The Viceland Wrestling Documentaries

[Johnny Sorrow]

I'm pretty sure the reason was that they were vigilantes who were gonna do extreme violence on Cornette for hitting Baby Doll in the uterus. 

[The Natural]

Announced today:

Dark Side of the Ring’s seventh season is set to kick off this summer with a multi-part episode focused on TNA Wrestling and the promotion’s founder Jeff Jarrett.

Variety reports that the new season of Dark Side of the Ring will begin airing on Vice TV on Tuesday, July 7 at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Two episodes will air that night, with new documentaries set to premiere weekly after that. The first three episodes of the season will explore the foundational years of TNA and Jarrett’s personal story of redemption.

“Each season, we try to challenge ourselves to go deeper, and season seven is our most ambitious yet,” said Dark Side of the Ring co-creators Evan Husney and Jason Eisener. “That’s especially true with our three-part exploration of TNA Wrestling, where Jeff Jarrett’s journey of redemption and resilience gives us a unique lens into the highs, struggles, and lasting impact of the foundational years of the company. It’s a perfect example of how compelling and ultimately human these stories really are.”

Jarrett’s life story includes overcoming a battle with addiction and having to endure the loss of his first wife Jill in 2007.

Here is the full list of announced episodes for this season of Dark Side of the Ring:

Dark Side of the Ring season seven topics —

• Three-part episode on TNA Wrestling and Jeff Jarrett
• Paul Orndorff
• Big Boss Man (Ray Traylor)
• Missy Hyatt
• Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher indie match from IWA-MS in 2005 and the personal animosity the two had toward each other
• Zach Gowen
• The Renegade (Rick Wilson), “an exotic dancer who had a brief run as [an] Ultimate Warrior knockoff.”

Dark Side of the Ring debuted in 2019 and became the most successful show in Vice TV history, launching “Dark Side” spinoffs on topics like football and pop culture.

“Dark Side of the Ring is one of our strongest franchises that speaks to our audience with its gritty exposition of the real emotional and physical costs behind professional wrestling,” said Vice TV president Pete Gaffney. “Wrestling is one of America’s most influential pop culture phenomenons, and this series further explores the blurred lines between wrestling’s spectacle and reality, ultimately uncovering the truths behind the stories fans thought they knew.”

F4wonline.com.

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Looking forward to the TNA/Jeff Jarrett, Big Boss Man and Samoa Joe vs. Necro Butcher episodes the most especially LOL TNA/Jarrett.

[The Natural]

There really needs to be a Ashley Massaro episode. Also Vince McMahon and Alberto El Felon. Ashley the most.

[hammerva]

Yeah I don't know what a Dark Side of the Ring Paul Orndorff is supposed to be unless they are somehow going to expose something about WWF and WCW forcing him to wrestle with basically a dead arm

The Necro vs Joe is going to be awesome although this idea of animosity seems like a stretch.   They just beat the fuck out of each other because that is what they do

Edited May 7 by hammerva

[SirSmUgly]

46 minutes ago, hammerva said:

Yeah I don't know what a Dark Side of the Ring Paul Orndorff is supposed to be unless they are somehow going to expose something about WWF and WCW forcing him to wrestle with basically a dead arm

I would assume that they'll touch on all the racist shit he allegedly did and said while working as a trainer for WCW? There could really be a WCW Power Plant episode if DSotR needed more potential topics.

[Elsalvajeloco]

1 hour ago, SirSmUgly said:

I would assume that they'll touch on all the racist shit he allegedly did and said while working as a trainer for WCW? There could really be a WCW Power Plant episode if DSotR needed more potential topics.

This is my first time hearing of this. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention to that era of WCW.

I am assuming that it's something that they wouldn't want coming out when WCW had various discrimination lawsuits they were involved in with some being frivolous than others.

[Cobra Commander]

Guess there’s also the dark side of Paul Orndorff messing himself up at Fall Brawl 2000 doing the piledriver

intrigued about how much of a chore it’ll be to get through a 3 part Dark Side of TNA/Jarrett episode

[Elsalvajeloco]

Given the early episodes of Jeff's podcast, there is a ton of meat on the bone. So I am no way surprised it had to be multiple parts.

[SirSmUgly]

24 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

This is my first time hearing of this. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention to that era of WCW.

