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Dark Side of the Ring - Season 1
It is a series of documentary events that provide a historical overview of the world of free wrestling and its deadly gravity. Events begin with behind-the-scenes differences into mysterious deaths and murder, as the series explores the darkest stories of the golden age of professional wrestling. There seems to be more deadly dramatic secrets, as the series tries to find the truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality at one time.
September 10, 1949 in Sunset Beach, Hawaii, USA
June 13, 1960 in Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, Canada
October 25, 1957 in Nagasaki, Japan
October 25, 1965 in Denver, Colorado, USA
August 5, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan
8 September 1971, Winchester, Virginia, USA
11 October 1965, San Francisco, California, USA
September 15, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
September 23, 1965
August 13, 1949 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, USA
January 24, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA
April 10, 2019
Entertaining for everyone but essential viewing for wrestling fans.April 12, 2019
It feels as if the viewer is being worked, as if the industry vets featured here are doing what they can to keep the ambiguities at the heart of their livelihood as obfuscated as they once were. In that sense, it's as thrilling as a live wrestling show.April 10, 2019
Wrestling might be fixed, but it's as real as life gets, as Dark Side of the Ring proves.April 10, 2019
But for proof that wrestling's appeal hinges on the push-pull between truth and invention, one need look no further than Dark Side of the Ring itself.April 12, 2019
Dark Side of the Ring proves these complex, often harrowing stories don't always end when the bell rings.