Darkside of the Ring season 4 discussion.

[Browser Brady]

I think the Eddie Gilbert one could be quite interesting.

[boshealecta]

54 minutes ago, Dai said:

First episode of the new season was the Foley/Taker Hell In A Cell match. Thought you knew everything there is to do with this match? Well, you do, as evidenced by 45 minutes of the same stuff thats been said for 25 years (tooth in nose, didnt realise the cell would break, etc etc). Combine a story thats been told a million times, with footage thats been seen a million times, with some god awful talking heads (his kids, Al Snow amoungst others), and I think its a safe recommendation to say not to watch this unless youre watching with a really new fan.

Read this as AI (A.I) Snow. Which could be an interesting new gimmick. 

[Chili]

Thought the Foley one was fine even though I knew the story like most non-new viewers. I did perk up seeing Francois Petit again though, a delightful fella, he's someone up there with Jim Dotson as a non-wrestling presence in the attitude era that I completely forget existed and was on camera a lot.

[Roy]

On 3/28/2025 at 10:31 PM, Chili said:

Thought the Foley one was fine even though I knew the story like most non-new viewers. I did perk up seeing Francois Petit again though, a delightful fella, he's someone up there with Jim Dotson as a non-wrestling presence in the attitude era that I completely forget existed and was on camera a lot.

I thought so too. It was fine. Much trodden ground, by this point, but there's a different edge to these without the WWE gloss on them. The part about Foley silently sobbing on the cage when he saw it in the warehouse with Noelle one day was quite poignant, I thought.

[Chili]

Well Tony Halme/Ludvig Borga seemed like a right laugh didn't he.

[JNLister]

On 3/28/2025 at 10:11 PM, boshealecta said:

Read this as AI (A.I) Snow. Which could be an interesting new gimmick. 

 

[theringmaster]

The Al Snow thing about Hogan v Andre being the best match at WM3 is the biggest work of the last decade or so, Al Snow obviously does not think that and just said it to get a reaction (and it worked).

[Merzbow]

But it gave us Ian(?) with the all time golden shoot interview moment.

[Devon Malcolm]

1 hour ago, theringmaster said:

The Al Snow thing about Hogan v Andre being the best match at WM3 is the biggest work of the last decade or so, Al Snow obviously does not think that and just said it to get a reaction (and it worked).

This would suppose that Al Snow is smart enough to pull that off, and as he's regularly proven himself to be a huge idiot then I would say it's unlikely.

[theringmaster]

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

But it gave us Ian(?) with the all time golden shoot interview moment.

I have seen this pic many times, what was his actual reply??

 

Side note, I have seen so many of those clips from the show the screengrab is from,  where male wrestlers talk about what women wrestlers were 'hoes' back int he day, I was amazed they never resurfaced during speaking out, even when they aired like ten years ago i remember thinking how inappropriate they were.

[WyattSheepMask]

32 minutes ago, theringmaster said:

I have seen this pic many times, what was his actual reply??

 

Something along the lines of “if I’ve never drawn money then there’s been a lot of stupid people that have employed me for 30 something years”

[The King Of Swing]

I'll never get tired of seeing that pic. 

[Cannibal Man]

7 hours ago, theringmaster said:

Side note, I have seen so many of those clips from the show the screengrab is from,  where male wrestlers talk about what women wrestlers were 'hoes' back int he day, I was amazed they never resurfaced during speaking out, even when they aired like ten years ago i remember thinking how inappropriate they were.

the segment (like all KC stuff) was sub-sub-sub Eurotrash (so comparable Live TV! maybe) but 99% of the time the Ho Bag thing turned into whether they got along with the performer or not, don't really recall anyone biting but it's been years and if I ever got the urge to rewatch all of them i'd instead sign up for the marines immediately

[Chili]

I think it's Pete on Wrestle Me that's brought up how utterly weird Sean Oliver can be with his weird basement dweller fan type skits asking wrestlers to name which of their female co-worker's are whores etc

[davertfnewman]

Ken Anderson finally put everyone out of their misery by telling everyone how big Batista's dick was.

"It's not his dick, it's the size of his balls..."