@@makeitthrough_ Jim Cornett has vast wrestling knowledge. However, he really needs to let somebody’s grudges go. It seems like he’s the type of guy that would rather die a rage induced heart attack then just let stuff go. Paul Heyman is on the lower end of rants. Vince Russo, the ultimate warrior, and even a Shawn Michaels are way more on his shit list. Add Kenny omega in the young bucks to that list to.
I feel bad for Chris. A good guy hopelessly devoted to the wrong woman. She used him as a spare tire. He deserved better. If Chris was still alive she would've still been as horrible as she is now. RIP Chris.
It’s sad. He got involved with the wrong woman, a sheep in wolves clothing or however the saying goes. I had a somewhat similar experience with a woman last year that, on the outside seemed genuine, faithful and battled and overcame her addictions. Then reality set in snd I came to learn everything she was doing not in my presence. She’s like a Tammy Sytch but not at the most dangerous level Tammy is at. Gotta be weary and mindful of who you get involved with. Chris literally did everything for that woman only to be given nonstop heartbreak in return. Tammy is exactly where she belongs!
As a talker, manager and booker, he's talented af, but as a businessman he's one of (if not) the most shady pieces of garbage who ever ran a wrestling company. He and Vince are two sides of the same coin, just pure greed incarnate
@@makeitthrough_ Who did Vince completely screw over out of payment? I have a hard time believing they wouldn't have sued Vince friggin McMahon. Also, it's a carny business. This is what carnys doe. It's one step above outlaw living but still in a similar field.
@@xlixity And who's to say individuals haven't TRIED to sue VKM over debt/him owing them money?? Like u said-- it VINCE 'FRIGGIN'' McMAHON!! He has all the MONEY needed to hire among the VERY 'BEST' in legal defense!!
Sunny deserve everything that’s coming to her and I don’t wish bad on people but wish every single thing that’s coming her way, also let’s not forget she also had a affair with Davie boy after Shawn and according to Justin Credible she also made a pass to him while Candido was showering at his mother house where they were all cool. As for Paul Heyman let’s not act that Paul is a good person nowadays,despite owing a whole lot of people money including owing his ECW alumni’s such Sabu,RVD,Tommy Dreamer, Sandman,Terry Funk and God know how many more who stick their necks out for him. RIP Candido episode similar to Kanyon but not that dark both were underrated and Deserve Better. Excited for the Magmum TA episode as well
Heyman did the same thing to Sabu. Sabu paid for the Dudley’s flight to Japan with a promise that he would be reimbursed. He never got the money and Heyman refused to let Sabu out of his contract to go to WCW.
Knew a lil bit about each of their careers, but man when they got to Chris' passing and every single one of them started to get choked up and cry, that told me all I needed to know about the guy. He was finally gonna get it turned around while in TNA. Sadly he didnt get the chance to fully. This was a good episode.
I loved this episode and have fond memories of watching Chris perform in ECW. However since I work for a bank I can confirm that no individual consumer can rack up $170,000.00 in debt on a credit card. I know this was in the early 2000’s but that did not happen. If they lost their house due to the debt he incurred due to Paul Heyman, that means they mortgaged their home to fund the talent flights, etc. which honestly makes what Heyman did to them much worse.
It could simply be that debt was accumulated on multiple credit cards, not just one. In the various retellings, sometimes its one card, other times it's several cards, possibly under each of their names.
When I was sixteen and didn't know any better, I had a crush on Tammy and was jealous of Candido. Now, however, I'm ashamed of that and feel bad for Candido. Obviously he loved her but she treated him like shit because she is a terrible human being.
14:58 when watching this episode (never saw the PPV the injury took place on) I said to myself “What the hell was that camera guy doing in there?!” Like all other companies that have had cage matches never had their camera guys in the cage (to my knowledge).
For every story of Paul Heyman being a creative genius, there are countless stories of him destroying the lives of the people who trusted him. Fantastic performer, but what scummy person.
Nice to see DSOTR is back with a bang! I thought it got canceled due to WWE’s meddling though? It really is tragic what happened with Chris. He was a good worker, and from what I’ve heard, not a bad guy either. And considering the era he resided in, that says A LOT. He deserved more from life than he got.
just to tell you a fun fact dark side of the ring it never got cancelled the creator of dark side of the ring says that dark side of the ring never got cancelled and the whole story of them get cancelled was not and never true because it was just rumors and then after that he says that after season 4 is finished there is and will be a season 5 of dark side of the ring and then is gonna be a another new episode tonight about Magnum ta so i think you should watch it if you can
I've never heard of WWE meddling with Dark Side of the Ring. I imagine that since wrestlers aren't too bright, and have horrific pasts, and don't want to incriminate themselves, and it's just getting harder to find wrestlers that want to talk, and they're running dry on episodes. We'll be lucky to get one more season.
