#Dark Side Of The Ring

[wrestlingarsenal]

Saturday Scissor Series

The recent Dark Side of the Ring episode featuring Chris Colt (Season 5, Episode 6) mentions his participation in gay porn after his wrestling career ended. I got the sense he must've made numerous adult videos, but I found a website explaining that he really only appeared in two such films, both for the same company (Palm Drive Video) and both having a wrestling theme:

Uncut: Pro-Wrestler Chris Colt 

Sex Aggression: Jack Husky's First Night at Chris Colt's Wrestling Academy

Today's Scissor clip is from the second video, which I was able to find on a porn website. In the clip, we see Colt, shirtless in jeans, giving his trainee a prolonged Headscissor and torturing his nipples.

So it seems Chris Colt was not only a pioneer and innovator in mainstream wrestling, but also as an early producer of Wrestle-Porn on video. His Sex Aggression film came out in 1990 at a time when home VCRs were still fairly new and very little explicitly gay wrestling content was being filmed. (I found an early BG video called "Live at Phantom 1" filmed in 1988, which had to be one of the first wrestle-porn videos, but that was a public show so I doubt it involved actual sex as depicted in Colt's avant garde films.)

According to the article describing his porn work, Colt was aware that many guys get off on wrestling and would even pay for private sessions with pro wrestlers, so there was clearly a market for wrestleporn for at-home viewing. Colt also wanted his videos to expose the hypocrisy of the homophobic, closeted fanbase by outting pro wrestling -- by pointing out that it's, of course, super gay. Colt knew that lots of wrestling fans will pay for matches if you make them just a bit more homoerotic than the televised version.

[itsexclusive]

The inevitable dark side of the ring episode about Vince Mcmahon will be God tier. They wouldn't be able to cover his shenanigans in an episode or two, they would need to dedicate an entire season to his fuckery.

[theonlyblackcanary]

Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler had ten seconds to prepare to announce Owen Hart's death. Ten. Seconds.

Kevin Dunn, you can fucking rot.

Rip Owen, you deserved better 💔

[demoralizedreprobate]

Marty banned from multiple countries Jannetty. thank you dark side of the ring for blessing me with this clip of MJ driving into a hotel fountain.

[wrestlinghistorywithkay]

Kerry Von Erich posing with tribute robe in memory of his brother , David and the NWA World Championship , 1984

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[strollnrussell]

rewatching the dark side of the ring episode with nick gage and seeing all the czw matches i’ve watched and horrified me as a child but made me love moxley

[littletroubledgrrrl]

Since Sam is the son of the infamous Grizzly Smith, watching Grizzly's "Dark Side of the Ring" episode there was a great picture of Sam Houston in that episode I would love to post.

While that episode is on Dailymotion, when I try to upload that episode on gifrun to make a gif of Sam's photo, the video doesn't show up and my computer freezes!

And while that "Dark Side of the Ring" episode is on Internet Archive and gifrun does take videos from that website, Internet Archive isn't working right now!

And Grizzly's "Dark Side of the Ring" episode is not on Youtube.

[0dahv11ng]

lil' blog intro!!!

hi!! my name is marcy, but i also go by mara :) i’m a long time tumblr lurker and fanfic writer but i finally wanted to start posting and putting my stuff out there! 

i’ve been watching wrestling since i can remember, my dad basically raised me on it. i mostly watch aew nowadays but wwe will always have a special place in my heart. i really want some new moots to talk abt my fav thing in the world with!! here’s some of my fav things to talk about:

wwe - aj lee, sami zayn, rhea ripley, seth rollins, cody rhodes

aew - the elite, toni storm, bcc, hook, kris statlander, swerve strickland, riho

reading! (the secret history clears every time)

other tv - the bear, dark side of the ring, sex education, the witcher, band of brothers

video games - skyrim (my username), beyond two souls, minecraft, god of war

music - yeah yeah yeahs (my pfp), boygenius, cocteau twins, coldplay, sade, glass animals, chet baker (literally everything)

but yea! i've been going thru all my old works i've written over the years to see if there’s anything i can salvage or repurpose. this is supposed to be a mutlifandom blog but majority of the time all i talk about is wrestling. if u read this far yay! lets be friends. (the bcc/elite prohibition fic is coming i promise)

[dalekofchaos]

