The creators of Dark Side Of The Ring are responding to unfair criticism of their show and it will benefit a good cause.
Dana Warrior recently spoke out about VICE’s Dark Side Of The Ring and referred to the series as “smut and filth.” Dana’s response came after she shared a personal photo of her husband, the late Ultimate Warrior, on Instagram while promoting the A&E Biography episode about him. A fan asked Dana about her awareness of the show, and she made it clear that she had no part in the project.
Now, Dark Side Of The Ring has revealed they created a shirt in honor of the “recent description” of their show, now up for sale on Pro Wrestling Tees. Proceeds from the “Smut And Filth” tee will go to QUEER | ART in New York, a non-profit arts organization “serving a diverse and vibrant community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.”
Inspired by a recent description of our show, this new limited edition shirt has been released on @PWTees. https://t.co/x3kHSU9KFG
All profits will go to @queerartnyc in support of LGBTQ+ artists. pic.twitter.com/J35kauxOzu
— Dark Side of the Ring (@DarkSideOfRing) May 27, 2021
Dark Side Of The Ring pulls back the curtain on some of professional wrestling’s most infamous stories in a dramatic and compelling way. Evan Husney & Jason Eisener, co-producers of the show, spoke with WrestleZone ahead of the season three premiere of the series on VICE. The pair talked about the excitement of not only heading into the season but the general response and demand for the show.
“A lot of these difficult stories to tell and in revisiting pretty traumatic stuff, we definitely want to make sure that we’re not exploiting that for our show that is somewhat successful now. We want to make sure that we’re telling these stories and there really is kind of a motivating factor and a purpose for it at the end of the day,” Dark Side’s Evan Husney explained.
“And I think the Grizzly Smith one is a really good example of that. Even though Jake [Roberts] and his siblings Robin and Sam Houston, they’ve come up through a pretty traumatic upbringing, but I think for them a huge motivating factor of wanting to be a part of that episode was to try and help people. If people who have been through similar things, or they don’t know where to go or who to talk to, [this series shows them] ‘This is like what we’ve been through and we’ve survived and come through the other side and now it’s our chance of kind of giving back.’ I think for us it’s really just finding that purpose in some of the darker stories,” Husney said, “but also trying to find a way that it can have some function.”
Check out the full interview below:
