Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread

[Devilinurear]

Yeah I could be wrong I’m a turtle

 

[Turtle]

See! This mf a member of the turtle club!

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

I’m just getting around to watching this week’s episode now. JFC how the hell did it ever get cleared for them to go on top of the cage when the roof was secured by fukking zip ties? Not even metal zip ties, plastic ones!

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Letting your kids watch you in any version of a hardcore match without clueing them in on it being “fake” is borderline child abuse.

 

[Da_Eggman]

First episode was filler for me

Wasn't a bad episode, but if you a wrestling fan 20+ years then this HITC story been told to death

Yeah but hearing his actual kids talk about is interesting


And I like they touch on the I Quit match which was imo the most brutal match in history and ten times worse than the HITC match

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

I’m just getting around to watching this week’s episode now. JFC how the hell did it ever get cleared for them to go on top of the cage when the roof was secured by fukking zip ties? Not even metal zip ties, plastic ones!

Especially since Taker and Shawn had already done one, and went on top of the cage. Whoever built the second one--or if they just reused the first one--simply rushed through putting it together.

 

[Turtle]

Yeah but hearing his actual kids talk about is interesting


And I like they touch on the I Quit match which was imo the most brutal match in history and ten times worse than the HITC match

Noelle is a fukking mark

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Especially since Taker and Shawn had already done one, and went on top of the cage. Whoever built the second one--or if they just reused the first one--simply rushed through putting it together.

They reused the first one, they were under the impression since Taker gave HBK a back drop and a gorilla press in their match they’d have nothing to worry about

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Especially since Taker and Shawn had already done one, and went on top of the cage. Whoever built the second one--or if they just reused the first one--simply rushed through putting it together.

More like being cheap. If they really wanted to use zip ties, they could have bought metal ones. I just bought 100 of them for like 10 bucks late last year - which is equivalent to $5.05 in 1997 dollars. Surely a company like WWE could easily afford to buy a few hundred metal zip ties even in 1997.

 

[Grifter]

That was heavy drugs Shawn, probably at least 50 pounds under Mick. But E's cheapness and rush jobs are well known.

 

[thenatural]

It's an interesting lineup this season. I hated Vader growing up because he's always whooped Sting's ass when I was a kid. As I got older and started listening to shoots, heard about laziness in work ethic and carelessness with jobbers. Looking forward to that. The only ones that don't interest me are the Foley one and Muhammad Hassan.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

It's an interesting lineup this season. I hated Vader growing up because he's always whooped Sting's ass when I was a kid. As I got older and started listening to shoots, heard about laziness in work ethic and carelessness with jobbers. Looking forward to that. The only ones that don't interest me are the Foley one and Muhammad Hassan.

Yoko was one of those that used to take liberties with jobbers, doing the crazy bonzai drop trying to cave in the jobber's chest, but when he got in the ring with Hogan and Bret Hart, totally different story, smh.

Vader was another one, used to take liberties with jobbers. But got in the ring with Shawn Michaels and was scared like a lost puppy, power bombed Shawn on the outside of the ring and basically placed him down slowly cause he didn't want that pushback, smh. Vader used to f*ck up jobbers at WCW, straight swinging on the side of their heads.

 

[thenatural]

Yoko was one of those that used to take liberties with jobbers, doing the crazy bonzai drop trying to cave in the jobber's chest, but when he got in the ring with Hogan and Bret Hart, totally different story, smh.

Vader was another one, used to take liberties with jobbers. But got in the ring with Shawn Michaels and was scared like a lost puppy, power bombed Shawn on the outside of the ring and basically placed him down slowly cause he didn't want that pushback, smh. Vader used to f*ck up jobbers at WCW, straight swinging on the side of their heads.

I wonder how much they're going to focus on that he was the bully that did a 180 when someone stepped to him. Paul Orndorff whooping his ass in shower shoes is a story to hear. Then Shawn basically ending dude's main event run on a PPV because he had the boss's head up his ass.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Yoko was one of those that used to take liberties with jobbers, doing the crazy bonzai drop trying to cave in the jobber's chest, but when he got in the ring with Hogan and Bret Hart, totally different story, smh.

i did hear that those jobbers knew ahead of time and were paid more cuz they were trying to get yoko over and wanted the scary ones for hightlights

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Letting your kids watch you in any version of a hardcore match without clueing them in on it being “fake” is borderline child abuse.

Exactly.

I"m like "bytch, why you keep bringing the kids to the damn show to watch their father get beat on?"