{"id":14393,"date":"2020-04-15T05:53:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:20","slug":"14393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=14393","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dark Side of the Ring&#8217; Blanket-Censors the Jimmy Snuka Murder Cover-Up Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>&#8230; While&nbsp;<em>Dark Side of the Ring<\/em>&nbsp;left the overriding impression that Snuka did it, and even ambushed two new voices into inadvertently revealing as much, executive producer Evan Husney and crew also left on the cutting-room floor the most important points I had made in our sit-down interview last October in Las Vegas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But worse than the show itself was their cut-and-paste mash-up of a post-show panel discussion, in which I was pitted with those well-known criminologists and seventh-hand witnesses: Greg &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; Valentine and Brian &#8220;Nasty Boy&#8221; Knobbs. There, the VICE team violated their representation to me, prior to our April 3 taping, of a &#8220;live to tape&#8221; session. Blatantly, shamelessly, they censored almost every single supplementary remark I made. All of them were both accurate and measured&#8230;.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full article is live at SLAM! Wrestling, <a href=\"https:\/\/slamwrestling.net\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/guest-column-dark-side-of-the-ring-blandly-convicts-snuka-in-the-court-of-public-opinion-blanket-censoring-the-whole-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/slam.canoe.com\/Slam\/Wrestling\/2020\/04\/15\/22806327.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal<\/em> (ECW Press, 2007), <a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=2320\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=2320<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino&#8217;s Death in Jimmy &#8220;Superfly&#8221; Snuka&#8217;s Motel Room<\/em> (ebook, 2013), <a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=2328\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=2328<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; While&nbsp;Dark Side of the Ring&nbsp;left the overriding impression that Snuka did it, and even ambushed two new voices into inadvertently revealing as much, executive producer<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Dark Side of the Ring&#039; 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