@@dwaynejpeterkin oh okay so that was what happened wow i didn't know cool thanks but wait even though the pandemic they were still doing season and they were still film and i don't think they were running out of ideas so yeah
@@EdwardDuncan-c8c your welcome and they were after the owen hart, eddie guerrero and benoit stories were done they had a hard time finding big ideas that will keep people tuning in so they were scrambling on ideas also they have other darkside shows being film for comedy and etc as they film it in toronto
Listen to one of Dutch’s most recent clips about Paul Heyman, he straight up tells a couple stories about him stealing from WCW and getting fired…The guy is something else
Was just watching a clip from Dutch's podcast and apparently Tammy's Reign of Infidelity started in Smokey Mountain Wrestling or maybe even before that, so Chris was putting up with A LOT from the beginning.
Paul Heyman is lucky to be alive today. He would of been in a terrible state like that FMW guy Shochi Arai whom went through a lot when FMW was in the same downfall as ECW.
Chris was a simp for Tammy, and she knew it. Wrestlers claim to respect/love Chris Candido, but Shawn wasn't the only one smashing Tammy btw. RIP "NO GIMMICKS NEEDED" CHRIS CANDIDO
So I went back in time to 1989 to stop her. Tammy and I were having nice casual chat in some restaurant, and then I introduced her to _some_ dude. A day later, Tammy Sytch was found dead in a ditch. With Tammy out of the way, Chris Candido can concentrate fully on his wrestling career and see how it takes off.
It's really sad how chris passed away. A broken ankle from trying to not hit a cameraman on a bump. Now I don't know how much of the story is true but the episode clearly showed tammy as being the thing that just slowly ruined chris's life. Which yeah she did horrible shit with cheating on him and getting into drugs but i also think chris never stood up because he wanted to fit in and tammy was more popular. This was the first time i seen of tammy in smokey mountain and my gosh she was a amazing heel. Trying to pose as "See women can suceed" while actively kicking every other woman down to stay ontop while also demeaning women she thinks isn't as perfect as her. My gosh i totally could picture what someone thought for the bodydonas with her trash talking others saying they're all unfit to be around her.
When people point out how righteous Shawn Michaels is and retroactively correct his past, they need to remember this part of his life. Not just the Tammy cheating part, but the fact that Shawn, knowing Chris would do nothing about it, still was such a chicken shit that he still had Nash and Hall watch the door of the room they were banging in, just in case Chris or anyone else tried to call him on it. The more I think about how much of a blatantly slimey coward he was, the less respect I have for him.
@@officerperez Any red blooded male would've given it to Tammy back then. And if Shawn was such a chicken shit then why did Chris tolerate Tammy cheating even after they left the WWF. In fact why did Chris's own friends have Sunny days too behind Chris's back.
@wizzer wiser So, I guess the fact that everybody did it absolves Shawn then? And it doesn't make everyone less of a jerk because last I checked, Shawn was the only one having others do the fighting for him (and he had no shame in admitting he did that in a cocky manner because he knew he couldn't fight and would only do it if he had a chance of winning so basically being a bully). As if that wasn't bad enough, you were threatened with losing your job if you won the fight. And, yeah, Chris takes some level of responsibility for not leaving, but again, that doesn't make Shawn a retroactive saint.
@@officerperez > _"So, I guess the fact that everybody did it absolves Shawn then?"_ It kinda does. When you allow everyone to bang your girl, you're implicitly stating you're ok with it. Chris, for all his virtues, was a cuckold.
This was an excellent episode of Dark Side of the Ring Jim Cornette is easily the MVP of these documentaries Chris Candido was awesome in ECW he was great in the Triple threat i gotta do research on his Smokey mountain wrestling run.
If Candido was still alive today and separated himself from Tammy, I have no doubt he would be either wrestling part time, being manager, backstage producer or even a coach teaching the next generation
He didn't want to separate from Tammy though. He was well-aware half the locker room, including his friends, were blowing out Tammy's back and did nothing about it. If knowing you're getting sloppy 33rds doesn't make you want to leave your girl, nothing will.
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I was a fan of Chris like most people that watch wrestling in the 90s, I meant when I first saw him I was a young fan and he and Tammy were heels in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, but looking back you can tell that for it being there first real gig they were both very good. The one thing about the story though, and I really thought the Darkside of the ring would at least have the balls to tell all of the truth , we can’t pick and choose which part of the shoot interviews we want to believe but then if it makes one of the guys that we really like look bad like Brian, Pillman, or Davey boy Smith, then we just pretend that part didn’t happen. This story that she was just this innocent girl that never did anything wrong until she met Sean Michaels and then he and only he was the only one that knocking boots with her while she was with Chris is just a flat out lie. I want to kill some people will take her information from certain shoot interviews and run with. It is gold, but things sit in the same interviews. They’ll just pretend didn’t happen. No one it was not just HBK , and it was Davey boy Smith, it was Raven, it was hack, and Brian Pillman in those are just the ones we know of that have come to light. And I think Chris was a great talent, but at the same time dude you have to stand up for yourself. And this whole “well, what was he going to do stand up to Shawn Michaels? They would’ve given him a terrible gimmick, and made him do jobs to people like Berry Horowitz!” OK I don’t know if you guys were watching his WWF career but it’s not like he was a three time Intercontinental champion getting ready to win king of the ring when this started. He was already losing to jobbers and already had a bad gimmick, so it’s not like that world title shot that Vince McMahon told him about on the next ppv’s was going to be scratched off if he stood up to somebody. It is a sad story, and I do feel bad for him to a certain extent but a lot of it was unfortunately his fault and we have to stop doing this in the wrestling communities where we pick and choose parts of the story we want to tell. If you’re going to hold one person accountable for a sin, then you need to hold everyone else accountable for the same sin.
