Evan Husney: We Wanted To Cover Chris Candido And Sunny Since Season Two Of Dark Side

Season four of “Dark Side of the Ring” will premiere on Tuesday, May 30 with an episode focused on Chris Candido & Tammy Sytch (Sunny). 

Candido and Sytch were high school sweethearts and entered the WWE together in 1995. Their relationship had ups and downs, and Candido tragically passed at the age of 33 in 2005. Meanwhile, Sytch has had a laundry list of legal issues. 

Speaking on Sports Guys Talk Wrestling, “Dark Side of the Ring” co-creator Evan Husney revealed that they wanted to do an episode on Sytch and Candido long before season four. 

“This story is one that we’ve been trying to make happen for a very long time. Going back to season two, we really want to do this story because it is a harrowing, dark story about a very young couple who got into this business. Chris was kind of born to be a wrestler in many ways, he was very passionate about wanting to be a wrestler at a very young age and was kind of destined to become a wrestler. When he met Tammy, kind of by chance, they met and were very close and she kind of got swept into the wrestling business, as you’ll see, it wasn’t her intention. She was a pre-med student at the time. It’s kind of this portrait of a very innocent, young, impressionable couple that gets swallowed up by the business. How they come out on the other end is completely far removed from where they started and that innocence. That’s the most shocking thing about it; how they started and where they wound up with Chris passing at a very young age and Tammy now facing potential criminal charges that are going to have her, potentially, in jail for a very long time with the manslaughter situation. That’s kind of the most intense part of it, is that. One we’ve tried to get off the ground many times and now we’ve finally pulled the trigger for season four,” he said.

Sytch is currently awaiting trial for regarding her involvement in a fatal car crash in Volusia County, Florida, that killed a 75-year-old man on March 25, 2022. 

While making the media rounds, Husney said that VICE Media filing for bankruptcy won’t change anything for Dark Side. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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