A Wild Season Finale With Marty Jannetty (Dark Side of the Ring Season 4 Review) 

Well, he's off his Rockers.

This episode was the gift that kept giving. Marty's GAT, Facebook, Mr. and Mrs. Beefcake, dating his sex therapy counselor, making a man "disappear." It just kept going and going. If Dark Side doesn't get renewed, what a way to go out on.

Marty Jannetty worked like Ricky Steamboat but partied like Rick James. He had the fire and desire to succeed, but was a superfreak. The wrestling business is coldblooded.

Bobby Heenan “ I knew he was going to do that” 😂😂😂😂😂

That run in 05 he could have totally turned everything around.😊

This was a crazy season finale of dark side of the Ring really looking forward to next season and seeing what topics will be discussed.

Jannetty: "God tortured me" *Meanwhile Vince rehired this dude like 10 times*

Season 5 list for DSOR 1.Umaga 2.Test 3.Hero’s of wrestling 99 4.The ring boy scandal 5. Viscera 6.Jerry Lawler’s sodomy & Rape case back in the 90’s 7.Rick Rude 8. British bulldog 9. WBF 10. psycho Sid ( Sid vicious)

I respect how Al has love for Jannetty, but also acknowledges that the guy got in his own way.

For season 5, I’m shocked they haven’t touched on the Ring Boy scandal yet. Another one id like to see as a New Jack/Nick Gage type episode would be on Teddy Hart. That could be very interesting. Especially if they get Bret

First off, why did it take this long for Vice Dark Side of the Ring to finally have Al Snow as one of the interviewees. The guy is so knowledgeable about wrestling secondly, i loved what Al said at the end of the documentary. We all know that "Marty Jannetty" is basically a punchline now for the tag team guy who never became as big of a star as their former partner. But...how many people in wrestling would kill to have that level of success at a tag team level that Marty had for one time?

I do agree, he probably wouldn't have been a big star like Shawn Michaels but he would have had a decent career if he gotten himself together.

I like The Solomonster's somewhat brief impersonation of Randy "The Macho Man" Savage around 20:27-20:31. I can only imagine being in a situation where Randy "The Macho Man" Savage shows up & saves my back-side & having him ask "What all's goin' on, over here, man?...".

I remember on Cornette's podcast Brian said he met Marty at some event and they stood there chatting for a while before going their separate ways, fast forward a few weeks and upon running into one another at another event they started talking with Brian mentioning about their last meeting and he said Marty blanked him and denied ever being in that city/town

Future episodes I'd like to see: 1. Masawa 2. Hana Kimura 3. XWF 4. Ring Boy Scandal 5. Muhammad Hassan 6. Umaga 7. Roddy Piper 8. KroniK 9. Jesse Sorensen 10. Mike Awesome 12. Matt Cappotelli 13. Droz 14. Crash Holly 15. Test 16. Bobby Duncum Jr. 17. Wrestling Society X 18. Teddy Hart 19. Eddie Gilbert 20. Heroes of Wrestling 21. Yokozuna 22. Joey Ryan (or speaking out movement since it was so big) 23. Alberto Del Rio 24. Haku (although I'd be a little scared to produce it) 25. Vince Russo

Deep down he bevlieved he was as good as HBK or even better. I'm not gonna argue with that. You can blame Shawn for a lot of things but cannot blame him for Marty's run ins with the law. That is what ultimately runined his career more than anything else.

Solomonster’s little Macho Man impression 😂

Marty was a definate wildman out of the ring. As far as future topics for DSOR,Heres mine; Buzz Sawyer Heroes of Wrestling 99 Mike Awesome DT Porter(Former WWE Development Wrestler who murdered his girlfriend) Hardbody Harrison Chris Adams Any DSOR they can cover would be interesting cause i enjoy the show despite a lot of bad things being discussed

Poor Marty was never the same after being thrown through the barbershop window. The head injury from that followed him throughout his life.

Rise and fall of Lex Luger would be a great episode for dark side of the ring

It's's hard to take the claim that Marty's lack of push was due to Shawn playing politics seriously when you consider all the chances Vince him. Vince could have washed his hands of Marty for good after the first firing but kept giving him chances cause he clearly recognized Marty's talent. Had Marty kept his nose clean i don't think he would've ever been a main eventer besides his matches with Shawn but he could've been upper mid card for a long time.