Between the Sheets did a fantastic job of covering that later discrimination lawsuit in one of their Patreon pod series. Man, was WCW insanely racist! 

Unfortunately, the link to the case file and depositions that used to be the prime source for all this info isn't up anymore or I'd link it here. As an alternative, and if you want to know more, I'd encourage you to listen to the BtS series on this topic.

[zendragon]

3 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

Given the early episodes of Jeff's podcast, there is a ton of meat on the bone. So I am no way surprised it had to be multiple parts.

Jerry's book is really interesting, too bad he isn't alive to be on this. I think he was on the tales from the territories episode

7 hours ago, The Natural said:

There really needs to be a Ashley Massaro episode. Also Vince McMahon and Alberto El Felon. Ashley the most.

They did the 9 lives of Vince McMahon which is harrowing to think of all the shit that dude got up to, agreed with Ashley, Alberto will probably happen once he gets himself killed or sentenced to life. 

[Zimbra]

Cecil Nyx said he turned down an offer to play Cornette in the upcoming season, and I wish we could have seen that.

Is there that much interesting about Boss Man besides how much he loved cocaine in the 80s/90s?

[zendragon]

I'm guessing BBM episode is probably the same as the Tenta episode, everyone talks about how he was a wonderful family man, who missed his kids when on the road and died way to young from heart faliure

[Cobra Commander]

guessing there isn't enough on Jarrett pre-TNA for a full DSOTR but it'll be something like Jarrett pre-TNA, early TNA, middle TNA, Jarrett getting addicted to a bunch of stuff, and maybe some more TNA/plus GFW... how that's gonna go over 3 episodes

[zendragon]

I'd imagine Double J holds Vince up for money, Vince buys WCW leaving him a man without a country.

TNA starts, at some point he has to sell to Dixie.

Then you have him leaving and going to rehab

[Elsalvajeloco]

21 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

guessing there isn't enough on Jarrett pre-TNA for a full DSOTR but it'll be something like Jarrett pre-TNA, early TNA, middle TNA, Jarrett getting addicted to a bunch of stuff, and maybe some more TNA/plus GFW... how that's gonna go over 3 episodes

His best friend literally fell from the rafters from over 80 feet and he seen the medics literally wheel him past him right before he had to do an interview. Pretty certain that's going be in there. I dunno if The Night We Lost Owen episode he did with Conrad is still up but boy, that was a tough listen. Listening to a play by play of that entire night is fucking traumatic. Granted, Jeff being an eternal optimist tried pepper in some fun Owen stories before and after. However, that makes you wish they didn't continue on with the show.

The Richard Scrushy stuff needs to be its own episode.

I am also sure they will cover his first wife dying of cancer.

[AxB]

I think that when Vice puts these episodes together, "Can we get people to talk about this on camera?" is a bigger factor than "Is this a story that needs to be told?". Like there's very little more that needs to be said about Joe vs Necro, it's been covered to death over the years.

[Curt McGirt]

I'm sure Necro turning into a MAGA-t will be covered. This is an episode where I wonder if they got both people to talk on it. 

We always complain about these seasons before they happen and they always pull it out in the clutch. 

[HumanChessgame]

Necro could honestly get his own episode similar to Nick Gage. He was one of the guys taking US deathmatch wrestling exceptionally far in the 00s and that's pretty unseemly on its own. I seem to recall him also encountering domestic violence charges at some point, then there was him being wheelchair bound and in really bad shape for a while before eventually coming back again. Didn't he supposedly make a ton of money off of DraftKings at one point?

[Elsalvajeloco]

1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

I'm sure Necro turning into a MAGA-t will be covered. This is an episode where I wonder if they got both people to talk on it. 

We always complain about these seasons before they happen and they always pull it out in the clutch. 

Seeing a clip of him on X the other day reminded me, but they made an episode on Chris Colt when there wasn't a lot to talk about. If he of all people gets an episode, then the bar is easy to clear for a bunch of other people who at the very least have one interesting angle to possibly tackle.

[Sublime]

Necro could even have funny drug stories like the Chris Colt episode had, Necro talked about his love of, I think it was, LSD on the Art of Wrestling way back 

[Curt McGirt]

Since they just got the match to talk about there will probably be a long tangent about Necro's misadventures in that case. It'll be the Necro episode plus Samoa Joe.