Dark side of the Ring to do MMA series

I haven’t watched pro wrestling in decades but do enjoy the stories of the wrestlers when I was growing up. I sometimes forget how old I am and just assume fans are TUF noobs these days. When in reality most weren’t born during the dark days of the sport.

Should be good.

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Wow, could be really good if they put the same effort as they did with the pro wrestling DSOTR…

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I was saying just that in the Dark Side of the Ring thread… MMA has a ton of stories perfect for a Dark Side of the Ring series.

I’m sure they thought of it as soon as the original series was successful, its a no-brainer.

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I hope there’s some cool shit.

As big of a fan as I was for so long going way back I am familiar with so many of the stories.

Whereas wrestling, I was a kid and I didn’t know that shit for the guys I watched and the res of them I know some names but nothing else which makes the stories interesting.

Hopefully not a rehash for me but for sure some potential if they can do the same quality as what they’ve been doing!

I wonder what they’ll cover. I think most of the obvious ones have been done by similar style shows or docs.

There was a good one about Josh Samman I watched recently

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Lee Murray is an obvious one.

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We can find out what happened to Jon Hess.

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Done to death with the Showtime documentary on the heist.

I’m here for the episodes on Cole Conrad and Mark Huges.

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Fair enough.

How about Mike Russow and him refusing to stop hammer-fisting Todd Duffee despite the referee’s wishes, eventually leading to Duffee’s untimely death in the Octagon?

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Why you gotta bring me to that place bro?

That shit was locked away deep in the repressed memory vault.

Brutal graphic shit.

RIP Todd :cry:

There is a lot to work with… the whole Fallon Fox debacle is one that needs to be made… but I doubt they do it due to Vice’s extreme leftist politics.

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They could do one on Mayhem, Crazy Horse, Tank, Evan Tanner … lot’s of possibilities.

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The Crazy horse stories alone would be interesting.

If they can get people to talk, the jon jones’ shit will blow people’s minds.

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Joe Son, Ryan Gracie, Bobby Hoffman, Amar Suloev, Igor Zinovev, Jon Jones, Conor etc…

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Naoto Morishita, Brennan Ward etc…

The list of MMA Dark Side episodes is endless.

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Travis Fulton? Maybe. Doesn’t fit the show’s usual theme though, which is how pro wrestling, or MMA in this case, screwed up someone’s life.

Junie Browning? LOL. Rampage, Mark Shultz, Rampage, Bryce Mitchell, even back to Gene LeBell.

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Baroni.

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Spencer Fisher. Broke, obvious CTE and Dana pretty much said tough shit when asked about him. That’s the kind of story Vice jumps on.

Stephan Bonnar is another prospect. He went from normal likable guy to downhill pretty fast when he was done fighting.

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