I loved ECW but always wondered wtf Paul was thinking having Tammy do that tell all interview on that episode. And I actually still have the VHS with the Kimona striptease (Extreme Warfare 1 or 2, I forget which one it's on exactly).
Thank god Tammy never got a scalpel in her hands. She's finally facing some significant prison time. She's not walking away from killing someone while driving drunk.
@@jerelminter 🤣 "celebrity status." That's adorable. I guarantee the cops and courts had no idea who she once was and could not have cared less when she undoubtedly told them again and again. She keeps walking away because it's a deeply flawed system, the rules of which are applied unevenly. She has no status, just blind luck and a double chin.
it still saddens me that chris died the way he did. with his history, you'd expect him to go out like pillman or test or any number of guys who got lost in booze and pills. but then he turns around and was on the cusp of a career resurgence, only to be taken out by a common wrestling injury. and yeah, if he lived, no doubt he would've been a mega star and probably training younger talent in either AEW or NXT.
This episode cemented my view of Heyman. Heyman is a guy who I like but don't respect one bit. How do you continually screw people over like that? He's lucky he didn't do that to New Jack, dude wouldn't even be alive for Tommy Dreamer to try to shoot him at Mania 17.
People forget wrestling was not this corporate pre-00s. It was still a carny business and that's what went on in carny businesses. You screwed and/or got screwed over. Tony Khan wouldn't have survived in the pre-90s with this "my employees are my friends and I'm their fan" attitude.
Not sure what gets me more.. hearing how Heyman pulled just the ultimate scumbag moves on, mostly loyal to him, people or said people just letting him away with it and then telling their stories of him fucking them over with smiles on their faces.
Let's be real if Chris was still alive, regardless of how great of a wrestler he was. Fans would have been chanting 'cuck' at him. We as a fandom aren't exactly the most mature people. Because the stories of Sunny cheati g on Chris were already becoming more well known thanks to the internet.
If Chris candido were alive today chances are he be a big star because he pretty much laid down the foundation for smaller wrestlers to get over. Chances are he'll probably would have been a trainer for aew, probably wouldn't see him working for WWE because of the issues that him and Shawn Michaels had but we don't know, chances are Shawn Michaels would have probably apologize for the stuff he did to him and maybe would have forgive him. And let's be honest If Shawn Michaels didn't had the power and influence as a big-time star, chances are Chris candido would have popped him in the mouth multiple times.
He should've took his chances and rocked Shawn's shit anyway. Being a big star won't protect you from someone deciding they want to go into business for themselves in the middle of a match because they think you're an asshole
Sorry but no. Was Chris a good wrestler absolutely. But boy was he boring or had 0 charisma. There’s a reason he only got over in the indies. He tried in both WWE and WCW and nothing happened. No disrespect but he wouldn’t of been a big star.
A big star? No way. I think people are being overly generous. I think he would have a job somewhere and certainly have a place in wrestling but I do not understand the "big star" label.
Heyman was vince part 2. Many stories. He owed so much money to talent. When you listen to him he admitted he got rich from the stock market but never put 1 cent of his personal momey tonsave his own company. God only knows if he actuwlly did. Ecw might have lasted longer
You'd be surprised how many women are out there exactly like Tammy Sytch. Tammy may have been the first because there's little difference between her and most modern women.
As much as this was hard to listen too especially the stuff about how oblivious it seemed Chris was to the affairs, the stuff with Heyman made me hate him. He had Tammy who i don't like at all and made me feel bad for her with that vlog and he sold it when it shouldn't have happened! I first saw Chris in WCW during his 2000 run at the time and thought he looked stacked, going back over the matches he could work like no one. Shame about how preventable his passing was. RIP Chris
He still would've developed an addiction due to his friendship with Balls. Tammy was an unfaithful ho, but plenty if not most men deal with a harlot and come out fine. Chris' problems were beyond his cuckoldry.
@@Dr_1212 the fact that the show try to cancel John Cena. It should show the kind of fools that run the show and the people involve since many wrestlers don’t wanna be involved in the show anymore
@Anderson Blitz many wrestlers don't want to be involved with the show anymore because it airs out dirty laundry that they wish didn't get exposed. There's no altruism to it, a lot of wrestlers are complete scumbags. Of course they don't want to incriminate themselves on video.
