For seven seasons, Dark Side of the Ring has told harrowing real life stories from the wrestling world. These stories are sometimes told by the individuals who lived them or accounts given by those most closely connected to the stories. Dark Side of the Ring will kick off its latest season on Tuesday, July 7 with a two-hour premiere concerning the history of TNA Wrestling. Next week, it’ll return to its hour-long format with the conclusion of TNA’s story.
On an episode of “Talk Is Jericho”, the show’s co-creator, Evan Husney said that calling the show “Dark Side of the Ring” is “the worst thing-slash-the-best-thing. It’s spawned all these spinoff shows which have been very successful. That is worked out for us obviously, but it surely’s also been possibly not probably the most accurate method to describe the show, especially because it evolved from season to season. We’re principally just focused on telling human, emotional stories in wrestling. We wish to humanize the people on this sport, entertainment, what have you ever because we felt for thus a few years it is so misunderstood and that individuals never took it seriously. They at all times brushed it off. It was at all times ‘is not it that fake thing?'” Husney said that they tried to get a scripted series and nobody would take it seriously, but they felt people would relate to those stories, even when you aren’t a fan. Husney admits that having dark side within the name makes people think it’s an exposé and it’s still something they fight against.
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