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 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
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Episode 50: NWA Capital Combat 1990 (The Return...
It's a combo of movies and pro wrestling as the Turner-owned WCW (NWA?) promotes the new RoboCop movie...on pay-per-view...in the worst way possible! But besides RoboCop and his unfortunate appearance, WCW is in disarray as they're changing bookers,...
103 min
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Episode 49: WWF In Your House 8: Beware of Dog ...
It was the 2-night event that wasn't supposed to be a 2-night event in South Carolina! This was the infamous show where a severe storm knocked out building's power and the WWF wasn't prepared with good enough generators for the lights and their...
95 min
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Episode 48: WCW SuperBrawl I (Return from the R...
This was the first ever SuperBrawl and the only one to take place in May. There were so many future main event stars and future undercard jokes on this card for both WCW and the WWF. There were also two big-name tag-team stars that were going solo...
98 min
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Episode 47: WWF In Your House 7: Good Friends, ...
WWF Champion Shawn Michaels and Diesel made good friends, but made better enemies! This was the final WWF pay-per-view appearance for both Diesel and Razor Ramon before they went on to WCW to make history. This In Your House was certainly unique...
93 min
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BONUS: WWF Raw is War, 4-13-98 (The 83 Weeks Sn...
For 83 straight weeks, WCW Monday Nitro was pounding WWF Raw is War like a drum! However, by April of 1998, the tide was turning. WrestleMania 14 was a HUGE success with the crowning of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as the new top guy and face of the...
104 min
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Episode 46: TNA Lockdown 2011 (Immortal vs Fort...
On this 10 year anniversary, we're covering the 7th annual TNA Lockdown event! Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan turned heel back at Bound for Glory 2010 (now in the archives) to form their new group, Immortal. Ric Flair has turned on his group, Fortune,...
94 min
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Episode 45: WCW Spring Stampede 1994
WCW had just signed Hulk Hogan, but he wouldn't yet appear on pay-per-view for the Atlanta-based wrestling promotion. In this very first ever Spring Stampede show, WCW went back to "old faithful" with putting Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat against each...
91 min
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Episode 44: TNA Lockdown 2006 (ft. Jimmy Pallot...
It was the second TNA Lockdown event ever, held just weeks after WrestleMania 22! Top to bottom, this all-cage pay-per-view has a lot of offer to a variety of fans and was actually a damn good and memorable show, topped off with Lethal Lockdown (their...
98 min
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Episode 43: WWE WrestleMania 21 (WrestleMania G...
WrestleMania went Hollywood back in 2005, just weeks before TNA held their first ever all-cage match pay-per-view, Lockdown. This is also the second WrestleMania in a row to break the trend of stadiums in favor of an arena. The story of this event is...
101 min
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BONUS: TNA Destination X 2006
This was certainly a fun event for anyone who likes classic TNA. Christian Cage defends his NWA Title in the main event against "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown, Samoa Joe defends his X-Division Title against AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels in an...
93 min
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Episode 42: ECW Living Dangerously 2000
This is a long one, but there's A LOT of subject matter to cover. And yes...there is a trigger warning in here for you! The Marks (Troy & Greg) are diving headfirst back into the Hell Hole that was Extreme Championship Wrestling. This one was quite...
115 min
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Episode 40: WCW Greed 2001 (The Final WCW PPV)
We are officially 2 decades removed from the final pay-per-view event under the World Championship Wrestling banner. Rookies squashed some legends, some legends really SHOWED THEIR ASSES, new champions were crowned, the opener was surprisingly...
89 min
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Episode 39: WWF WrestleMania VIII (The Macho/Fl...
It's a special double main event as Hulk Hogan clashes with Sid Justice and "Nature Boy" Ric Flair defends the WWF Title against the "Macho Man" Randy Savage! The Marks (Troy & Greg) both absolutely love the year 1992 in the WWF, and this show is a...
93 min
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Episode 38: TNA Against All Odds 2005
TNA pay-per-views were still in their infancy here, but the Marks (Troy & Greg) had their fandom fully bloomed for Total Nonstop Action wrestling! However, this was certainly less "a tale of two shows" and more of "a tale of 3-4 shows." You've got an...
95 min
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BONUS: WWE No Way Out 2006
Plucked from the mid-Ruthless Aggression Era, this was when WWE was really pumping out a great in-ring product with some over-the-top storylines! The stars seemed more like...you know...stars. The match quality was usually pretty good or amazing, and...
79 min
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Episode 37: WCW SuperBrawl VIII (Sting vs Hogan...
After the events of Starrcade 1997, the WCW World Heavyweight Title was held up. Now, Sting gets his SECOND chance to take on Hollywood Hogan in this show's main event. Will there be shenanigans? Of course there will be! It's WCW! There is also a...
90 min
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Episode 36: WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Won't you be our sweet Valen-Marks? This was the 27th and final In Your House event from February of 1999. Stone Cold Steve Austin took on Mr. McMahon in a Steel Cage match event match, Ken Shamrock puts his Intercontinental Title on the line against...
84 min
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SUPER BOWL BONUS: WWF Halftime Heat 1999 Watch-...
In honor of Super Bowl LV where the Kansas City Chiefs meet the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, we're watchin' some retro rasslin'! We're going all the way back to Super Bowl 33 for this one as the Rock defends his WWF World Heavyweight Title against Mankind on...
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Episode 35: WCW SuperBrawl III (White Castle of...
Let's tell you a story about WCW in 1993... Big Van Vader was apparently living in a cave in the Rocky Mountains that he called the White Castle of Fear. Sting was on his way to this White Castle of Fear to have a strap match against Vader. However,...
97 min
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Episode 34: ECW Guilty as Charged 1999
It's co-host Greg's least favorite thing in the world: Extreme Championship Wrestling. Co-host Troy hand-picked this show because of how big of a fan he is of Taz and Shane Douglas, and this show honestly got better marks from the Marks than any...
82 min
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BONUS: WWF Royal Rumble 1988 (ft. Jacob Grondy ...
It's bonus show time again, and Jacob Grondy, from Curtain Jerkin' on WrestlingWithWrestling.com is back! It was the first official Royal Rumble in WWE history. It was on USA Network; not on pay-per-view, the Royal Rumble match was a 20-man match, and...
93 min
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Episode 33: WWF Royal Rumble 2000 (Start of the...
The new millennium gets the pay-per-view lineup kicked off by the World Wrestling Federation with the Royal Rumble 2000! And boy, the WWF brought the heat with this one! Last week, we told you how WCW kicked off the new year with Souled Out. Needless...
89 min