‘The Other Side of the Ring’: A different take on the wrestling documentary
Published Thursday, May. 13, 2021, 11:31 am
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The wrestling documentaries popular these days all end the same way: in tragedy.
Jeremy Norrie, director of “The Other Side of the Ring,” goes the other direction, following the booker’s inclination to send the fans home happy.
“I’ve watched a lot of the other documentaries, and some of them are really, really good, but there is a little dramatization, and they focus on some of the real horror stories,” Norrie said. “I kind of liked the idea that this doesn’t have to necessarily be a bad thing, that everybody’s story is, you know, a personal journey, and there’s emotional tie-ins for everybody. Some are like, more harsh than others, right? But it doesn’t have to make wrestling into this horrible thing. It can be a great thing.”