Dark Side of the Ring season 6 ideas

Season 5 is over, so here are my ideas for season 6 of Dark side of the Ring

The Ringboy Scandal

Bill DeMott

The Knight Family

Wrestlers Court

Ashley Massaro

Daffney

Rikidozan

Buck Zumhofe

Hardbody Harrison

Heroes Of Wrestling

Adrian Street

The Kliq

Perry Saturn

IWA Mid-South

Rick Rude

Mr Perfect

Juana Barraza

Raven

Art Barr

Larry Sweeney

Ludvig Borga

Jerry and Brian Christopher Lawler

Buddy Landel

Test Martin

Tom Zenk

Demolition

The Shiek

Muhammad Hassan

[wrestlingarsenal]

So I've been diving deep into the wrestling career of the Heel known as Chris Colt -- searching for his rare 1970s matches on YouTube, and falling in love with him as one does with gay wrestling icons.

My obsession was kicked off by a recent episode of "Dark Side of the Ring" which aired on Vice earlier this year. I recently streamed it and couldn't help noticing Colt's blatant homoerotic energy, which was perhaps not clocked by most str8 fans at the time.

As with most wrestlers featured on "Dark Side," Colt's life story is filled with trauma, addiction, violence, and a sad ending. However, he was also really sexy, and gay, and clearly loved everything about pro wrestling. All of today's images are from the Dark Side of the Ring, Season 5, Episode #6, "Chris Colt: Welcome to My Nightmare."

His persona and his wrestling performances really captured my fancy. Like other 70's Heels using the Gay Master persona, he mixed queer hip-swiveling with aggressive brutality and eye make-up. He was a violent, sissified dick-tease, just how I like them. He liked to bite and scratch his opponents like a sassy bitch. His costumes were colorful and always super queer, and oftentimes either he, or his opponent, or both would end up bloody-faced.

His many innovations added entertainment value to pro wrestling which we still enjoy today. He was the first to adopt flamboyant Rock n Roll fashion, and first to use Entrance Music (in his case, Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare.") He was one of the first to jump off the top rope onto a prone opponent. And most of all, he knew the audience wanted MORE than just the same old holds and finishers -- they wanted to see sex in the ring (as much as the law would allow.)

He was also gay IRL and didn't seem to care who figured that out (which was rare, and rather trail-breaking, during the homophobic 1970s.) And I'm sure he got bullied and blacklisted and possibly beaten because he happened to like men.

Check out the documentary and let me know if you feel the urge, like I did, to hug Chris Colt and tell him it'll be OK. You can hopefully find it if you have the Vice Channel on your cablevision. I know it's also available for streaming from Amazon Prime Video for like $2.99:

[84reedsy]

In your opinion what is the saddest episode of Darkside of the Ring?

Oh, anon, by FAR the Von Erichs.

The sheer tragedy within one family is nearly incomprehensible. Thinking of what Kevin and his parents have experienced just feels like a nightmare. I felt that "helpless" feeling the most during that episode. I haven't seen all of them, but none are really too light-hearted.

I have a few queued up to watch soon when I recover from Scott's legends doc 😂😭

[mysharona1987]

[flytohurt]

i finally watched the iron claw since it’s on max now

& wow, that was a beautifully shot movie. the cinematography & direction was fantastic. i do wish they had explained a bit more though. if you don’t actually know the story of the Von Erichs there’s a lot of context missing.

i also don’t think it was fair to the family to not include Chris. the director said the film “couldn’t withstand another tragedy” but like, you’re making a film about the Von Erich family & that was in fact another tragedy they had to experience…? there were six sons, not five. you can’t just rewrite their history while claiming it’s the true story.

i’d highly recommend their dark side of the ring episode if you’re interested in the family, the whole history, & Kevin’s life now. it’s also just a really good show for wrestling fans, lots of untold details of controversies & tragedies over the years. as a warning, Cornette is in nearly every episode & his feud with Russo is still present & just as insufferable as ever but that only comes up in two episodes if i remember correctly.

[austinramsaygames]

Me, remembering Dark Side Of The Ring exists: I wonder if there are any new episodes since I last checked.

Me, immediately remembering Vice went bankrupt like 2 months ago: ... probably not.

[wrestlinghistorywithkay]

Remembering Chris Von Erich on his birthday today.