I heard a similar story regarding Marty’s firing in ‘93. What I heard was Marty was sleeping in the locker room, Shawn saw him and went running to Vince saying Marty was passed out b/c he was high. Like the tale told in this review Hennig went to Vince months later and said what really happened. When Beefer’s wife said she’d flash Marty all I could think was “Hasn’t he suffered enough?” Topics for the next season: Curt Hennig Terry Gordy Superstar Billy Graham Sherri Martel Art Barr Eddie Gilbert Dustin Rhodes

I don't know if this would happen, but a dark side episode on the insane clown posse or JCW would be interesting

Couldn’t they have just looked at the employee record of the bowling alley to find the guys name to then go look for him if he was supposedly “missing“

‘If Eric had brown on his nose talking about Hogan…’ that was it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

12:10 I thought Solomonster was gonna talk to us about "Gyatt" instead of "Gat" for a second

I spit my drink out of laughing when i saw Marty drive in that hotel lobby with a motorcycle. What a jerk this guy was. Poor bastard got himself in a lot of bs. But i think Solomonster is right; the only one he can really blame is himself.

Honestly love the Dark Side Of The Ring episodes and boy is this a wild one. Would like a season 5 obviously. Would like to see episodes on Daphne and Ashley Massaro.

He probably did kill that man, and I honestly support him if he did. Zero sympathy whatsoever for child predators

Patterson just wanted two young boys around is why he wanted The Rockers in the WWF.

Been waiting for solomonster's review of this episode. I was a huge fan of The Rockers back in the day. It is frustrating to hear that Marty could never say no to drugs etc and if he had just packed it in early 90s we could have got that great WM 8 match. I didnt care at all for the el matador match and didnt care for the tatanka match shawn had at 8 and 9. Thought they were both average at best. RR 93 match they had I enjoyed and liked it. My fav thing about that ppv was the shawn vs marty match. And shawn throwing marty out of a window must have been the reason they did that barber shop stunt where the rockers broke up. But its frustrating Marty never sorted his life out and focused on work. Shawn was more of the driven one that was obvious but I beleive Marty could have been a world champion if he had sorted himself out early on and was smart about things and made the right decisions.

WM8 could've been the greatest WM following X-Seven had it been HBK/Jannetty, Savage/Jake, Flair/Hogan, etc. Only match they got right was Bret/Piper

I was bummed there was no dramatization of the beat down from Scott Hall

Party Marty!!

Tbh, and i dunno if they would do it, but a Dark Side on the original cast of Tough Enough would be interesting on how the chaos it was behind the scenes and how most, if not all, have pan out once the cameras stopped rolling.

I thought the thumbnail was him holding a magic wand

I remember in 2009 or 10 he return on a RAW when Miz and Morrison were feuding on

I love Marty Jannetty. Always have always will ❤❤❤

4:27 - “Lovely” Said in the most Solomonster delivery ever.

One thing I love to see as a Dark side of the Ring would be Ian Rotten and Mid South Wrestling. They could make a whole season on him.

Marty Jannetty is the guy that never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. He was also his own worst enemy.

This guy is nuts and the stories he told was wow 🤩

Here’s some subjects I would love to see for season 5. The biggest of my ideas is: the Knoxville 5 and Plan B. I wanna know why the hell they thought exposing the business would help them against the Fullers in the territory. Like your beef was with the Fullers not the entire business. And how were they all able to still be in the business after that even though they never released all the tapes (only one can be seen). Bob Roop never reached the level to get to the national scene. Ron Wright was pretty much retired. Boris Malenko was on his way out. Only Bob Orton Jr & Ronnie Garvin reached that big level. Others include: MTV’ Tough Enough (someone else here brought up season 1 but I wanna know the entire 3 season run. Especially that girl in season 3. Or and Kelsey Grammer blocking them from living in the house next to his for season 3 and the city council member that had the nerve to ask if an IQ test was gonna be taken during the show), Daffney, Rob Feinstein being busted that caused the end of the ROH-TNA relationship the first time, Kurt Angle (come on. Perc Angle. You know you wanna hear more about it), The Sandman, Heroes of Wrestling, the American Wrestling Federation, Jerry Lawler’s case in 1993, Brutus Beefcake, Davey Boy Smith, the original run of WOW: Women of Wrestling, Jim Neidhart, and after hearing about Bash at the Beach 2000 there has to be one of the final days of WCW (mainly from when Russo first showed up in October 1999 to the final day). Oh yeah and the mass exodus of talent from All Japan to form NOAH

This was beautiful, in the worst possible way. I love this episode.

