Tony Atlas was hooked on cocaine and suicidal, but he was saved by a woman named Monika White who called 911 when she saw him freezing to death on the street.

Atlas told VICE that he got a call from a girl he’d been seeing. She said she had new shoes and wanted to walk all over him. Excited, Tony started getting ready to leave the building.

Tony Atlas was hooked on cocaine and suicidal, but he was saved by a woman named Monika White who called 911 when she saw him freezing to death on the street.

When Tony got out of hospital, Monica told Atlas he could stay with her if he needed somewhere to go. That was a wake up call to the former WWF star. He started going back to the gym and got a ...

Tony claims that fellow NWA and WWF alumni Dick Murdoch (one of the most random WWE Royal Rumble entrants ever) was a member of the KKK and was handing out flyers in the locker room one day.

Tony has a different outlook on it all. He said the WWF could've put him in "a pink gorilla suit and [he'd] have loved it at that time". After all, don't forget that Atlas had gone from eating out ...

There's been a lot of talk over the years on message boards and social media about Tony Atlas's foot fetish. On 'Dark Side', he addressed this once and for all, and explained how it all started.

This story is a sad commentary on race issues in wrestling back in the 1970s and 80s. Tony chuckled that this would "be called racism today", but back then it was called “average”. To him, at ...

One day, Atlas pulled a Colt 357 Magnum out of his bag and fired the gun at the ceiling in the dressing room. He kinda suggested that this wasn't an isolated incident on the documentary, which is ...

The best 'Dark Side Of The Ring' episodes blend two things: Human tragedy and human redemption. For Tony Atlas, a man who had the world at his feet in WWE then tossed it all aside, it's the latter ...

Amazingly, the Crocketts actually paid Atlas $150 per week in the mid-1970s just so he'd agree to train to become a wrestler. Think about that, and then think about the era this was all happening in.

The clip was taken from Tony vs. Hulk on a WWF card inside the hallowed halls of Madison Square Garden on 16 March 1981, and it's regarded as one of Atlas's finest hours. Tony beat Hogan clean on ...