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This’ll be incredibly interesting yet depressing also.
Vice Media is getting back into the MMA game, but this time they’re taking a deeper look into the shadows.
Longtime fans of the sport may remember Fightland, a combat sports focused arm of Vice Media that was largely funded by the UFC. When most of the money to fund your site is coming from the promotion you’re covering, that coverage tends to sand off most rough edges it finds. That was certainly the case with Fightland, and the quality of the site suffered because of it.
There’s no such softening going on with Vice’s ‘Dark Side Of’ shows, which started with Dark Side Of The Ring, focusing on the many horrible things that have happened in the world of pro wrestling. That was followed by Dark Side of Football and the less sports-centered Dark Side of Comedy, Reality TV, 90s, and 2000s.
And now: Dark Side of the Cage.
Dark Side of the Cage will cover some of the legendary sketchy and horrific incidents that have happened around the sport of mixed martial arts over the past three decades. The show debuts January 8th and is part of a larger pivot the recently restructured Vice Media will be making to sports programming.
No actual sports, mind you: just programming about sports. Documentary-style stuff, which is really how Vice took off in the first place.
The trailer for the show promises episodes on Evan Tanner, Kimbo Slice, Diego Sanchez, War Machine, The Ultimate Fighter, Nick Diaz, Ronda Rousey, Matt Hughes, and the rise and fall of PRIDE. Not a bad lineup for a first season, and there’s certainly a lot more skeletons in the closet if they want to do seasons two through twenty.
Pride Before The Fall was very interesting and I have read it a couple times now. The author is an OGer (though I don’t remember which one) and he doesn’t pull too awful many punches, whether it’s with Pride or the Gracies.
Yes fo su
Where can I watch? Subscription needed?
I predict Dana will throw a tantrum, call everyone goofs and lie about things he’s previously said on camera.
it will be posted
NEVER DIE
I dig the Dark Side rassling series. I will definitely watch the mma version.
Travis Fulton deserves an episode. Gary Goodrich and McGregor and Spencer Fisher too.
Fujita’s skull alone deserves an episode, and Jonny Jones could support a two-parter.
Robin Black is very cool
VICE is fucking lame though
A lot of people are about to make Dana’s naughty list.
Don’t really seem like “UFC/Dana bad” type stories tbh.
If they were going that route Spencer Fisher would be on there. Dana pretty much said “tough shit” when he was asked about him a few years ago.
I don’t know that guy was always a mess. He would have needed someone to intervene in his life in his early teens to really have any hope to help him. His entire life was a disaster.
yes
They have lots of major criminals to do stories on with Phil Baroni, Joe Son, Lee Murray etc.