Dark Side of the Ring Producer Open to Releasing Unused Interview Footage

As Dark Side of the Ring gears up for its Season 7 premiere — a two-hour episode centered on TNA — series producer Evan Husney is entertaining the idea of making unreleased interview material available to fans.

Over the course of the show’s run, Husney and his team have sat down with a wide range of wrestlers and wrestling personalities to gather material for each episode. By the nature of documentary filmmaking, only a fraction of those conversations ever makes it into a finished cut, leaving a significant archive of footage on the shelf. When the topic of what to do with that material came up, Husney struck an optimistic tone, saying, “Maybe there is a path for that, it would be really cool.”

It’s a tantalizing prospect for wrestling historians and fans alike. Dark Side of the Ring has become one of the most prominent vehicles for in-depth storytelling about the industry’s more turbulent chapters, and the interviews it conducts frequently touch on events that don’t make it into any given episode’s final narrative. A release of extended or unused interviews could function as a meaningful companion archive to the series itself.

For now, the immediate focus is Season 7’s opening chapter on TNA, which premieres on July 7, 2026. Whether Husney and the production team eventually find that “path” to release the vault of unused footage remains to be seen, but the fact that the conversation is happening at all will likely generate considerable excitement among the show’s devoted fanbase.