I was already a wrestling fan for about twenty years before Randy 'Macho Man' Savage came on the scene in the World Wrestling Federation. He was one of the first, if not THE first wrestler who came in as a heel and wound up being a crowd favorite. Ric Flair managed to pull off the same bit but it took a while after he left the old National Wrestling Alliance promotion. What helped Savage was his real life association with Miss Elizabeth Ann Hulette, married in real life for seven years before their in-ring characters tied the knot at 1991's Summer Slam event. This first episode of "Dark Side of the Ring" traces the Macho Man/Miss Elizabeth relationship and it's eventual breakup in a blended reality of life imitating art, or some would say vice versa. Participants in the program include Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, Scott Hall, Jimmy Hart, Jake the Snake Roberts, Eric Bischoff and ex-wife of Hulk Hogan, Linda Bollea, each of them offering their insights into the relationship from their unique perspectives. The show relies a lot on re-enactments of events in the lives of the ring personalities, and it's unfortunate that better renditions of actual match footage couldn't be found to use as part of the story. But the story itself is insightful and fascinating if you followed wrestling in the late Eighties and early Nineties. What you weren't aware of behind the scenes is examined in some detail here, for example, one wouldn't have known about Miss Elizabeth's breakup with Savage and eventual association with Lex Luger back in the day unless you were a real hard core follower. What's hard to imagine is that both personalities are now gone, Savage dying in a car crash in 2011 and Miss Elizabeth succumbing to acute toxicity brought on by a mix of painkillers and vodka in 2003. Her death was ruled an accident; she had been living with Lex Luger at the time. Even though I don't follow the 'sport' any more, I still find it tragic that both Savage and Elizabeth couldn't have lived out a full and productive life outside the ring.