Dark Side of the Ring: Pro Wrestling and Americana

Young Mike Von Erich, though skinnier and less skilled, was rushed into his place on the cards of World Class Championship Wrestling but a violent fit of toxic shock after an operation, added to the weight of media and familial pressure, crushed him and he killed himself at the age of 23. The Von Erich tragedies occupy one episode of the splendid Viceland series Dark Side of the Ring, but other episodes detail other tragedies close to them. It was in the nine-year span between David and Kerry Von Erich’s deaths that wrestling was at its biggest.

Source: spectator.us