Main Event Marks
It's the best of retro wrestling! Former media personality, Troy, & walking Wrestling Encyclopedia, Greg, will teach you something and make you laugh with breakdowns of the best, worst, and funniest subjects from pro wrestling's past! These two lifelong wrestling marks and memorabilia collectors will bring you not only the fan's perspective, but all the news and backstage goodness they can dig up after-the-fact!
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Episode 103: WCW Slamboree 1997 (WCW vs NFL)
It was the night 3 NFL superstars (one now a fulltime wrestler) took part in a WCW pay-per-view! Slamboree was never one of WCW's marquee events throughout the year, but they tried to bring the goods in one of greatest years in company history (at...
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BONUS: WWF Saturday Night's Main Event 1
Coming out of WrestleMania I, we had Saturday Night's Main Event debuting on NBC in May of 1985! These shows were always structured weird, and this one was the first one to do so. The "main event" was actually the second match on the show, with Hulk...
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Episode 102: TNA Sacrifice 2007
It was a night of Triple Threat title matches. All 3 title matches (X-Division, Tag, & World Heavyweight) were Triple Threats and all three were good to great. The former America's Most Wanted of James Storm and Chris Harris fought in a Texas...
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Episode 101: ECW Wrestlepalooza 1998
ECW was always the "wild west" of professional wrestling. The Marks (Troy & Greg) were not fans, but they're expanding their horizons by covering this one. Rob Van Dam and Sabu (both clients of Bill Alfonso) were feuding over the TV Title. The Dudley...
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Episode 100: WWF Judgment Day 2000 (Return of t...
We're finally here at episode 100, and we're doing it BIG! For a "throwaway pay-per-view" like Judgment Day, this one was freakin' awesome! Almost everything in the WWF in the year 2000 was hot as hell and almost everyone was over as all hell! Chris...
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Episode 99: TNA Lockdown 2012 (Roode vs. Storm)
It's Lockdown, where every match is held inside of a steel cage! We're going a decade back in history to when Bobby Roode was riding high as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. He put his title on the line, in the main event, in a cage, against "The...
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BONUS: WCW Nitro, April 10, 2000 (The Reboot)
Eric Bischoff was sent home from WCW around August of 1999, leaving the ship without a definitive captain. Vince Russo showed up in WCW in October of 1999, right before Halloween Havoc, and was gone by January of 2000, right before Souled Out. It's...
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Episode 98: WWF In Your House 14 - Revenge of t...
Mankind and Paul Bearer burned the Undertaker's face. Now, the Deadman wants revenge! This was also the first pay-per-view after WrestleMania XIII and everyone is gunning for the WWF Title. Bret Hart is on his anti-America crusade and Stone Cold Steve...
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Episode 97: TNA Lockdown 2007
Our journey through TNA's 2007 in pay-per-views continues! And this time, every single match is in a cage! Honestly, it wasn't a bad show. The two marquee matches for this one were Team 3D vs. LAX for the NWA World Tag-Team Titles in an Electrified...
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Episode 96: WCW Spring Stampede 1997 (DDP vs. M...
It was the night the "Macho Man" Randy Savage said, "I think I want to take the Diamond Cutter tonight!" And take it, he did! This is the match that made people look at Diamond Dallas Page as a bonified main eventer. Also on this card, we see Booker T...
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Episode 95: WWE WrestleMania 24 (Ric Flair's La...
It certainly was The Usual Suspects in the two World Title matches on this show, but they were so, so good! While Triple H, John Cena, & Randy Orton fought in a Triple Threat match for the WWE Title, the Undertaker and Edge competed for the World...
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BONUS: NWA Clash of the Champions 1 (Flair vs. ...
The very first Clash of the Champions event happened in March of 1988 on cable TV to go head-to-head with WrestleMania IV, which was on PPV. Side-by-side, this was definitely the superior show with good matches, an amazing main event, and it launched...
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Episode 94: TNA Destination X 2007 (Fire Russo!)
Chants of "Fire Russo!" rained down in the Impact Zone when Sting and Abyss faced off in a Last Rites match. "What is a Last Rites match?" you may ask. It's a Casket match with more steps, stupid props, and Vince Russo's messed up brain behind it....
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Episode 93: WWF WrestleMania X8 - Icon vs Icon
Dedicated to the memory or "Da Bad Guy" Scott Hall. This was one of the Marks' most favorite WrestleManias of all time! It was the final run for Hollywood Hogan in the New World Order and it was the symbolic "passing of the torch" from Hogan to Rock,...
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Episode 92: WCW Uncensored 1999
This was better than '95 and '96, but what's that really saying? All in all, the history of WCW's Uncensored pay-per-views have been completely crap. This one was no different. However, the Marks (Troy & Greg) make this one friggin' fun, which is more...
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Episode 91: WWF WrestleMania III
Bigger! Better! Badder! Live from the Pontiac Silverdome (BROTHER!!!), WrestleMania III broke indoor attendance records as the Irresistible Force met the Immovable Object! The immortal Hulk Hogan put his WWF World Heavyweight Title on the line against...
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Episode 90: WWF No Way Out of Texas 1998
For the 20th In Your House event, there was No Way Out of Texas! The main event was supposed to be the team of Stone Cold Steve Austin, Owen Hart, Cactus Jack, & Chainsaw Charlie (Terry Funk) taking on Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and the New Age...
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BONUS: WWF Raw, February 3, 1997 (1st 2-Hour Raw)
Dubbed "Royal Rumble Raw," this was the 1st ever 2-hour edition of Raw and featured the fallout from the 1997 Royal Rumble! Stone Cold Steve Austin was heating up, Sycho Sid was more over than he'd ever been, Bret Hart was hell-bent on getting the WWF...
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Episode 89: ECW CyberSlam 1996
At the beginning of 1996, WCW was riding high, WWF was coming back from their worst year to date, and ECW was only beginning to get extreme. To be blunt, this entire show was a damn mess. Most "matches" on this show lasted only a minute or two, there...
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Episode 88: TNA Against All Odds 2007
After last month's Final Resolution PPV, Christian Cage is set to defend the NWA World Title against Kurt Angle in the main event. Scott Steiner just returned to the company and is backing Christian up along with Tomko and AJ Styles. That's not the...
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Episode 87: WCW SuperBrawl VII (Hogan vs Piper)
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper was in WCW for one reason: To take the WCW Title off of Hollywood Hogan. But do Hogan and the New World Order have an ace card up their sleeves? At this event, (which Main Event Mark, Greg, was at live) he got that opportunity....
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Episode 86: WWF Royal Rumble 2001
This was the one where Drew Carey entered the Royal Rumble. Yup... Other than that, though, it was a great show! On that fateful night in Louisiana, Kurt Angle defended his WWF Title against Triple H, the biggest wrestling stars in the world (Stone...
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BONUS: The NWO in WWE
THEY...ARE TAKING...OVER!!! No, not really. They were cool for a second, started falling apart within a month, and then were held together by chewing gum, duct tape, and safety pins for a few more months. Either way, it was considered a YUGE deal when...
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Episode 85: NWA Bunkhouse Stampede 1988
Yee haw! This was a Dusty Rhodes creation all the way, inspired by the old west days of farmhands getting into fights at the bunkhouse. However, this show with a southern theme took place in Uniondale, New York...which is clearly well known for their...
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Episode 84: WWE Royal Rumble 2017 (Remember the...
Do you remember the Rumble? This was the final year before the women of WWE got their very own Royal Rumble match. This one was pumped up as "the biggest Rumble in WWE history" (which had been used multiple times in the past) because the Undertaker,...
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