10 Wrestling Documentaries That Accidentally Uncovered Major Scoops

2. Dark Side Of The Ring: As Advertised

The Dark Side Of The Ring series is a compelling and necessary exploration of the industry's gross underbelly.

It's often lighter than the subject material suggests. It was stirring to watch Kevin Von Erich somehow enjoy some semblance of a live in Hawaii, seeing David Benoit and Sandra Toffolini reunited, a sober Jake Roberts still surviving.

When it's dark, it's very dark - and yet more pitch-black awfulness creeps into the subtext.

The Ric Flair episode was infamous and rightly so; for too long, the Plane Ride from Hell was put over amongst some wrestling fans as some sort of frat comedy sequel. Dark Side of the Ring recalibrated the story as the shameful chapter in pro wrestling history that it always was. In addition to Tommy Dreamer involuntarily revealing that he's a moron, the documentary also captured certain people who were on the flight casually revealing the practise of "H-bombing": spiking the drinks of unaware peers as a rib. This led to the meltdown of Michael Hayes.

Many of us have seen certain Brutus Beefcake shoot interviews, which implicate certain wrestlers spiking people for reasons far more sinister than making a tw*t of a fellow wrestler.

But, on national television, viewers were asked to connect the dots between the practise and who became victim to it on countless other flights.