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I remember saying this from your mouth Solo, _"I wanna see a whole season on Tammy Sytch"_ Like I said in previous videos, _"I would like to think that if Tammy would have never met Chris/Tammy was r***d and killed then we would have a better timeline."_
Seeing corny getting emotional talking about candido death was heartbreaking plus dr Tom going off on how he hated the body donas. Sunny should of never gotten into the business and maybe she would of never became the trainreck she became. How could candido not know that Sunny was hooking up with hbk. Imagine if Chris candido was still alive, where would his career would be like today
When you said Haymen was a bad carnie guy was 100% right. Thank you for that, what a scummy guy Haymen is. I used to fish with a guy who was a Indy wrestler in New Jersey and his in ring name was Equalizer. First name Paul, don't remember the last name. He was also like a carpenter and stuff like that. Chris was the godfather of The Equalizer's children. That's how close they were. Paul did not like Tammy. My main problem with Tammy is not the wrestling stuff or even Chris who I feel so bad for. It's the danger Tammy caused in real life with her substance abuse. One person said before she killed that guy was "What's it going to take? Tammy kills someone?" Well, as we know that happened. So sickening. Thank you again for your wonderful program
Its shame what happened to Chris, he deserved a lot better One thing you noticed throughout this episode is that chris was a guy Too Loyal for his own good because when it came to Sunny, He was a straight Sucker. Not too mention Being more upset that he didn't finish a match rather than breaking his leg Regardless though, he was a great guy & great wrestler. Wish he had a better ending
She really must have been using her mouth cause usually in PA 3rd dui in 10 years is a mandatory 1-5 years state correction facility knew enough people with resources and the best they could get was 18 months state prison. How she got them back to back like that baffles me. Florida however does not play. The min man for dui manslaughter I think is 10 years. She got 17 she’ll do 15 I think. 85% and no parole in Florida
I'm sure if Chris Candido were alive today he would be an agent or trainer at NXT or AEW no doubt.
Hell he might still be wrestling
Working at NXT, side by side with Shawn Michaels:)
@@romibodoni 😂😂
Working in NXT under Shawn Michaels? I don’t know about that one chief
@@icantbeafraidofyou Stranger things have happened. Bret Hart forgiving Vince and coming back to WWE? Edge and Matt Hardy working together again?
Jim Cornette said it best about Paul Heyman: "Paul would rather climb a tree to tell a lie than to stand in front of a man's face to tell the truth"
More like:
"Paul Heyman would rather sit in a tree & tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth."
Jim Cornette would rather die of a rage-induced heart attack than let bygones be bygones
@@makeitthrough_ His feud with Vince Russo in a nutshell 💀.
Sounds like Jim was projecting...
@@makeitthrough_ Jim Cornett has vast wrestling knowledge. However, he really needs to let somebody’s grudges go. It seems like he’s the type of guy that would rather die a rage induced heart attack then just let stuff go. Paul Heyman is on the lower end of rants. Vince Russo, the ultimate warrior, and even a Shawn Michaels are way more on his shit list. Add Kenny omega in the young bucks to that list to.
I feel bad for Chris. A good guy hopelessly devoted to the wrong woman. She used him as a spare tire. He deserved better. If Chris was still alive she would've still been as horrible as she is now. RIP Chris.
That's most guys with western women today though.
It’s sad. He got involved with the wrong woman, a sheep in wolves clothing or however the saying goes. I had a somewhat similar experience with a woman last year that, on the outside seemed genuine, faithful and battled and overcame her addictions. Then reality set in snd I came to learn everything she was doing not in my presence. She’s like a Tammy Sytch but not at the most dangerous level Tammy is at. Gotta be weary and mindful of who you get involved with. Chris literally did everything for that woman only to be given nonstop heartbreak in return. Tammy is exactly where she belongs!
My ex was just like her.
On one hand we have Chris Candido who should've gotten a better second chance, and on the other is Tammy Sytch whose had too many second chances.
That's how life sadly is, it seems...
For all the good he has done for wrestling, I'm surprised that more people didn't beat Paul Heyman's ass.
Tommy Dreamer almost murdered him live at Mania X7.
As a talker, manager and booker, he's talented af, but as a businessman he's one of (if not) the most shady pieces of garbage who ever ran a wrestling company. He and Vince are two sides of the same coin, just pure greed incarnate
@@makeitthrough_ Who did Vince completely screw over out of payment? I have a hard time believing they wouldn't have sued Vince friggin McMahon.
Also, it's a carny business. This is what carnys doe. It's one step above outlaw living but still in a similar field.
@@xlixity Are u trying to 'justify' it?!?
@@xlixity And who's to say individuals haven't TRIED to sue VKM over debt/him owing them money?? Like u said-- it VINCE 'FRIGGIN'' McMAHON!! He has all the MONEY needed to hire among the VERY 'BEST' in legal defense!!
Tammy Sytch is a murderer and she’s still alive. Chris Candido broke his ankle and ended up dying. Life fucking sucks sometimes
Sunny deserve everything that’s coming to her and I don’t wish bad on people but wish every single thing that’s coming her way, also let’s not forget she also had a affair with Davie boy after Shawn and according to Justin Credible she also made a pass to him while Candido was showering at his mother house where they were all cool. As for Paul Heyman let’s not act that Paul is a good person nowadays,despite owing a whole lot of people money including owing his ECW alumni’s such Sabu,RVD,Tommy Dreamer, Sandman,Terry Funk and God know how many more who stick their necks out for him. RIP Candido episode similar to Kanyon but not that dark both were underrated and
Deserve Better. Excited for the Magmum TA episode as well
Man he paid them, they just forgot to cash the checks in time simple oversight on their part lol.
Just look at the mugshot from her fatal DUI crash. That's a woman who just killed a man and she's smiling.
