It’s the best of retro wrestling! Former media personality, Troy, &amp; 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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It&#39;s Troy &amp; Greg&#39;s 4th time digging deep into the pile of crap that was Vince Russo&#39;s tenure writing and running WCW Nitro, and we&#39;re not even near done! We&#39;re going from just after WCW Great American Bash 2000 all the way through the infamous Bash at the Beach 2000. If you listened to parts 1-3, you know how we do. We&#39;re covering THE WORST moments (and the biggest moments) from Vince&#39;s run. And ooooh boy, this one is juicy!

Episode 232: Russo Ruins Nitro Part 4

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We&#39;re still in May, slogging through the Bog of Eternal Stench that was WCW Nitro under the untethered reign of Vince Russo. We managed to make it all the way to Great American Bash 2000, where we put a bow on this episode and look ahead to the Pit of Despair ahead. But hey, at least we&#39;re able to look back and laugh our a**es off.

Episode 231: Russo Ruins Nitro Part 3

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ECW Hardcore Heaven 1995 was gritty, schizo, and a bit sloppy. Not surprising for ECW in &#39;95. It featured the Dudley Brothers&#39; debut, Axl and Ian Rotten in a Taipei Deathmatch, The Sandman facing Cactus Jack for the ECW World Title, and Public Enemy&#39;s ECW goodbye. At the end, I&#39;m including some short bonus content from ECW in 1996!

Episode 230: ECW Hardcore Heaven 1995

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After Vince Russo left WCW (took his ball and went home to cry because he was told &#34;no&#34; about something), he was eventually talked into coming back. This time, he was full-time on screen as an authority figure along with Eric Bischoff. The storylines got dumber. The matches got weirder. Everything got sleazier. And there were TOURNAMENTS GALORE, BRO!

Episode 229: Russo Ruins Nitro Part 2

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Debuting in 1994 and shooting straight to the top, Paul Wight had a meteoric rise in professional wrestling but an overall goofy, bumpy career. Was it successful? Yes. Is he a legend? Yes. But was he also used terribly and the butt of too many jokes? Absolutely. We cover it all and have fun with this look back at the life and times of the Big Show!

Episode 228: Well, That's the Big Show!

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We&#39;re starting a new series about what WCW Monday Nitro looked like under the Vince Russo regime. Part 1 is going to be the nicest we&#39;re going to get for ol&#39; Vinny Ru-Ru as we cover his start in 1999, going only by the name &#34;The Powers That Be.&#34; It&#39;s soooo bad... but trust me... it gets worse!

Episode 227: Russo Ruins Nitro Pt. 1

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A sequel to last week&#39;s episode, Troy follows up on part 2 of Kane&#39;s career. We&#39;re starting from Kane&#39;s first unmasking and follow &#34;The Big Freakin&#39; Machine&#39;s&#34; career up until his Hall of Fame induction.

Episode 226: Kane Unmasked!

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In this never-before-heard audio, the Marks explore the life and career of Kane, from Glenn Jacobs&#39; childhood and early wrestling days to his rise as the Big Red Machine, up to his shocking unmasking in 2003.

Episode 225: That's Gotta be Kane!

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Troy is joined by his Texan friend Santiago (RIP) from a blast from the past. AAA TripleMania XXVII delivered shocking betrayals, championship battles, and unforgettable Lucha Libre action. From high-stakes title matches to dramatic twists, this was one of AAA&#39;s most memorable nights.

Episode 224: AAA TripleMania XXVII

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We did it once, but we&#39;re doing it again! This time, we&#39;ve got a new perspective/take on the very first ever Vengeance from 2001, where Chris Jericho became the first ever WWF Undisputed Champion. Once you hear us have some fun picking this one apart and talking about the glory years of wrestling, check out Episode 79, where we get more in-depth with star ratings and the news of the day.