I look forward to your reviews as much as the episodes

I think we all have that friend/coworker that just loves to make up bullshit stories, but Marty kicks that shit up to 11!

I feel like his mindset is classic columbus georgia. my dad and uncles have the same mindset as him and they all grew up around each other. I mean no disrespect to any of them, but it is what it is.

I was a kid when Marty dove through the barber shop window to escape. I remember rooting for Marty Jannetty, because he was the good guy, and being mad at Shawn. I thought Shawn's career would go nowhere without Marty because Marty was clearly more talented. It wasn't until '94 that I became a HUGE Shawn Michaels fan. Shawn was accompanying Diesel to the ring for all his matches and was constantly interfering and I just became obsessed with him. He had personality and you could see it in everything, from the way he dressed to the way he cheated. I just loved him. He was great on the mic and great in the ring. He also looked good😍 Mid 90's Shawn was the hottest thing on legs.

I witnessed the mach with him and Kurt Angle live. Great match

13:12 - "They bathed together.... they even shared the same piece of mint-flavored dental floss. Oh, yeah. The world was their burrito." Sorry about that, at that part, I was just reminded of the Weird Al song Albequerque, and thought it was time for a tribute. Moving right along.

34:43 🤣🤣🤣you over sold the amount of brain cells he has lol

Such an odd choice to end the season with.

My buddy tossed Marty’s salad in 93. Good guy.

For hired and fired Jim Niedhart should be on that list too Hell they could do an episode on him

For season 5, they need to make a episode on Mexican wrestler The Silent Lady, real name Juana Barraza aka La Mataviejitas (The Little Old Lady Killer), who was sentenced to 759 years in prison for murdering 16 (that were confirmed) elderly women.

Ian Rotten would be a good subject for an episode

I wonder if theyll do a DSOTR on ECW & its end?

He was my favorite midcard guy growing up in 90$

Good coverage! Hilarious!

“See Macho Man saves the day” 😂😂😂

if they make a season 5 here are some topics i like to see Art Barr Rick Rude Speaking Out Movement Davey Boy Smith Rock N Roll Buck Zumhofe please leave suggestions below

Marty in da house!

Unless they have already covered this topic, but what about Bill Demotts tenure as trainer ? That literally is the dark side of the ring as what happened was pretty much in a ring...

This really should be the series finale. What other stories of note are left to cover? I think it's a wrap.

His match with the Miz in 2009 was not bad either. 😊 I would love if they went back to the start of pro wrestling and work their way forward. 😊

I was at that raw where the rockers reunited, it was a great feeling seeing those two.

I truly believe that Marty could have been a successful wrestler with a long WWE career if he wouldn't have gotten in trouble with the law and had the mania match against Shawn. Look I doubt he was main title position but easily staying in the company and having a ic title run and always being there that you can have him competing for the ic title. Basically similar spot Christian cage had after breaking up with edge.

Surprised they haven't done the fiasco of the Heroes of Wrestling PPV easy for.Season 5. Sean O'Haire would be a topic too. Test and the others that were mentioned by Solomonster.

When they took Marty to the bowling alley, I thought he said after he killed the man, he burned the body. Not tossing him in the river.

Man. . . Makes me wonder what could have been in store for him after that Rockers reunion if he hadn't gotten arrested.

What's with Brutus's wife having to be on camera with him while he was being interviewed? That's so odd. And I got a pathetic, co-dependent vibe from the woman Karen. Marty was a true albatross around Shawn's neck, it had to be said.

I hated listening to Marty's friends bad-mouth Shawn. I know Shawn wasn't perfect, but he recognized that he had made mistakes in the past and tried to rectify them when he turned his life around. That's why he reached out to Marty Jannetty and invited him to be baptized. Shawn was also responsible for getting Marty another chance with WWE. Marty admitted that in an interview, that Shawn likely talked to Vince to get Marty another chance, but then Marty ended up getting arrested again. Shawn is now a married man with kids, he doesn't owe Marty anything. He tried to get Marty another shot and Marty blew it. It's very clear how bias Marty's friends were. At least Shawn did the hard work of recognizing he had a drug and attitude problem, then working to correct it.

