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Dark Side of the Ring - Season 1
This documentary series offers a different view of the world of free wrestling, which seems to be full of secrets. We live here more behind-the-scenes differences to mysterious deaths, manslaughter and many things still secret. This series explores those secrets about the darkest stories of the golden age of professional wrestling, where there seems to be more than we do not know and trying to find the truth behind it.
February 2, 1984 in Chico, California, USA
11 October 1965, San Francisco, California, USA
18 January 1954, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
June 19, 1978 in Canada
October 25, 1965 in Denver, Colorado, USA
24 September 1978, Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
June 19, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
April 10, 2019
Entertaining for everyone but essential viewing for wrestling fans.
April 12, 2019
Dark Side of the Ring proves these complex, often harrowing stories don't always end when the bell rings.
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
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 10, 2019
Wrestling might be fixed, but it's as real as life gets, as Dark Side of the Ring proves.
