“Dark Side Of The Ring” is about to drop its seventh season via VICETV, and co-creator Evan Husney recently appeared on an episode of Talk Is Jericho to discuss topics for the show’s latest installment. Back in the third season of the highly successful wrestling documentary series, the show told the story of WWE Hall Of Famer The Ultimate Warrior. One aspect to the Ultimate Warrior’s story that didn’t make the cut, however, was WCW’s Warrior ripoff, The Renegade.
Husney told Chris Jericho: “Back when we were doing season three, we were doing the episode about Ultimate Warrior. And one of the story threads you think would make the cut—but of course it just seems ridiculous in hindsight—we were going to get into The Renegade a little bit in that Ultimate Warrior episode. And we had interviewed people about it. We had interviewed, like, a handful of people about it. But obviously it just got cut for time. It didn’t really make sense to kind of throw in this other guy who wasn’t really related to him in any way. But that’s always kind of been on the back burner as a great story, and people have always been at us to do it.”
Turns out there was more to The Renegade’s story than initially thought. Husney explained: “It wasn’t until, for whatever reason this season, we tracked down his first wife and we tracked down some of his friends, and it just kind of then—sometimes it proves you just got to do a little bit of the work and a little bit more of the research—and then, whoa, a whole story emerges. Honestly, we weren’t sure, could it carry its own episode, its own hour? And then just when you start doing research and talking to people, you’re like, ‘Oh, absolutely it can,’ because his whole life story is obviously very tragic.”
Check out the full Talk Is Jericho episode below.
