Dave Hanratty
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John Cena's retirement match, by the way.
Perfect finish.
That's all I'll say on that.
As for this, this is about the Von Erich family.
And if anyone doesn't know about the Von Erich family, they were this kind of dynasty of wrestlers in the 70s.
And it was a thing of, there was incredible talent that ran through their veins.
Their father, Fritz, was a notorious bastard, to be honest with you.
But he pushed them militaristically, like insane.
He was a wrestler himself and he was very much like, my kids are going to be the next generation, we're going to be...
the biggest thing in wrestling.
We're going to make tons of money.
These are going to be world champions, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, as we all know, wrestling is choreographed and scripted, so it's all about the backstage politics.
It's all about those kind of machinations.
But real-life tragedy would strike this family, and I won't get into it completely for anyone who hasn't seen the film or heard the story, but what would happen to...
Each member, essentially, of the Von Eriks was so awful and literally unbelievable that when this film was being made, its director left out one of the brothers entirely because they figured that the audience wouldn't accept that another tragedy could happen.
And these are true tragedies?
True.
Yeah, completely true story.
And obviously this is a dramatization, so some stuff has played up, but generally speaking, it's pretty faithful to what happened.