10 Times Wrestlers Pulled Back The Curtain
5. Beyond The Mat
Barry Blaustein's Beyond The Mat is a remarkable slice of wrestling and film history not just for what it inimitably documents, but for how much access it gained to the backstage area of WWE during visits in both 1997 and 1999.
The second trip to TitanSports in particular is the most interesting of the two. With the company still facing an uphill battle against WCW at the time it made sense for them to let a few outsiders in the door, but things were massively different a couple of years later.
WWE was a booming empire on the cusp of even greater growth thanks to considerable mainstream presentation and floatation on the New York Stock Exchange. But as Blaustein new, they were still a wrestling company first.
The Royal Rumble WWE Championship match between Mankind and The Rock was hard enough to stomach without watching through the terrified eyes of Mick Foley's family, but that's what we got. Ultimately, WWE didn't want the film getting out there, but any attempts to stop it only made marketing it's release that little bit easier.