“The Dark Side of the Ring” has been a smash hit for VICE, but it’s had its detractors over how some of their episodes have been done.
While they seem fair and balanced at times, there are others where the views shared did feel slanted one way or another.
Some have stopped working with the show while others continue to do so, so any issues seem to depend on one’s perspective or what’s being shared.
Bruce Prichard falls into the category of not working with them anymore, and he shared his views when he appeared on the 400th episode of “Something To Wrestle With” podcast in august.
Slanted view
While on the show, Prichard took fan questions and when he was asked about “The Dark Side of the Ring” he told the fans he wasn’t going to work with them again and why.
Special thanks to wrestlingnews.co for the following transcript.
“I can’t watch those things. I think that they just dwell on negativity and lies and bullsh-t and hearsay and they exploit that and so much of it is based on, you know, the rumor and innuendo and just complete 100% bullsh-t.
“The producers do their homework to the extent that satisfies them. When you dispute their homework and give them facts that don’t support their story and their narrative, they choose to ignore it and that is why I have not done anything since the first ones that I did for the first season and I will never do anything with them again because I do not like the way that they present stories because they’re only looking for negativity to exploit, and in my old age, I learn there’s a lot more than negativity. Why not exploit some positive messages and some good sh-t? You know what it should be called? The Lies of the Ring because a lot of what they present as fact are 100% bullsh-t unsubstantiated lies, and when given facts, they choose to ignore them.”
Prichard has been in the business for decades and is best known as Brother Love in the WWE during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Since then he’s been an executive with the WWE and TNA and he has a vast wrestling knowledge, so it’s wise to take him at this word, but could he be exaggerating?
Maybe, maybe not. Only he and those that were there know for sure, but we any show lives for sensationalism anymore and there were a couple of times that made us wonder.
What do you think about Prichard’s claims? Let us know in the comments below.
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