Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Why did he wear a neck brace tho??

I always thought it was to sell an attack from TV

edit: apparently this was before he started taking bumps so nvm

 

[El Poyo Loco]

fukk Mushnick

To me just having him on this DSOTR loses credibility he has always had a hatred for Vince well before the steroid trail. This episode needed Cornette to blast Mushnick one more time.

 

[El Poyo Loco]

McDivitt is so good he dissected the case had charges dropped and did his homework on everything and everyone.

The feds really fukked up by not having this case in PA or CT they had it on Long Island in the WWF backyard

Warlord was right most these guys where using well before working for Vince and had established steroid guys that's why you can never blame Vince for steroids.

Hogan didn't snitch but Vince didn't see it that way but yeah going on Arsenio didn't do both of them any favors.

Vince did work the jury with having the neck surgery right before the trail started

 

[patscorpio]

im about to watch this now

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Why did he wear a neck brace tho??

He had a car/motorcycle accident shortly before the trial iirc. But most of the speculation around it has always been that he wore it to try and get some sort of sympathy during the trials too

 

[threattonature]

Nothing too crazy that wasn’t already known in this episode I wish they would’ve spent more time talked about how WWF was preparing for Vince to go to jail. They could’ve brought up how Vince brought in either Jerry Jarrett or Bill Watts to run the company in case they lost the trial. I believe ratings took a huge dip too. Wasn’t the Macho Man leaving part of this as well?

I wouldn’t be shocked if McDivitt or however you spell his name made a condition of his participating being that it has to be pro-WWE.

 

[prophecypro]

Was listening a couple of years ago on the Lapsed Fan do a deep dive on the Steroid Trial and go through the transcripts re-enacting them (Which they put again for this and the Zahorian trial in anticipation for the Vice Episode) and this ep pretty confirmed all the things here, but I thought they went into more detail than here

The big thing with this case was:

McDevitt is literally that lawyer that wil eat the case, when you read the transcripts that guy is like a fukking surgeon
Shaun O'Shea the prosecutor fukked up royally, I think he had a chance to get Vince on the stand and didnt
They really thought Hogan and Warrior would help them out
Also I can remember if it was mentioned but on the podcast they noted that Warlord after his testimony was outside the courtroom by the door trying hear everything

Also Nailz is a dumbass for not know what contempt meant

 

[The Rainmaker]

McDevitt won the case without calling a single witness and letting the prosecution neck themselves Now that's a lawyer.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

McDevitt won the case without calling a single witness and letting the prosecution neck themselves Now that's a lawyer.

Dude must have went to see Mephisto before trying that case cause he even said it himself, you dont get acquittals on a fed case. They dont have to play fair.

 

[EnzoG]

So who put the call in to have people come over to John's mother's house?

 

[KFBF]

Nothing too crazy that wasn’t already known in this episode I wish they would’ve spent more time talked about how WWF was preparing for Vince to go to jail. They could’ve brought up how Vince brought in either Jerry Jarrett or Bill Watts to run the company in case they lost the trial. I believe ratings took a huge dip too. Wasn’t the Macho Man leaving part of this as well?

I wouldn’t be shocked if McDivitt or however you spell his name made a condition of his participating being that it has to be pro-WWE.

You gotta listen to the lapsed fan coverage of the trial if you haven't. It's great for all those details about watts and shyt.

What would the anti-wwe angle have been here?

 

[GreenGrass]

i have the whole series to download on Google Drive in 1080P, just PM me if you want these files.

 

[Alpha Dog]

“Do you have animosity towards Vince McMahon”
“No”
“Your honor he doesn’t know what animosity means”
“Do you hate Vince McMahon?”
“Yes”

 

[Cladyclad]

This series started out fire

but it’s been mid for a minute

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

This series started out fire

but it’s been mid for a minute

They stretched themselves too thin with "Dark Side of Football" & "Dark Side of the '90s"

Like I said, the wrasslin business is the ones business you should never run out of scumbag tales about.

I mean, you could probably do a whole season on the dead wrestlers of Wrestlemania 6.