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Dark Side of the Ring: Unheard

Jim Cornette & Vince Russo

Season 1, Ep. 8

Throughout Dark Side of the Ring, perhaps no war of words has been as incendiary or as entertaining as that between Jim Cornette and Vince Russo, and in this episode, we plumbed multiple seasons worth of interviews to understand the roots of their conflict.

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