Heyman did the same thing to Sabu. Sabu paid for the Dudley’s flight to Japan with a promise that he would be reimbursed. He never got the money and Heyman refused to let Sabu out of his contract to go to WCW.
XPW
@@deondrecarter153 Terry Funk said WCW in his shoot. Maybe he was mistaken.
@@ninjacape there war for right for Sabu between XPW and ECW
It’s safe to assume that Heyman is a real scumbag.
They need to have Solo on these DSOTR documentary. The knowledge he drops is unbelievable.
I'm surprised they didn't cover Balls Mahoney since he was probably the most influential person in Chris' wrestling life next to Tammy.
Knew a lil bit about each of their careers, but man when they got to Chris' passing and every single one of them started to get choked up and cry, that told me all I needed to know about the guy. He was finally gonna get it turned around while in TNA. Sadly he didnt get the chance to fully. This was a good episode.
If Tommy Dreamer would've done that live, it would be the death of wrestling in my opinion.
It was pretty much the end of mainstream wrestling either way.
Tammy is a total word that rhymes with hunt. Hope she stays locked up. Candido is one of the most underappreciated talents ever
I loved this episode and have fond memories of watching Chris perform in ECW. However since I work for a bank I can confirm that no individual consumer can rack up $170,000.00 in debt on a credit card. I know this was in the early 2000’s but that did not happen. If they lost their house due to the debt he incurred due to Paul Heyman, that means they mortgaged their home to fund the talent flights, etc. which honestly makes what Heyman did to them much worse.
It could simply be that debt was accumulated on multiple credit cards, not just one. In the various retellings, sometimes its one card, other times it's several cards, possibly under each of their names.
I liked Hard Knocks Chris Candido. Glad they focused on him. Sad ending but shows what good people can do as well.
“This episode did not paint Paul Heyman in a good light at all.”
I guess you could say The Wiseman wasn’t so wise in his ECW days.
D-Von Dudley said in The Rise of Fall of ECW said Paulie was a Wrestling Genius but was a horrible business man
When I was sixteen and didn't know any better, I had a crush on Tammy and was jealous of Candido. Now, however, I'm ashamed of that and feel bad for Candido. Obviously he loved her but she treated him like shit because she is a terrible human being.
14:58 when watching this episode (never saw the PPV the injury took place on) I said to myself “What the hell was that camera guy doing in there?!” Like all other companies that have had cage matches never had their camera guys in the cage (to my knowledge).
For every story of Paul Heyman being a creative genius, there are countless stories of him destroying the lives of the people who trusted him. Fantastic performer, but what scummy person.
Nice to see DSOTR is back with a bang! I thought it got canceled due to WWE’s meddling though?
It really is tragic what happened with Chris. He was a good worker, and from what I’ve heard, not a bad guy either. And considering the era he resided in, that says A LOT. He deserved more from life than he got.
just to tell you a fun fact dark side of the ring it never got cancelled the creator of dark side of the ring says that dark side of the ring never got cancelled and the whole story of them get cancelled was not and never true because it was just rumors and then after that he says that after season 4 is finished there is and will be a season 5 of dark side of the ring and then is gonna be a another new episode tonight about Magnum ta so i think you should watch it if you can
Nah it took awhile to film due to the pandemic and they were running out of ideas this season will keep you interested from the last season
I've never heard of WWE meddling with Dark Side of the Ring. I imagine that since wrestlers aren't too bright, and have horrific pasts, and don't want to incriminate themselves, and it's just getting harder to find wrestlers that want to talk, and they're running dry on episodes. We'll be lucky to get one more season.
@@dwaynejpeterkin oh okay so that was what happened wow i didn't know cool thanks but wait even though the pandemic they were still doing season and they were still film and i don't think they were running out of ideas so yeah
@@EdwardDuncan-c8c your welcome and they were after the owen hart, eddie guerrero and benoit stories were done they had a hard time finding big ideas that will keep people tuning in so they were scrambling on ideas also they have other darkside shows being film for comedy and etc as they film it in toronto
How did Paul Heyman not do time in jail?
His father is (or was) a lawyer.
Listen to one of Dutch’s most recent clips about Paul Heyman, he straight up tells a couple stories about him stealing from WCW and getting fired…The guy is something else
He's one of the tribe.
Where is the actual episode? It was on UA-cam but taken down?
Sunny brought him down. Paul screwed him for money. He needed a strong male friend who would give him advice.
He brought himself down. If you choose to stay with someone treating you like shit and do nothing about it you deserve that person in your life.
He DID have that. It was his own brother.
Getting away from an abusive partner is easier said than done. He did not deserve that you jackass
Was just watching a clip from Dutch's podcast and apparently Tammy's Reign of Infidelity started in Smokey Mountain Wrestling or maybe even before that, so Chris was putting up with A LOT from the beginning.
Yeah people like to act like it started with WWF, with Shawn. But if you look into it some more it clear Tammy was always a bad person.
Paul Heyman is lucky to be alive today. He would of been in a terrible state like that FMW guy Shochi Arai whom went through a lot when FMW was in the same downfall as ECW.
Chris was a simp for Tammy, and she knew it. Wrestlers claim to respect/love Chris Candido,
but Shawn wasn't the only one smashing Tammy btw.
