Pro Wrestling Discussion

[mstipendiary]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf

Episode titles (not necessarily in order of appearance):
The Scream Queen: Daffney: “With her piercing scream, Shannon Spruill becomes a cult star as Daffney in the squared circle; outside the ring, Daffney fights a much more punishing battle with bipolar disorder.”

Shit this has the makings of being the most depressing one ever. Famously Daff got fucked up by moves done wrong in TNA, ending her career, then she spiralled into the mental health crisis that ended with her untimely death, part of her breakdown she live streamed on Twitch (or one of those sites).

I guess only the circumstances around the death of Japan's Hana Kimura, who died a few years earlier, was equally as awful.

[Lonewolf]

Originally Posted by mstipendiary

Shit this has the makings of being the most depressing one ever. Famously Daff got fucked up by moves done wrong in TNA, ending her career, then she spiralled into the mental health crisis that ended with her untimely death, part of her breakdown she live streamed on Twitch (or one of those sites).

I guess only the circumstances around the death of Japan's Hana Kimura, who died a few years earlier, was equally as awful.

I'm waiting... imploring... Vice to do an episode on Cornette vs. Russo. If they do that one, I can die a happy man.

Thing is, five seasons in, how much is left to cover? And they have to balance that with ratings... I can't imagine an episode on Chris Colt drew big ratings, especially since even the "average" wrestling fan knew nothing of him.

[Rick Sanchez]

Daffney was one of the first women to really make me take an interest in women's wrestling (the other was Lita). She was one of the only bright spots of WCW in the final couple of years. I followed her career from WCW to TNA. Watching her was a delight, whether in the ring or in non-wrestling segments.

I was one of the many the witnessed her final livestream and tried to contact her through her Instagram. When the news broke the next day, I was distraught for weeks. Every now and then, her revealing her gun toward the end of the stream still gives me PTSD.

[mstipendiary]

^ Understandable. She was pretty much off my radar though I'd been a fan / booster through the years, she was unique and like many of her era, probably would have been a much bigger star if she'd come around just a few years later when women were valued more, partucularly post the 2014 NXT Paige-Charlotte-Becky-Bayley era.

Her epitaph "my brain goes to Boston" is utterly chilling in its bluntness and I've never really looked at the footage - I don't know if showing much of this footage in Dark Side will be in good taste, it IS kind of key to the story though. I don't think I will ever forget just reading what people wrote about what went down that sad evening.