Snark Marks, A Very Funny Podcast

With One Night Stand 2005 being such a huge success, WWE decided to run it back in 2006 to kick off the resurrection of the brand full time. One Night Stand 2006 featured many of the mainstays that we are used to, but WWE's sticky fingers and corporate influence start to show their ugly hands. The nerds in the crowd are hot, Beulah gets assaulted, and Terry Funk is just the best. Join us!  Fo...

ECW captured the hearts and minds of thousands of degenerates in the short time that it existed. In 2005, on the back of the Rise and Fall of ECW documentary, WWE decided to let the freakshow have a swan song. The evening ended up being everything an ECW fan could have asked for. There was fire, chanting, concussions, cheese graters, and Eric Bischofff laying motionless in the center of the ring....

Holy cow. We made it. Fifty numbered episodes of Snark Marks. There has been twists, turns, Bret Michaelses, Jannettys, and so much more for half a century of installments, and we are still having just as much fun as when we started. Our sincere gratitude goes to anyone who has ever listened, particularly those who have stuck around and who interact with us.  On today's show, our wrestling or...

Dusty and Andrew know the exact date they watched their first wrestling show together. On April 6, 2014, the boys convened to watch Wrestlemania 30 at Dusty's house. Dusty made Andrew promise to allow him to pay attention and Andrew sat down with his chicken supreme and behaved like a good boy. Neither knew that it would eventually turn into the best doggone wrestling podcast two thirty-somethings...

ECW was, in a word, extreme. Beers, blood, New Jack, women getting 3D'd... it was madness from bell to bell. Paul Heyman had a vision and refused to waver, but ultimately that may have cost him his dream. Andrew and Dusty watched The Rise and Fall of ECW on Peacock and got together to discuss. Also discussed is the first six inductees to the Idell Wrestling Federation Outcast Hall of Fame. Yes, Di...

The future of the wrestling industry is at stake. Actually it is clearly not at stake and everybody knows how this is going to end, they just want it to be quick. The Invasion storyline had not worked out the way WWF intended, and it was determined that it could not make it all the way to Wrestlemania five months later. This may have been the only good decision they had made since buying WCW. Join...

Dusty and a very hungover Andrew continue to discuss what went wrong with WWF's Invasion angle in 2001. At No Mercy, the WWF finally seems to be coming to terms with the fact that they need to stop trying to make WCW happen. The WCW title is being contested by two WWF wrestlers, and the WWF title is up for grabs in a triple threat that will definitely be won by a WWF talent. When it comes to late...

The boys watched Wrestlemania 38 and are so jacked up on nostalgia and joy that they had to get together to talk about it. Stone Cold Steve Austiin came back and did everything you wanted him to, Vince McMahon took the best worst stunner in the history of wrestling, and Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn ruled the weekend. Also apparently there were some title matches. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @S...

September 23, 2001. 12 days after the world changed forever, WWF was in the midst of an underwhelming storyline that even an Olympic hero winning the title 12 days after 9/11 couldn't resolve. Kurt Angle takes on Stone Cold Steve Austin in the main event, but not before a truly talented roster shows you what great wrestlers can do with bad booking. Also, KroniK is there for some reason. It's Unfor...

It's the return of the great one, and no, we aren't talking about possible GOAT Spike Dudley. The Rock has returned from his Scorpion King- related hiatus and faces Booker T for the WCW championship. Kurt Angle, American Hero, is trying to save WWF from Stone Cold Steve Austin's traitorous actions, but enemy of the podcast Nick Patrick has something to say about it. We also learn that the two D's...

After Vince bought WCW and performed his epic victory lap, things didn't go as planned for him. In real life, many of WCW's top stars did not come over to wresstle for him. In the storyline, his two spoiled brat children bought WCW and ECW out from under him, and are staging an invasion that threatens to make his victory in the wrestling wars of the 1990s hilariously short lived. In this episode,...

Legendary wrestler Scott Hall passed away today, and we found out just before recording this week's episode, so we decided to talk it out and share it. 

In 2001, Vince McMahon mercifully bought failing WCW, with many WCW talents hopping over to the Federation. This started an angle in which the newly-acquired talent were "invading" the hottest wrestling product in history. In part 1, we review the last WCW Monday Nitro ever. Ric Flair opens the show like a maniac, there are a few decent matches, and Vince takes an epic victory lap throughout. How...

