Evan Husney Discusses The Upcoming Dark Side Of The Ring Episode About Marty Jannetty

Marty Jannetty is chasing the spotlight.

During a recent interview with The Ringer Wrestling Show, Evan Husney, one of the co-creators of Dark Side of the Ring, spoke about the upcoming Marty Jannetty episode. According to Husney, they spent four days with the former WWE Superstar, saying that viewers will have to decide what parts of the story are true and which are fabricated.

“Marty Jannetty, it’s definitely an episode you’re not going to want to miss. It was one that when we were working on Season 3, and that’s when the news broke on this crazy story that Marty had put out there that he had killed somebody at some point in time. It was just like, ‘What is going on?’ … People just went crazy with that, so for us, it was kind of this thing like, ‘Oh my God, what would a Marty Jannetty episode look like?’ Then we realized it can’t just be this thing where we go and interview him for an hour or two, it just wouldn’t be right. So we actually wound up spending four days with Marty and really immersing ourselves in Marty JannettyLand and trying to get his truth. I think the episode is largely about, obviously him being kind of the underdog out of the two in The Rockers, his rise with Shawn, but I think a lot of people are also going to find that this is largely also about his time after the spotlight. How he’s chasing that notoriety. he’s chasing that by any means, whether it be provocative, fabricating things, creating his own universe. So I think we’ve landed on the perfect title for that episode. It’s called ‘The World According to Marty Jannetty.’ So everybody’s going to want to tune in for that. I think everyone’s going to have to decide for themselves what’s truth and what’s fiction in that story,” Husney said. 

This past week, the episode of “Dark Side of The Ring” which focused on Magnum TA, drew 155,000 viewers. Click here to learn more.

Bruce Prichard recently joked that the world would stop spinning had Marty Jannetty turned on Shawn Michaels. Click here to read more.

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