Party Jannetty!

I loved Bad Company/Pat Tanaka...but ...wrestlers....have a tendency of telling lies,stretching the truth and doing stupid things while drunk.

I'd like to see The American Dream Dusty Rhodes in Season Five. I'd like to see World Class as a whole in Season Five. I'd like to see The Road Warriors as a whole in Season Five especially since they are both gone. These programs cement what Dutch Mantel said recently. I'm paraphrasing of course but here goes. You don't want to know your hero's because you'll be disappointed. Look at the Rockers. You'd be disappointed. Sunny. You'd be disappointed. The Von Erick's. You'd be disappointed. The list goes on and on. I'd love to see you do a program on how McMahon treated people. The scores of people who were treated badly by Vince. Chyna would be one. I know substance abuse is a key factor but it seems HHH used Chyna and Vince ran with it. I don't know. Just a suggestion. Thank you for your programs. You do a terrific job.

I think episode on Juana Barraza would be interesting

If a season 5 of DarkSide of the ring is in the works... do you think an episode with Alex Riley can be one?

Do you think heroes of wrestling would make a good season 5 episode?

good review

I think the story of Jim Barnett would make for a good episode of DSOTR.

He reminds me of a friend his is on his 40s I still think he’s in high school and he blames everyone

From a storytelling aspect, Walmarty Jannetty is a Ho Kogan lite.

I love how wrestlers will lineup to throw a guy under a bus. I’m not saying HBK is an Angel by any means but I don’t think in 1991 he was walking into Vince McMahon’s office and pushing guys like Hulk hogan and Ric Flair and Randy savage and the ultimate warrior to the side so he could have meetings with them. I know he’s done some shitty things, but in real life everyone’s done good and bad. I think the wrestling community both people in the profession and fans have this idea of taking people they don’t like personally, and just telling the bad stuff without telling any of the good stuff. Even wrestlers I really like do this. Marty was a hell of a talent, but the guy was a train wreck and that’s not the fault of Shawn Michaels. Hell Shawn, Michaels even tried to get him a job back after he came out of retirement in the 2000s and Marty is the only one that fucked that up to.

To throw my hat in what I think could also be covered in future Dark Side of the Ring episodes: Pat Patterson and the Ring Boy Scandal - The infamous "Cream Team" lead by Pat Patterson where would ring boys were being solicited for s*x, Roddy Piper being a notable victim even going as far as to talk about his own encounter with Patterson with Kayfabe Commentaries. Muhammad Hassan - For the whole angle that aired the same day as the London Terrorist Bombings, and just how badly Hassan was treated. So badly in fact that after he was released, he never wrestled again but one time for one night only. Ludvig Borga - Looking at both his career in WWE and Finnish politics, Borga was a controversial figure to say the least.

Season 5 dark side of the ring Mike awesome Daffney Ashley massaro Heroes of wrestling Jim Herd’s wcw Public enemy( Johnny grunge and rocco rock) Perry Saturn Etc.

It's sad that we laugh at this man's antics and his life is like the broken barber shop glass he was put through by the one person who ended up trying to save him in Shawn being the biggest irony of all.

DDP needs too help Jannety

Marty Jannetty is basicallly Shawn Michaels if Shawn never got himself cleaned up and became a born-again Christian.

I would like to see a sable dark side of ring

His nickname was party Marty

With Wrestlers making up stories I mean keeping Kayfabe especially Back Then involves a lot of Lying 🥴🤷🏿‍♂️

One story I would like to see cover is the death of luchador Abismo Negro. His death just is shrouded by mystery

I'd like to see one on Curt Henning

There one idea for season 5 Plan B Tape.

4:27 okay i was wondering if i was going insane when she said she just got in middle school and i was like “so he met you when you were a minor?”

I want to see CM Punk vs Elite at Brawl Out, do it DSOTR, if they got the guts

Crazy episode

Unless your name is Shane Douglas or Nailz, your chances of getting a gig at WWE are better than average

For season 5: I want to see the death of ECW I want to see what happened to Chyna And Mike awesome, Scott Hall, Reid Flair, Rick rude, and Bobby Duncum Jr. Curt Hennig and Edward Smith Fatu(umaga) Brian Christopheris is good to

Marty the smarty