Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread

[King P]

Honestly, he was probably beyond help with the state that his brain was in. Once you get to the alzheimer's patient/violent outburst stage, your brain is cooked and it's really a matter of time before death or, if you're able bodied, you do something drastic to yourself or others. I'm basically beyond the point of assigning blame when it comes to this case. We know what Benoit did both before that June weekend and during said weekend, as well as how inexcusable it all is. I just want someone in the wrestling business to get a clue and take real steps toward preventing another Benoit from ever occurring. As of right now, I'm not too optimistic..

This 100% Once your brain reaches dementia level damage, you're done. Nothing can be done. You're either going to end up hurting yourself or others. Same thing happened to former NFL player Jovan Belcher, who shot his girl then himself. Come to later find out he had CTE and his brain was all fukked up.

The underlined is how I've felt for the longest, once I saw how understood the findings and saw what his brain tissue looked like

Spoiler

The bottom pic of Benoits brain compared to a normal healthy brain

Unfortunately, you have emotional people who don't understand this and they accuse you of defending Benoit or making excuses and making him a victim. It's not about making excuses or absolving him of any wrongdoing. What happened was absolutely horrific. But it's about why it happened and the build-up of what led to this. To ignore the evidence put in front of you is ludicrous, especially now when we fully know the effects of brain damage. NFL put the CTE issue front and center.

At this point, measures need to be put into place for all sports to protect the brain and prevent internal damage. But I doubt we'll ever see that happen

 

[Rell84shots]

This 100% Once your brain reaches dementia level damage, you're done. Nothing can be done. You're either going to end up hurting yourself or others. Same thing happened to former NFL player Jovan Belcher, who shot his girl then himself. Come to later find out he had CTE and his brain was all fukked up.

The underlined is how I've felt for the longest, once I saw how understood the findings and saw what his brain tissue looked like

Spoiler

The bottom pic of Benoits brain compared to a normal healthy brain

Unfortunately, you have emotional people who don't understand this and they accuse you of defending Benoit or making excuses and making him a victim. It's not about making excuses or absolving him of any wrongdoing. What happened was absolutely horrific. But it's about why it happened and the build-up of what led to this. To ignore the evidence put in front of you is ludicrous, especially now when we fully know the effects of brain damage. NFL put the CTE issue front and center.

At this point, measures need to be put into place for all sports to protect the brain and prevent internal damage. But I doubt we'll ever see that happen

What are you talking about? You don't see people complaining about how soft the NFL has gotten, or how the WWE isn't as violent as it used to be? That's why you had neckbeards salivating over the AEW Blood and Guts ppv.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Jericho’s recent podcast is with the showrunners of the series.

 

[The Ruler 09]

I saw the event where Owen died on TV, that was shocking cause saw him growing up, to me that may be the worst wrestling death had seen cause was during an event like that, about someone you grew up watching and enjoying the work of, was surreal.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Yo, could you link to said thread. I missed it, homie.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-hope-the-fabulous-moolah-is-burning-in-hell.538555/

 

[Hey_zeus]

Part 1 has some tough moments to revisit but was very well done. No clue that Eddie was still alive when chavo got in the room. Eddie OD'ing 3 times and Vicki leaving him the last time Running Part two now. I remember being a fresh in college when this happened and it was tough being a wrestling fan. With the rise of YouTube, ditch's site, etc I dived into puro pretty heavy as the E was trash anyway.

 

[Bonefan32]

man..... feel so bad for David Benoit.

God only knows how much this has impacted him mentally

Yeah I feel so bad for him

I hope I'm wrong but I have a bad feeling he might not live that long,you can tell he is so messed up mentally and doesn't know how to handle it

Does Dean have als?

I was wondering the same thing cause everytime I see him it's like he's trying to not shake but he can't help it

 

[Bonefan32]

Chavo popping up got me

Yeah that's what got me

You can tell Chavo is a legit great person

 

[Bonefan32]

The after show is online now

Chavito & Tommy Dreamer are the guest

 

[patscorpio]

hopefully this new generation of wrestlers watch this shyt....the bumps these guys are taking today are absolutely nuts

thats tradition...they were doing that shyt in all japan in the 90s-00s..dropping nikkas on their heads

that was the shyt that eventually killed misawa

 

[Bonefan32]

Great episode,I have a lot of random thoughts on it but I'm not that good at reviewing stuff that I've watched but I'll try


I feel so bad for David,his life has to miserable because of all the idiots trying to be funny online,you can tell he still doesn't know how to deal with it

Salute to Chavo & Jericho for checking in on David and making sure he is ok,there better not be any slander towards Chavito on here ever again


Salute to Chris Nowinski for the work he is doing with concussions

Hearing Vickie & Chavo discussing Eddie's death was so hard,when she said the third time he overdosed she just left him there and prayed

I loved seeing Chavo check on David at the end when he was crying then Sandra walking over and hugging him was a great moment

I really think those two need each other and I hope they remain close

I'm sure I forgot some things I wanted to add

 

[Amor fati]

Eddie dead, Chris dead, Malenko parkinsons, Jericho is the only one that ain't fukked up

Also Perry is all fukked up too.

 

[krackdagawd]

thats tradition...they were doing that shyt in all japan in the 90s-00s..dropping nikkas on their heads

that was the shyt that eventually killed misawa

even w the all japan stuff I've never seen anything as crazy as the Ibushi/Naito feud shyt.

or

someone needs to tell them to chill over there having your top talent taking these types of bumps is retarded

Naito/Ibushi clearly have some sort or suicide/death pact they do this shyt every match too

I love some njpw due to the realism in their early scrambles and stiff work but that stuff is relatively safe outside the Shibata shyt but as soon as they start trading germans n shyt I maybe I'm getting soft w old age but I don't need to see nikkas get crippled to be entertained give me a good athletic match w good storytelling and im happy.

 

[The Ruler 09]

This interview with Nancy's sister makes a good companion piece to the documentary...

 

[Bryan Danielson]

The after show is online now

Chavito & Tommy Dreamer are the guest

Watching this now..... this was a great show though,... wow just wow