Dark Side of the Ring co-director reveals which potential episode topic fell through
Recently speaking to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Dark Side of the Ring co-director Evan Husney revealed receiving requests to work on the Heroes of Wrestling PPV.
Almost three decades ago, in October 1999, the Heroes of Wrestling PPV took place, which featured a main event between Jim Neidhart and King Kong Bundy against Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Yokozuna. The show was filled with multiple controversies, and according to Husney, has become a much-requested episode topic.
“I’ll say about Heroes of Wrestling, because that’s another one that always comes up. I’ll say that we were like that close to doing it, I think last year we were going to do it and we had like everybody lined up and just like the sort of linchpin character fell through,” he said.
“I don’t feel like rolling the dice that it’s gonna be what it should be. But we had some people who had worked behind the scenes on the show who had wild stories. Never say never, though; it could rear its head around at another time,” he added.
Husney continued that they were very close to working on the Heroes of Wrestling episode on Dark Side of the Ring, and it was a potential episode topic that eventually fell through. “But that one we were very close on, and it was too bad because that would be a good one. But obviously it does make a lot of people not look very good too at the same time.” (H/T Fightful)
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