RIP "NO GIMMICKS NEEDED" CHRIS CANDIDO
Chris died from a broken ankle, Tammy isn't dead but her career and her reputation is.
So I went back in time to 1989 to stop her. Tammy and I were having nice casual chat in some restaurant, and then I introduced her to _some_ dude. A day later, Tammy Sytch was found dead in a ditch. With Tammy out of the way, Chris Candido can concentrate fully on his wrestling career and see how it takes off.
It's really sad how chris passed away. A broken ankle from trying to not hit a cameraman on a bump. Now I don't know how much of the story is true but the episode clearly showed tammy as being the thing that just slowly ruined chris's life. Which yeah she did horrible shit with cheating on him and getting into drugs but i also think chris never stood up because he wanted to fit in and tammy was more popular. This was the first time i seen of tammy in smokey mountain and my gosh she was a amazing heel. Trying to pose as "See women can suceed" while actively kicking every other woman down to stay ontop while also demeaning women she thinks isn't as perfect as her. My gosh i totally could picture what someone thought for the bodydonas with her trash talking others saying they're all unfit to be around her.
Chris's drug issues were the result of his friendship with Balls and Axl not Tammy.
When people point out how righteous Shawn Michaels is and retroactively correct his past, they need to remember this part of his life. Not just the Tammy cheating part, but the fact that Shawn, knowing Chris would do nothing about it, still was such a chicken shit that he still had Nash and Hall watch the door of the room they were banging in, just in case Chris or anyone else tried to call him on it. The more I think about how much of a blatantly slimey coward he was, the less respect I have for him.
@@officerperez Any red blooded male would've given it to Tammy back then. And if Shawn was such a chicken shit then why did Chris tolerate Tammy cheating even after they left the WWF. In fact why did Chris's own friends have Sunny days too behind Chris's back.
@wizzer wiser So, I guess the fact that everybody did it absolves Shawn then? And it doesn't make everyone less of a jerk because last I checked, Shawn was the only one having others do the fighting for him (and he had no shame in admitting he did that in a cocky manner because he knew he couldn't fight and would only do it if he had a chance of winning so basically being a bully). As if that wasn't bad enough, you were threatened with losing your job if you won the fight. And, yeah, Chris takes some level of responsibility for not leaving, but again, that doesn't make Shawn a retroactive saint.
@@officerperez > _"So, I guess the fact that everybody did it absolves Shawn then?"_
It kinda does. When you allow everyone to bang your girl, you're implicitly stating you're ok with it.
Chris, for all his virtues, was a cuckold.
If only she had went to school instead of joining WWF.. what an alternate universe that would be
If Candido was alive today he'd fit in perfectly in AEW with Jericho
This was an excellent episode of Dark Side of the Ring Jim Cornette is easily the MVP of these documentaries Chris Candido was awesome in ECW he was great in the Triple threat i gotta do research on his Smokey mountain wrestling run.
If Candido was still alive today and separated himself from Tammy, I have no doubt he would be either wrestling part time, being manager, backstage producer or even a coach teaching the next generation
And Tammy would've gotten into porn a lot sooner.
He didn't want to separate from Tammy though. He was well-aware half the locker room, including his friends, were blowing out Tammy's back and did nothing about it.
If knowing you're getting sloppy 33rds doesn't make you want to leave your girl, nothing will.
Candido Vs Kevin Owens is one dream match that I wish we could’ve seen
"What's America Online?!?"
Those who don't know, were spared. Us early internet adopters got to deal with the influx created by AOL.
AOL was what opened the internet to people with no clue technologically. Before that point, you kind of had to know what you were doing to get anything done on the internet. AOL changed that, creating a "walled garden" for non-technical people to play in before venturing out into the "wild" internet. In the process, it set the stage for the gigantic echo chamber of blogs, comment sections, and FB posts we all know and just love today.
For about a 4-5 year period, I got an AOL trial CD in the mail - some of which I actually did use as coasters.
I was a fan of Chris like most people that watch wrestling in the 90s, I meant when I first saw him I was a young fan and he and Tammy were heels in Smokey Mountain Wrestling, but looking back you can tell that for it being there first real gig they were both very good.
The one thing about the story though, and I really thought the Darkside of the ring would at least have the balls to tell all of the truth , we can’t pick and choose which part of the shoot interviews we want to believe but then if it makes one of the guys that we really like look bad like Brian, Pillman, or Davey boy Smith, then we just pretend that part didn’t happen. This story that she was just this innocent girl that never did anything wrong until she met Sean Michaels and then he and only he was the only one that knocking boots with her while she was with Chris is just a flat out lie.
I want to kill some people will take her information from certain shoot interviews and run with. It is gold, but things sit in the same interviews. They’ll just pretend didn’t happen. No one it was not just HBK , and it was Davey boy Smith, it was Raven, it was hack, and Brian Pillman in those are just the ones we know of that have come to light.
