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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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...
89 min
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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...
87 min
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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...
97 min
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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....
96 min
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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...
92 min
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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...
90 min
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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...
72 min
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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,...
99 min
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Episode 83: TNA Final Resolution 2007 (Angle vs...
The kick off 2007, Sting could sense "the good" within Abyss and tried to break James Mitchell's "spell" over him. Meanwhile, Christian Cage had his "problem solver" back by his side as Tomko joined TNA, and now, Christian has his eyes set on Abyss's...
101 min
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Episode 82: WCW Starrcade 1998 (The End of Gold...
While 1998 on the whole was a pretty good year in wrestling (maybe one of the best), WCW was about to go on a great, great decline. Goldberg was hot as hell, he was still on his streak, he defeated Hollywood Hogan for the WCW Title in the Georgia...
100 min
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BONUS: Our Spotlight Interview with John Arezzi
He's been on Vice's Dark Side of the Ring, he basically created wrestling conventions, he's interviewed some of the biggest names wrestling has ever produced, he's been on the radio, he's got a podcast, he's been in Major League Baseball, he's been in...
85 min
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Episode 81: TNA Final Resolution 2011
After Bobby Roode destroyed Fortune from within, "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles is looking to take Roode's coveted TNA World Heavyweight Title from him in a 30-Minute Iron Man Match! Besides that, Jeff Jarrett battles Jeff Hardy in a steel cage, where if...
60 min
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Episode 80: WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders, & Chairs ...
SmackDown Live was the hot property and they were gonna show everything off in Human Demolition Derbies at the end of the calendar year back in 2016! AJ Styles puts his WWE Title on the line against Dean Ambrose in the main event TLC match only to...
89 min
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Episode 79: WWF Vengeance 2001
Let the Marks (Troy & Greg) tell you a tale of when Chris Jericho defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock in the same night to become the 1st ever WWE Undisputed Champion. Years and years before Jericho became "Le Champion," he was just "Y2J"...
96 min
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Episode 78: WCW Starrcade 1993 (The 10th Annive...
Stop me if you've heard this one before! Ric Flair's career is on the line! In this show's defense, it was the first time (of MANY) that "The Nature Boy" put his career on the line, and it certainly upped the stakes for him vs Vader for Vader's WCW...
85 min
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Episode 77: WCW Mayhem 2000 (The Last One)
Vince Russo was all but gone from WCW at this point, but the stench remained. Ric Flair looked dead inside as he limped along as the "CEO of WCW," "Above Average" Mike Sanders was ALSO an authority figure as the Commissioner, and no one cared. Almost...
100 min
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BONUS: WWF Raw, 11/04/1996 (Pillman's Got a Gun)
On November 4, 1996 on WWF Monday night Raw, Stone Cold Steve Austin didn't know who he was f***ing with (according to Brian Pillman). The story of this entire (EXTREMELY controversial) episode of Raw was that Austin felt disrespected by Pillman...
70 min
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Episode 76: WWF Survivor Series 1998 (Deadly Game)
It's the Deadly Game, where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted! Look, let's be honest, here...there was a ton of star power in the WWF in 1998 and they were crapping gold wherever they went. This was entertaining as all hell with a HUGE...
90 min
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Episode 75: TNA Genesis 2006 (Kurt Angle vs Sam...
TNA Genesis 2006, at the time, was TNA's highest selling pay-per-view domestically, selling just over 60,000 buys and beating previously set record of 55,000 at Bound For Glory 2006 (now in the archives). No doubt, this was due to everyone wanting to...
94 min
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Episode 74: WWF Survivor Series 1991 (30 Year A...
It's THE GRAVEST CHALLENGE as Hulkamania goes up against The Deadman on the 1-year anniversary of The Undertaker's debut in the WWF! And the Marks (Troy & Greg) are all here for it! The undercard isn't all that great, and the title match doesn't even...
94 min
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Episode 73: WCW Halloween Havoc 1996
A Night Of Terror And Suspense! This one was a pretty damn good event, but it follows a few very basic Halloween Havoc rules. 1. Rey Mysterio has an amazing match. 2. Hulk Hogan has a horrible match. 3. The event ends randomly because the timing was...
108 min
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BONUS: WCCW in 1986 and 1988
WCCW was a "coffin on rollerskates" (to quote Tony Schiavone) in 1986 and certainly in 1988. Attendance was way down, the Von Erichs were tragically falling apart, original ideas were scarce, and the territories as a whole were just failing,...
105 min
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Episode 72: TNA Bound for Glory 2006 (15 Year A...
We're bound for glory with Total Nonstop Action! While the Marks (Troy & Greg) ironically cover a lot of bad/funny shows, this one was fantastic and possibly the greatest Bound for Glory in TNA history. Hop in the Way Back Machine with the Marks and...
95 min
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Episode 71: WCW Halloween Havoc 1991 (Chamber o...
Let's journey 30 years into the past when a man was electrified on live pay-per-view...and lived to tell about it. Even though it was the opening match on the show, it was the most memorable. Maybe not for the right reasons... The WCW World Title was...
95 min
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Episode 70: WWE No Mercy 2006 (15 Year Annivers...
No Mercy was usually hit-and-miss with quality, but this one gets overlooked for how good it really was. 15 years ago, King Booker was the reigning World Champion on SmackDown!, and General Manager Theodore Long put him against 3 competitors: Batista,...
86 min