Capping off our "The Best You Got" series, we discuss possibly the best wrestling PPV ever assembled. The granddaddy of the granddaddies of them all. Wrestlemania 17 was a showcase of one of the best rosters in the history of professional wrestling, and represented a moment when that roster got even stronger following WWF's acquisition of WCW. An insane TLC match and a father-son slobberknocker le...

Our WCW entry for the "Best You Got" series takes us to Spring Stampede 1994. Chicago welcomed World Championship Wrestling with open aarms, and who wouldn't? DDP, Steven Regal Cactus Jack, and a not-yet-Stone-Cold Steve Austin accompany a Bunkhouse match (which is apparently just a no DQ match in street clothes) on the undercard and it all leads to a classic matchup in the main event as Ric Flair...

On Monday, Andrew was innocently browsing Twitter when he stumbled upon a sight that he could not believe: Logan Paul was beating up Rey Mysterio. It wasn't even difficult. The Youtube star turned boxing hobbyist was manhandling the man who won the 2006 Royal Rumble from the 2 slot. Aggrieved, Andrew took to Twitter and put out a poll. Which was worse: David Arquette pinning Eric Bischoff to win t...

For our next quick series, we are watching Dusty's picks for each of the big three wrestling organizations' best PPVs. Extreme Championship Wrestling was an insane madhouse organization with a promotional maniac at the helm and a cult-like fanbase. At Heat Wave 1998, we saw some off their biggest stars put on a show that stands the test of time. RVD, Mike Awesome, and Taz beef up the undercard unt...

Fritz Von Erich and World Class Champioship Wrestling changed the wrestling world from a small, hot, metal building in Dallas Texas in the mid-to-late 1900s. Determined to build a wrestling dynasty, Fritz raised a group of sons in the business, convinced that he was building a stable of world champions. In many ways, their story was a fairy tale, until it turned into a nightmare. 

The 2022 Royal Rumble happened last week, and being the big time wrestling pundits that we are, we had to get together to discuss it. Was it as cool as Seth Rollins is trying to be or did it fall sadly to the ground like Kofi's feet? Join as we discuss. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SnarkMarksPod and subscribe to our YouTube channel!

Relax, guys. We aren't reviewing the disaster that was the 2022 Royal Rumble... until next week.  This week, we decided to go back to the first Royal Rumble PPV in 1989. It has everything from Bret Hart's patented "get beat up brutally for like 10 minutes" spot to the beginning of the end for the Mega Powers. In the big match, 30 superstars enter the ring in an every man for himself match for...

The Idell Wrestling Federation and Godwin Championship Wrestling Federation have had a few months of weekly TV shows since we last visited them , and it's time to reveal their second PPV installments. There's a little bit of everything, from shark cages to Double J Jeff Jarrett, making both PPVs well worth their through-the-roof prices. Which one would you attend? While this episode will be entert...

Over the past few decades, a handful of marquis pairs have defined tag team wrestling, and have set the standard to which all other teams are compared. In the 1990s, a mullet headed super athlete and his dog-faced brother brought real amateur wrestling credibility with them and became, at one point, the best tag team in the world. In this episode, the Snark Marks discuss the nuts and bolts of big...

In the 1992 Royal Rumble, Ric Flair made history but Bobby Heenan stole the show. The Snark Marks have been professing their love for "The Brain" since the first season, and Dusty came up with the brilliant idea to tackle what was perhaps his greatest performance. To make it even better, Andrew's brother Jacob was invited back to hang with us. Sit back, humanoids, and let us honor The Weasel.&nbsp...

After three weeks and 15 matches, the Snark Marks come up with their individual conclusions as to who they prefer between Bret "The Hitman" Hart and Shawn "The Heartbreak Kid" Michaels. First, though, Dusty reveals a phenomenal and appropriate Christmas present he received, and the boys talk about The Beatles, Andrew's cat, and Chael Sonnen for the first 29 minutes before getting to the topic at h...

Shawn Michaels is polarizing figure. In his professional life, he was a pretty boy with an ego who was difficult to be in a room with sometimes. He liked to act as if the world revolved around him, and was comfortable derailing the plans of a gigantic entertainment empire as his mood and desires changed with the wind. He also just so happened to be one of the most charismatic, talented, and influe...