And I think Chris was a great talent, but at the same time dude you have to stand up for yourself. And this whole “well, what was he going to do stand up to Shawn Michaels? They would’ve given him a terrible gimmick, and made him do jobs to people like Berry Horowitz!” OK I don’t know if you guys were watching his WWF career but it’s not like he was a three time Intercontinental champion getting ready to win king of the ring when this started. He was already losing to jobbers and already had a bad gimmick, so it’s not like that world title shot that Vince McMahon told him about on the next ppv’s was going to be scratched off if he stood up to somebody.
It is a sad story, and I do feel bad for him to a certain extent but a lot of it was unfortunately his fault and we have to stop doing this in the wrestling communities where we pick and choose parts of the story we want to tell. If you’re going to hold one person accountable for a sin, then you need to hold everyone else accountable for the same sin.
I’d see Candido as a promoter if he was still alive today. Having his own little territory à la Smoky Mountain Wrestling 🙂
They don't exist anymore and Candido had zero business sense.
I loved ECW but always wondered wtf Paul was thinking having Tammy do that tell all interview on that episode. And I actually still have the VHS with the Kimona striptease (Extreme Warfare 1 or 2, I forget which one it's on exactly).
Thank god Tammy never got a scalpel in her hands. She's finally facing some significant prison time. She's not walking away from killing someone while driving drunk.
Tammy kept getting away with it because of her celebrity status, she thought she was untouchable that was the problem.
@@jerelminter 🤣 "celebrity status." That's adorable. I guarantee the cops and courts had no idea who she once was and could not have cared less when she undoubtedly told them again and again. She keeps walking away because it's a deeply flawed system, the rules of which are applied unevenly. She has no status, just blind luck and a double chin.
@@EdmundKempersDartboard
Well, she got 17 years in prison. She's gone for good.
it still saddens me that chris died the way he did. with his history, you'd expect him to go out like pillman or test or any number of guys who got lost in booze and pills. but then he turns around and was on the cusp of a career resurgence, only to be taken out by a common wrestling injury. and yeah, if he lived, no doubt he would've been a mega star and probably training younger talent in either AEW or NXT.
This episode cemented my view of Heyman. Heyman is a guy who I like but don't respect one bit. How do you continually screw people over like that? He's lucky he didn't do that to New Jack, dude wouldn't even be alive for Tommy Dreamer to try to shoot him at Mania 17.
People forget wrestling was not this corporate pre-00s. It was still a carny business and that's what went on in carny businesses. You screwed and/or got screwed over.
Tony Khan wouldn't have survived in the pre-90s with this "my employees are my friends and I'm their fan" attitude.
Stop this carny BS. It was still a multi million dollar business back then. No excuses for Herman being a lying shit stain
Not sure what gets me more.. hearing how Heyman pulled just the ultimate scumbag moves on, mostly loyal to him, people or said people just letting him away with it and then telling their stories of him fucking them over with smiles on their faces.
Let's be real if Chris was still alive, regardless of how great of a wrestler he was. Fans would have been chanting 'cuck' at him.
We as a fandom aren't exactly the most mature people. Because the stories of Sunny cheati g on Chris were already becoming more well known thanks to the internet.
If Chris candido were alive today chances are he be a big star because he pretty much laid down the foundation for smaller wrestlers to get over. Chances are he'll probably would have been a trainer for aew, probably wouldn't see him working for WWE because of the issues that him and Shawn Michaels had but we don't know, chances are Shawn Michaels would have probably apologize for the stuff he did to him and maybe would have forgive him. And let's be honest If Shawn Michaels didn't had the power and influence as a big-time star, chances are Chris candido would have popped him in the mouth multiple times.
He should've took his chances and rocked Shawn's shit anyway. Being a big star won't protect you from someone deciding they want to go into business for themselves in the middle of a match because they think you're an asshole
Sorry but no. Was Chris a good wrestler absolutely. But boy was he boring or had 0 charisma. There’s a reason he only got over in the indies. He tried in both WWE and WCW and nothing happened. No disrespect but he wouldn’t of been a big star.
Chris would have never got a push in wwe
@@nowtheworld138 i agree he would be a great nxt or aew trainer or agent but big star no
A big star? No way. I think people are being overly generous. I think he would have a job somewhere and certainly have a place in wrestling but I do not understand the "big star" label.
This episode was the first time I've seen Lance Storm break down. And I've been a fan of his for more than twenty years.
Heyman was vince part 2. Many stories. He owed so much money to talent. When you listen to him he admitted he got rich from the stock market but never put 1 cent of his personal momey tonsave his own company. God only knows if he actuwlly did. Ecw might have lasted longer
You'd be surprised how many women are out there exactly like Tammy Sytch. Tammy may have been the first because there's little difference between her and most modern women.
So wrestling onlyfans in the modern era
🚨Women hater alert🚨. No most women are NOT drugged out murders.🙄
Sad thing is she'll probably get probation and rehab.
good review
Finally u came up with a review
Her mugshot tells it all look at the evil on that face
Ahhhhh yeahhhhh! Dark Side reviews are back.
As much as this was hard to listen too especially the stuff about how oblivious it seemed Chris was to the affairs, the stuff with Heyman made me hate him. He had Tammy who i don't like at all and made me feel bad for her with that vlog and he sold it when it shouldn't have happened!
