Dark Side Of The Ring season 4
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Meltzer was 12 in 1971. Maybe he Had Lil Davie's Wrestling Wrapsheet he handed to his friends but I don't think he actually starting covering it as a job till the early 80s. I am not disqualifying his passion for the sport, but when your livelihood depends on covering the sport, I am guessing that helps you keep that business going.
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Jim Ross explains why he will no longer appear on Dark Side of the Ring.
from comicbook.com:
Jim Ross has frequently appeared on Dark Side of the Ring acoss its first three seasons, commenting on topics such as The Plane Ride From Hell, The Brawl For All and the deaths of WWE stars like Owen Hart and Chris Benoit. However, Ross said on the latest Grilling JR podcast that he'll no longer appear on the show due to issues with how some of his comments have been edited. Neither of the series' creators — Jason Eisener and Evan Husney — have commented publicly on Ross' comments as of this writing.
"It's mixed. I have some problems with some Dark Side editing. I thought I was misrepresented a time or two in the edit," Ross said. "But I mean, I admire those guys' entrepreneurial spirit and I think it's a good purpose, but I think sometimes they bite into the apple of the dirt. They narrowcast a little bit too much for me, but I'm still going to watch their shows."
"I'm not sure I'll be on any more of them simply because I had such unfortunate negative afterthoughts of it, but you know, you never know," he continued. "Those guys are good guys and they mean well, but I think the edit was a little bit callous and not well thought out quite frankly. So I hope they continue to do those shows, and if they do, I'll continue to watch and we'll see. They should get better at what they do."
from comicbook.com:
Jim Ross has frequently appeared on Dark Side of the Ring acoss its first three seasons, commenting on topics such as The Plane Ride From Hell, The Brawl For All and the deaths of WWE stars like Owen Hart and Chris Benoit. However, Ross said on the latest Grilling JR podcast that he'll no longer appear on the show due to issues with how some of his comments have been edited. Neither of the series' creators — Jason Eisener and Evan Husney — have commented publicly on Ross' comments as of this writing.
"It's mixed. I have some problems with some Dark Side editing. I thought I was misrepresented a time or two in the edit," Ross said. "But I mean, I admire those guys' entrepreneurial spirit and I think it's a good purpose, but I think sometimes they bite into the apple of the dirt. They narrowcast a little bit too much for me, but I'm still going to watch their shows."
"I'm not sure I'll be on any more of them simply because I had such unfortunate negative afterthoughts of it, but you know, you never know," he continued. "Those guys are good guys and they mean well, but I think the edit was a little bit callous and not well thought out quite frankly. So I hope they continue to do those shows, and if they do, I'll continue to watch and we'll see. They should get better at what they do."
Toothless Legend
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I really enjoyed Taz’s look behind the curtain on the infamous ring cave-in spot with Bam Bam.
joestevens29
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I mean how many times were they flexing their muscles? Who the hell does that shit
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The Bash at the Beach and Jannetty ones will be goat rodeos. The latter especially feels like the kind of thing you shouldn't give too much oxygen too. Who knows how much, if any, of it is true.
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I just watch some documentary on Prime the other day. Was talking about the downside of wrestling with a lot of guys.
Jannetty was in it. What a freaking mess he looked like. Unless he had the flu I really don't know why he was on the episode.
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I bet that the only reason they got Bischoff was so he could take gratuitous shots at Russo and Meltzer. Dave didn’t even really serve a purpose other than to be an impartial party.
Jeff Jarrett was awesome though, that retelling of him waiting in the back I hadn’t known.
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Jarrett and Storm were the only ones worth listening to. The Russo/Bischoff stuff is so dumb and childish. 62 and 68 and they're still having just inane backs and forth. At least they couldn't shoehorn Cornette in there as well. WCW by that point was just beyond saving, and it's amazing 20+ years later it was everyone else's fault but whoever is recounting their side of the story.
Sheppy
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^ I was hoping they'd toss Cornette in there just to give his typical opinion of Russo.
That said, I was all for Russo burying that sack of shit Hogan at BAB 2000.
That said, I was all for Russo burying that sack of shit Hogan at BAB 2000.
Scandale du Jour
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Bischoff and Russo both came across as liars, IMO.
I think Jarrett was being honest, but he clearly seems to be more on Russo's side.
At the end of the day, Hogan, Bischoff and Russo are three scumbags.
I think Jarrett was being honest, but he clearly seems to be more on Russo's side.
At the end of the day, Hogan, Bischoff and Russo are three scumbags.
I’ll go Ed Ferrara
Tbh I thought it was the most compelling episode of the season, I didn’t really know anything about Bash at the Beach 2000 though
Probably because it was different then {Wrestler X} did to many drugs and died early, which seems to be the bulk of this year's episodes
Grackle Party
Full of guts!!
The top 3 spots are all occupied by Vince McMahon
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The Jarretts later brought in Russo as TNA was starting, so that made sense.