Episode 223: WWF Vengeance 2001 Redux

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On a hot summer night in 1995, between the absolute turd of King of the Ring &#39;95 and the awesome Survivor Series &#39;95, we got SummerSlam &#39;95. The entire show was garbage except for a halfway decent Casket Match between the Undertaker and Kama, and an amazing Ladder Match where Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon ran back their historic WrestleMania X encounter for the IC Title. Diesel did his best in the main event against King Mabel and almost got paralyzed for it.

Episode 222: WWF SummerSlam 1995

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We&#39;re venturing back into the dark side of wrestling history! Today, we cover headlining mega stars like Sting, Shawn Michaels, Yokozuna, and the Hardy Boyz. We also go over failed or floundering promotions like TNA, GFW, CZW, and the industry-shaking #SpeakingOut Movement. We wrap it all up with the dark side of lucha libre as we cover Oro, Abismo Negro, La Ola Blanca, and La Dama Del Silencio.

Episode 221: Dark Side of Headliners, Promotions, Movements, & Lucha

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I&#39;ve compiled the biggest wrestling news stories for this episode. WWE&#39;s global ambitions, AEW and WWE visa issues, major injuries, heartbreaking losses, surprise departures, and the mysterious absences of EC3 and Jack Perry, I&#39;m breaking it all down.

Episode 220: WWE Global Plans | R.I.P. Joe Doering | Major Injuries | Shocking Departures & Returns

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Ted Turner, who founded CNN and owned WCW for over a decade, passed away. TKO Group Holdings (and by extension, WWE) are cutting costs and requesting talent take pay cuts or pink slips. Is AEW&#39;s TV future in jeopardy? We&#39;ve also got lawfare south of the border.

Episode 219: R.I.P. Ted Turner | WWE Cost Cutting | AEW's TV Future

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With WrestleMania 42 now in the books, I&#39;m going to run down all the good, the bad, and the in-between. The build to the show was whacky, some of the matches were odd, night 1 was so-so, and night 2 ended pretty divisively.

Episode 218: WWE WrestleMania 42

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Despite being called the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania, WrestleMania 25 was not that. Nor was it a great show. From men winning divas battle royals, to Kid Rock getting way too much screen time, to John Cena being jackhammered into an Edge and Big Show feud, to the blood feud between Triple H and Randy Orton being neutered by a stipulation, this show was not great. However, there were some high points, especially when it came to Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels.

Episode 217: WWE WrestleMania 25 (The 24th* Anniversary of WrestleMania)

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Weird gimmicks, multi-people matches, nonsensical feuds, BS finishes, and ignoring the rules. That and so much more is what you can expect from WWF WrestleMania XV, which took place in 1999 in the home of ECW, Philadelphia!

Episode 216: WWF WrestleMania XV

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It was the massive event that started it all! Was it the greatest wrestling event of all time? Not by a longshot. But WrestleMania 1 is near and dear to many wrestling fans, and it launched Vince McMahon&#39;s WWF empire into superstardom! Troy &amp; Greg break it all down, match-by-match, segment-by-segment, and run down their opinions on this historic show.

Episode 215: WWF WrestleMania 1

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We&#39;ve covered, in two different ways, WCW&#39;s inaugural Uncensored event from 1995. Now, we move on to 1996, where The Mega Powers take on The Alliance to End Hulkamania (real name) in a 3-tier cage match. This event has 2-on-8, 3-story cage matches, the Booty Man, battling Hispanics for the US Title, feuding Europeans, giants clashing, a disastrous Chicago Street Fight, and more! My God, this was a beautiful mess.

Episode 214: WCW Uncensored 1996

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In 1994, Extreme Championship Wrestling put on their infamous The Night the Line was Crossed show from the ECW Arena. In 1997, their historic Hardcore Heaven event took place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Today, Greg and I are reviewing them both and having fun trying to figure out WTF is even going on!

Episode 213: ECW Extreme Review 1994 & 1997

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