I first saw Chris in WCW during his 2000 run at the time and thought he looked stacked, going back over the matches he could work like no one. Shame about how preventable his passing was. RIP Chris
Those lawyers really protected that image😂
Best thing that would've happened is for Chris is that he never met Tammy.
He still would've developed an addiction due to his friendship with Balls.
Tammy was an unfaithful ho, but plenty if not most men deal with a harlot and come out fine. Chris' problems were beyond his cuckoldry.
Solomonster’s reviews on DSOTR is what I’ll use to keep up with the show since I refuse to watch the show after season 3
What happened after season 3 that u won't watch it anymore?
@@Dr_1212 Probably them knuckling under to WWE.
@@glenndallas7171 I didn't hear about that
@@Dr_1212 the fact that the show try to cancel John Cena. It should show the kind of fools that run the show and the people involve since many wrestlers don’t wanna be involved in the show anymore
@Anderson Blitz many wrestlers don't want to be involved with the show anymore because it airs out dirty laundry that they wish didn't get exposed. There's no altruism to it, a lot of wrestlers are complete scumbags. Of course they don't want to incriminate themselves on video.
I grew up before and during the infancy of the internet so while I do remember dial-up and waiting forever on shit to load on the Lego website, if you're broke and have an older mid-range pc like me, you can get the same experience waiting on NMKD's Stable Diffusion gui to make pics on low memory mode. Takes me right back to the '90s
I remember saying this from your mouth Solo,
_"I wanna see a whole season on Tammy Sytch"_
Like I said in previous videos,
_"I would like to think that if Tammy would have never met Chris/Tammy was r***d and killed then we would have a better timeline."_
Was ecstatic that you called it Wrestlemania X7 this time. 10/10.
Seeing corny getting emotional talking about candido death was heartbreaking plus dr Tom going off on how he hated the body donas. Sunny should of never gotten into the business and maybe she would of never became the trainreck she became. How could candido not know that Sunny was hooking up with hbk. Imagine if Chris candido was still alive, where would his career would be like today
Where is the actual episode of the dark side? It was taken down??
You wanna watch the show, watch it on VICE. This is a review.
Solomonster definitely took me back to the days of suffering through America Online. The struggle was real back then 😂
When you said Haymen was a bad carnie guy was 100% right. Thank you for that, what a scummy guy Haymen is. I used to fish with a guy who was a Indy wrestler in New Jersey and his in ring name was Equalizer. First name Paul, don't remember the last name. He was also like a carpenter and stuff like that. Chris was the godfather of The Equalizer's children. That's how close they were. Paul did not like Tammy. My main problem with Tammy is not the wrestling stuff or even Chris who I feel so bad for. It's the danger Tammy caused in real life with her substance abuse. One person said before she killed that guy was "What's it going to take? Tammy kills someone?" Well, as we know that happened. So sickening. Thank you again for your wonderful program
I was waiting for this review
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention his WCW run
Definitely a excellent episode but tragic aswell offcourse.
Its shame what happened to Chris, he deserved a lot better
One thing you noticed throughout this episode is that chris was a guy Too Loyal for his own good because when it came to Sunny, He was a straight Sucker. Not too mention Being more upset that he didn't finish a match rather than breaking his leg
Regardless though, he was a great guy & great wrestler. Wish he had a better ending
Tammy is just not a good person. She only cares about herself.
The struggle was real in 96 lol
I can see Candido going into the HOF just on his passion for Wrestling
Poor guy RIP
He deserved better
She might have been the biggest worst ho in wrestling
Very sad about chris remember when he died while managing the naturals in tna as tag champs rip chris
awesome
I don't think Tubby Heyman is climbing any trees today 🌴🌴
Shit didn’t even know there was another season
What’s happening to Tammy is karma and she deserves every bit of it
i actually got him confused with another chris (i think)
Maybe meeting Candido was the beginning to all the horrible things Tammy did
Life is just not fair to some people.
She really must have been using her mouth cause usually in PA 3rd dui in 10 years is a mandatory 1-5 years state correction facility knew enough people with resources and the best they could get was 18 months state prison. How she got them back to back like that baffles me. Florida however does not play. The min man for dui manslaughter I think is 10 years. She got 17 she’ll do 15 I think. 85% and no parole in Florida
I wonder if Tammy's current situation in life would have happened had Candido never passed.
Probably. She was already on that roller coaster ride
Aol was the first ever google lol
Chris Candido deserved better.
You can tell tammy hated her life after chris passed. Nobody there for her
Didn't stop her from cucking him every opportunity she got.
I'm glad the c*nt is locked up. Throw away the key, I say.
I doubt it was only because of chris
She depended on him getting her out of all the jams she put herself in. Nobody else did that for her which is why shes in these jams.
So true 😢
It's hard to take the commentary seriously when the info being reviewed is just used for snarky fodder to seem cool.
Tennessee actually voted for Clinton twice
I guess it was a red area there he was talking about
Yeah but thats the average woman of today. Sociopaths. @19:20
Who hurt you bro?
@@JCOdrjones spoken like a women. exposed.
Candido was a goddamn charisma free jobber
If only we had Chris around instead of Tammy...
Chris would've killed himself if Tammy died before him.
I watch all the Dark Side episodes but I especially look forward to these recaps Jason. Thank you for doing these.