10 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: The Double Life Of Chris Kanyon

7. Mitchell Almost Shot Him

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Mitchell and Kanyon's up and down friendship nearly ended in disaster.

This writer's eyes were almost bugging out of his skull when Mitchell told VICE that Kanyon wanted to make a porn flick that'd trick wrestlers into thinking he was straight. He no-showed the shoot, then got mad at Mitchell over it afterwards. The pair got into another fight, and James ended up pulling a gun on Chris.

All sorts of thoughts were running through the manager's head at this point. Kanyon had attacked and choked him out previously, so he was worried that his mate would go one step further the next time. Instantly, James began concocting a plan to make it look like self defence if he had to shoot Chris.

Man.

It's so sad to hear that Kanyon was prepared to go to these lengths in order to pretend that he was heterosexual. Mitchell knew it was bullsh*t, but he'd vowed to keep the truth a secret.

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