After the Jimmy Snuka After-Show Debacle, VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ May Be Going … Dark. For Real.
What to Make of the Intriguing Testimony of Sam (Tonga Kid) Fatu in the ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Episode on the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder of Nancy Argentino?
April 20, 2020“‘Dark Side of the Ring’ blandly convicts Snuka in the court of public opinion, blanket-censoring the whole story” (full text from SLAM! Wrestling)
April 21, 2020PREVIOUSLY:
“Time For a Deep Dive Into the VICE TV / ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ Censorship of My ‘Live-to-Tape’ Interview About the Ongoing Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder Cover-Up in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania,” https://concussioninc.net/?p=14399
“Muchnick on Irish Podcast ‘Off the Ball’ Pro Wrestling Edition, Discussing Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka’s Murder of Nancy Argentino and Other Topics,” https://concussioninc.net/?p=14403
“VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Producers: We’re Not Responsible For the Train Wreck That Was VICE TV’s ‘Dark Side of the Ring After Dark’ on the Jimmy Snuka Murder Case,” https://concussioninc.net/?p=14410
“What to Make of the Intriguing Testimony of Sam (Tonga Kid) Fatu in the ‘Dark Side of the Ring’ Episode on the Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka Murder of Nancy Argentino?”, concussioninc.net/?p=14417
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In his daily online update yesterday, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter noted that “after all the controversy” last week from the edition of VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring After Dark panel discussion show, following the first broadcast by the main Dark Side of the Ring documentary series of the episode on the Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka-Nancy Argentino murder case, tonight’s TV listings don’t show the customary new After Dark following the next DSOTR episode.
So there is speculation that After Dark might be kaput. Listings do, however, show a rebroadcast of last week’s After Dark. “All the controversy” there, of course, involved the censorship of almost everything I had said in what was supposed to be a “live to tape” interview.Next, Concussion Inc. will be reprinting the piece I wrote about the After Dark outrage, first published April 15 at SLAM! Wrestling.
WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (ECW Press, 2007)
JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino’s Death in Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s Motel Room (ebook, 2013)