13 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: Ludvig Borga
1. Christer Was The One Who Found Tony Dead
Christer was going over to his friend's place for Tony's birthday celebrations a few days after Halme's 47th birthday when he found his childhood pal dead. At first, Christer couldn’t get into the apartment, so he called the police and that’s when they found that Halme had shot himself. This happened on 10 January 2010.
Anybody thinking that VICE's doc would try to go down the sympathy route for Halme after talking about this was wrong. Deedee said she “didn’t shed a tear” and wasn’t surprised to hear that Tony had taken his own life. "What does a person do to another person where you don’t even get emotional about that?", she said. Then, Deedee closed with: “He was a piece of sh** and he burned the bridges - he treated people horribly”.
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That's when JR showed up to say Tony was an "a**hole". Yeah, there wasn't a lot of sympathy going around here, but that would've been a weird left turn for the documentary anyway considering everything that had been discussed earlier. Most would concur that Tony Halme was not a nice human being by any stretch of the imagination.
He surely had nice moments in his life, but on the whole he was a bitter man who was openly racist and violent. Obviously, it wasn't great for Christer to find his friend dead. Nobody would wish that on anyone, and it's abundantly clear he's haunted by the memory of it when speaking about 2010 today.
What a story VICE weaved here - it was one less about wrestling, and more about someone wrestling with himself.
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