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We also hear from the wrestlers, including The Warlord, from Powers of Pain, and B.

MushnickвЂ™s output more recently has made it clear that he hates absolutely everything about modern-day sports, but nothing more than Black athletes dancing after touchdowns. Also heard from is the particularly loathsome New York Post sports columnist Phil Mushnick, who frequently went toe-to-toe with McMahon in those days, and has claimed credit for McMahonвЂ™s indictment. Wade Keller of the PW Torch is (I believe) a first-time talking head in the Dark Side of the Ring series, while Dave Meltzer returns.

We get some talking heads in this doc who arenвЂ™t the usual ones. The difference was the nonsensical notions of the вЂњpurity of the gameвЂќ that were wielded about baseball never really applied to wrestling. That one also involved a vengeful federal prosecution against a key figure -В Barry Bonds, that time.

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The documentary didnвЂ™t really have time to delve into it, but itвЂ™s striking how different the reaction was to the McMahon steroid trial than to the Major League Baseball steroid scandal that followed about a decade later. The film interviews longtime WWF/WWE attorney Jerry McDevittВ and essentially presents him as the mastermind of the companyвЂ™s acquittal itвЂ™s a rare interview on Dark Side of someone currently associated with WWE. The steroid affair also led to a de-emphasis on Hogan and the muscled superstars that had dominated the company for the previous dozen years, and into the вЂњNew GenerationвЂќ era of smaller wrestlers like Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. (According to court drawings shown on the show Hogan, in that trial, actually wore a traditional suit in court, unlike the do-rag ensemble he sported when testifying in the Gawker lawsuit two decades later.) And because Hogan has a known tendency for exaggeration, he didnвЂ™t prove the greatest witness. The documentary also shows Hogan lying, on a memorable appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, about his use. Hulk Hogan served as the governmentвЂ™s star witness, while also testifying that he had himself used steroids. McMahon resulted in an acquittal the following year, but as the documentary shows, it was still a watershed moment in wrestling history. But overall, itвЂ™s a fair telling of this story. But this weekвЂ™s season finale looks at the most prominent story of that kind, in the form of two trials in the 1990s: When WWF ringside doctor George Zahorian was accused of giving steroids to wrestlers, and then when Vince McMahon and WWE were indicted in 1993 on federal charges that they distributed steroids to wrestlers.ДЄs is often the case with Dark Side of the Ring, this subject could have used an extra half hour to go into further depth. Sure, performance-enhancing drugs have come up from time to time on previous episodes. It was probably inevitable that Dark Side of the Ring would eventually explore the history of WWE and steroids. Dark Side of the Ring, вЂњThe Steroid TrialsвЂќ

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