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 69: TNA Unbreakable 2005 (Greatest Trip...
This may have been basically a one-match show, but what a match it was! If you've never seen Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe, you need to stop everything you're doing and watch it immediately! It is definitely the greatest Triple Threat...
88 min
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BONUS: Vince Russo Runs WCW...Into the Ground
The stories of Vince Russo running WCW are the stuff of legends. Not good legends...but legends. Kind of like the legends of the Trojans being fooled by a giant, wooden horse full of enemy soldiers, or that guy who was cursed by the Greek gods to have...
110 min
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Episode 68: WWF Unforgiven 2001
I wouldn't call this one a "classic," but it was definitely a much better than average show that hardly ever gets talked about. Rob Van Dam and Chris Jericho tear it up for the Hardcore Title, Shane McMahon & Booker T fight to take the WCW Title away...
95 min
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Episode 67: WCW Fall Brawl 1999 (Sting & Hogan ...
This was the first Fall Brawl without a WarGames match and the second-to-last Fall Brawl ever. The house was only about 50% full, and if you see this show, you'll know exactly why. And, this is was about 2 months before Vince Russo even gets ahold of...
97 min
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Episodes 66: WWF In Your House 10: Mind Games
Can you play mind games with someone who doesn't have much of a mind!? I don't know, but Shawn Michaels said something to this effect, and it was weird. This main event may be a somewhat forgotten classic, absolutely shattering all expectations as...
95 min
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Episode 65: WCW Fall Brawl 1996
The nWo is runnin' wild, brother! Ted DiBiase and The Giant have joined and now it appears that...Sting has joined the New World Order!? Did the Stinger turn his back on WCW to join the Black & White? It sure seems like it! Or can you believe your...
99 min
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Episode 64: WWE SummerSlam 2005
This was Legend vs Icon as Shawn Michaels took on Hulk Hogan! This was the big, built up, main event of the evening. However, almost this entire show was great. If you skip the first couple of matches, no one would blame you. That adds up to a total...
96 min
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BONUS: TNA Hardcore Justice 2010
In 2010, almost an entire decade after the closure of ECW, TNA Wrestling decided to resurrect the corpse of the South Philly, bingo hall, wrestling promotion and let it have one last run in the limelight...for one night only! However, due to copyright...
85 min
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Episode 63: ECW Heat Wave 1998
If you're a long-time listener to the podcast, you'll know that the Marks (Troy & Greg) don't like ECW. However, this show broke the mold. This may be the greatest top-to-bottom effort Extreme Championship Wrestling ever put forth. From Credible vs...
96 min
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Episode 62: WWF SummerSlam 1991
It's the Match Made in Heaven and the Match Made in Hell! The Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth have their wedding in the ring to close this show and the actual main event is Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior taking on The Triangle of Terror (Sgt....
92 min
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Episode 61: WCW New Blood Rising 2000
WCW was a coffin on roller skates at this point and had been for quite a while. While this didn't win any Worst Major Wrestling Show of the Year awards, it was certainly in contention. We have an ROTC (Rip of the Camouflage) match where a woman fakes...
96 min
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Episode 60: WWE Money in the Bank 2011
It's been an entire decade since this fateful event! This was the night CM Punk's contract ran out at midnight and he walked out with the WWE Title. At least...in storyline. In 2011, CM Punk was the leader of the New Nexus after former members Wade...
91 min
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BONUS: Diesel's 1995 in WWF
1995 gets a lot of guff from wrestling fans, us include, and for good reason. The entire year throughout ECW, WCW, and WWF was completely horrible. "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel, however, gets a lot of the blame from the wrestling community for awful...
87 min
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Episode 59: WWF InVasion 2001
It's been 10 years since this pay-per-view took place! 2001 was a weird, weird year in the wrestling world. Both ECW and WCW finally shut their doors and their properties were bought up by Vince McMahon and the WWF. In storyline, WCW was owned by...
85 min
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Episode 58: TNA Destination X 2011
By the summer of 2011, Immortal had taken over TNA and Fortune had went full-on babyface. Abyss was the attack dog for Immortal to take down the X-Division, and he won the title, recristening it The X-Treme Title. Now, it's up to Brian Kendrick to...
92 min
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Episode 57: WCW Bash at the Beach 1996 (The NWO...
If you don't know this show, you're either not a wrestling fan or you just started watching. Bash at the Beach 1996 had a pretty good undercard, including Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Psychosis and Dean Malenko vs Disco Inferno, but the entire night was...
91 min
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Episode 56: TNA Slammiversary XI (2013)
Aces & Eights were running the show in TNA in 2013. Bully Ray had revealed himself as the mastermind of the entire operation, multiple members of the TNA roster defected, and no one knew if they could trust the newly returned, dark, brooding AJ...
98 min
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BONUS: WCW Great American Bash 2000 (The Last One)
For this bonus show, we bring you one of the worst pay-per-views in history. Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff were both steering the ship in World Championship Wrestling, but Russo was hard at work, steering it into the nearest iceberg he could find....
111 min
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Episode 55: WWF King of the Ring 1996
We're continuing on with our walk through the year 1996 in WWE. This event was the birth of Austin 3:16 and "That's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!" after Steve Austin defeated Jake "The Snake" Roberts in the finals of the King of the Ring...
95 min
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Episode 54: WCW Great American Bash 1991
This was the Great American Bash that advertised Ric Flair...but didn't deliver Ric Flair! "The Nature Boy" had recently been fired before this show after being advertised to defend the NWA Title against Lex Luger in a cage. He'd soon be popping up in...
107 min
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Episode 53: WWF King of the Ring 1993 (1 Year A...
To celebrate our 1 year anniversary of podcasting, we're covering the very first ever WWF King of the Ring PPV from 1993! This was certainly a showcase for Bret Hart to show that he was WWF's answer to Ric Flair as the true Iron Man, it was a great...
111 min
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BONUS: AEW Double or Nothing 2021 (ft. Mr. Warr...
We literally NEVER talk about current product on this podcast (except for a fleeting mention here or there), but with the guest of Mr. Warren Hayes from the Mr. Warren Hayes Show, we couldn't help ourselves. We're bringing this TOTALLY UNPLANNED bonus...
50 min
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Episode 52: TNA Slammiversary 2006 (5 Years of ...
It's 5 years of TNA, and we're celebrating it on our final show of our first year of podcasting! America's Most Wanted defends the NWA Tag Titles against AJ Styles & Christopher Daniels in an amazing match, Scott Steiner and Samoa Joe shockingly tear...
95 min
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Episode 51: AWA SuperClash II
The second of 4 SuperClash events had what should have been the main event smack dab in the middle of the card. The AWA Title was defended by Nick Bockwinkel against Curt Hennig, years before he would go on to become Mr. Perfect in the WWF. The crazy...
85 min
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BONUS: ECW Hardcore Heaven 2000
Extreme Championship Wrestling was more than just circling the drain at this point. TNN announced that they would be dropping ECW TV and picking up WWF Raw is War in the fall, ECW couldn't hold onto talent as they were leaving for greener pastures,...
98 min