Kevin Von Erich Recalls Hearing About Gino Hernandez’s Death, Talks Dark Side of the Ring Episodes

– Kevin Von Erich spoke with Wrestling Inc and discussed several of the stories featured in the first season of Dark Side of the Ring, including Fabulous Moolah, Bruiser Brody and Gino Hernandez. The highlights are below:

On Gino Hernandez’s death: “It was such a strange thing and I was in Japan when that happened. They say ‘Telephone, Telegraph, Tell-a-wrestler.’ I was coming out of my hotel just hours after it happened and they told me about it and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. All of that other stuff about that mafia, I didn’t know about that. I knew he was betting on football games and those were kind of mafia guys who did all that … It was just terrible and I didn’t really gain anything from Vice. That was all new to me and I can’t really say on that. I don’t know what all they did and I can’t really comment. I think those Dark Side of the Ring things are some of the most enlightening pieces I’ve ever seen done.”

On the episode covering Bruiser Brody’s death: “I’ve talked to Tony Atlas and he told me what went on down there. I didn’t know [Brody] was working with Abdullah and to hear Abdullah talking about it, I didn’t like that. I don’t have anything bad to say about Abdullah but Brody was a good man.”

On the Fabulous Moolah episode: “I don’t know about a lot of that, it was kind of in my dad’s day. But from my dad being president of the NWA and me seeing the girl wrestlers, yes, Moolah gave so much to the business. She took care of those girls and they lived in her house. I wouldn’t say anything bad about Moolah because she did a whole lot of this business. As far as the behind the scenes stuff, I don’t know a lot about gossip except it’s hardly ever any good. I don’t know anything bad about Moolah. All I can say is I have a lot of respect for her, from what I know about her.”