was talking about the complaints about the ENTIRE season so far. It ain’t that serious.

To be fair, he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Man shut yo fakkit ass up...

You pathetic fukkboys stay following me around. Really have no life if you wanna start shyt outside of your little stan wars. Pathetic.


the irony of Brad bytch not calling me sharp when your dumbass doesn’t know the difference between sentences and paragraphs. fukk off, mental mark.

 

[DaHNIC82]

I don’t think it peaked at that point yet if only because they still had plenty of big stories still left in the tank to cover and the quality of the show definitely improved with season 2. Benoit, Owen, and such wouldn’t come until the next season, plus you had Jericho narrating which is a good addition, and somewhere in that is probably where it peaked. Considering the topics left to cover and what’s come so far I would say this season is the downside. I don’t know that there’s too much left to cover for another season after this anyway, especially with WWE talent not appearing on the show.

Eddy Guerrero maybe, Chyna, Mr. Perfect’s
Final Days, WWE & Saudi Arabia, Signature Pharmacy scandal, maybe an Ian Rotten one (although on second thought after Nick Gage maybe not ) and after that it’s not too much else.

Id cover Mengs reputation
Arn Anderson and Sid Scissors incident

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Still haven't, me and the family being going out so I'm kinda burnout on TV in general atm.

I'm a wait till the season end and watch em most likely

You end up watching those bottom two episodes yet breh? I’d be interested in hearing your takes on them

 

[Tryna Makit]

Say what ya want about that Warrior....but the guy sure can pick a spouse


His Widow will say no bad words about him
And wont anyone else diss his legacy
And his Ex is more than likely is still madly in love with him from the sound of it and still defends him with such passion

 

[Ace Money]

The Heel turn on DSotR came quicker than expected. I might need that meta DSotR episode on DSotR.

 

[El Poyo Loco]

I don’t think it peaked at that point yet if only because they still had plenty of big stories still left in the tank to cover and the quality of the show definitely improved with season 2. Benoit, Owen, and such wouldn’t come until the next season, plus you had Jericho narrating which is a good addition, and somewhere in that is probably where it peaked. Considering the topics left to cover and what’s come so far I would say this season is the downside. I don’t know that there’s too much left to cover for another season after this anyway, especially with WWE talent not appearing on the show.

Eddy Guerrero maybe, Chyna, Mr. Perfect’s
Final Days, WWE & Saudi Arabia, Signature Pharmacy scandal, maybe an Ian Rotten one (although on second thought after Nick Gage maybe not ) and after that it’s not too much else.

The ring boy scandal
Vince's steroid trail
WCW discrimination

 

[Big Jo]

The ring boy scandal
Vince's steroid trail
WCW discrimination

steroid trial is planned for 2nd half of this season



I’m sure we will at least get a season 4, it’s the most popular show on vice I believe and the creators seem to genuinely enjoy making it

it will probably morph into something else once they feel they’re completely tapped on topics. but like I said, given the shows growth, popularity and all the fukkery in wrestling, highly unlikely they end it after this season even though it’s been kinda flat so far

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

the big splash was the chit back then. it was a finisher for alot of people.

the problem is, you learned about the warrior in retrospect thru smear-pieces. its too much of a stigma on here now. you have to have been there in real-time to get it. he was just as big as hogan for a reason brehski.

same goes for other stigmatized wrestlers who were huge stars - lke say a lex luger who has been buried into oblivion. i'll put it like this - dudes that get gassed up on here like john cena, batista, etc dont have nothing on guys like warrior, luger, etc.





well most of the topics on the darkside series, really arent considered fresh unless theyre digging deep into the crates with older stuff.

theres has yet to be a complete unbiased documentary on the warrior. A&E came the closest but they spent way more time on his personal life and pretty much sped thru everything concerning wrestling aside from wrestlemania 6.

Who's gassing up John Cena & Batista?

Hogan couldn’t wrestle either

Hogan absolutely could wrestle

Dude's matches in Japan are legendary.

Vince McMahon made him dumb down his moveset

here's the thing, Dark Side of the Ring is a great series. it is well done, the musical score is always on point, and even the weaker episodes are worth a watch. with that said, seasons 1 and 2 are going to be hard to beat.

everything reaches a peak, and Dark Side of the Ring has clearly peaked and is on the downhill slide. there is only so much doom and gloom to be covered until they have to start watering down the series with not so "Dark" episodes and/or exaggerating and rehashing topics that have been covered Ad nauseam.

Dude, the wrestling business is not a business that is lacking "doom & gloom".

They could make an episode every day for a few years and still have shyt to cover.

 

[Hey_zeus]

WWE is Whitewashing The Ultimate Warrior's Bigoted Past

Vice left out alot. This is why Dana Warrior was wolfin about 'Smut and Filth'.

 

[invincible1914]

Did you see the A&E one on Warrior? I'd tell people to watch that instead of this. They out Darksided Darkside. That's an L because the A&Es have essentially been puff pieces(except Macho's). Turn down the contrarian gimmick for sec.

I saw Warrior's and was like let me check out some more. I'm watching Shawn Michaels and it does feel like a fluff piece. I'm gonna check out Macho Man next. There's a Booker T and a Stone Cold one but I will probably skip those.

 

[Reality Check]

these were the reports in the real-time dirt sheets.

and it makes sense, for all the reasons i touched on.

1) Bruce Prichard and Jim Ross have both talked about him coming back in 96 and neither of them mentioned anything about guaranteeing a championship run
2) If you're going to cite dirt sheets from 96, provide some receipts. I'll even help you:



Nothing Meltzer says in there indicates they were planning any sort of title run.