Snark Marks, A Very Funny Podcast

WrestleWar 1989 answered the age-old question "can you have too much of a good thing?" Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat faced off for their third consecutive five-star match, but the matchup is beginning to feel stale. In fairness, it doesn't help that we watched them in consecutive weeks rather than waiting months like wrestling fans did. It was, however, the best part of a mostly flaccid wrestling...

In our second installment from our NWA/WCW 1989 series, we go down to the bayou for Clash of the Champions 6. After Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat's epic 5-star battle at Chi-Town Rumble, Flair gets his rematch in a two out of three falls match. There are only 4 matches on Peacock's version of this event, and aside from the opener which featured the Midnight Express facing off against the Samoan Sw...

Dusty has long wanted to introduce Andrew to the NWA's 1989 offerings, and we are finally taking the plunge. Things were in a transitional (and sometimes tumultuous) phase following a few changes to WCW including the firing of Dusty Rhodes as booker, but they still had Flair, and they still offered a brand of wrestling that appealed to the classic fan: the characters were believable, the wrestling...

Tales From The Territories is Vice's new wrestling series; it's essentially a spinoff from Dark Side of the Ring. In this episode, Jerry Jarrett, Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Lawler, Jimmy Hart, and Dutch Mantel sit at a table and trade stories from their time working the Memphis territory. The territory was ran by Jerry Jarrett and built around Jerry Lawler, and it is widely considered to be one of the mo...

Full disclosure: I (Andrew) write these descriptions. As much as I would like to make this entire description about the fact that I met worldwide entertainment icon Ice Cube, I understand that's unrealistic. The more important thing about this episode is that we watched Summerslam 1991. Randy Savage and Elizabeth tied the knot in the ring, and Jake The Snake and the Undertaker did the honors of tu...

On episode 58, we first ventured into the world of Roddy Piper acting when Andrew's brother Jacob joined us as we discussed They Live. During that episode, we discovered that Piper was in another movie during that time in his life, and this one might be a bit wacky. Hell Comes to Frogtown is the story of Sam Hell, who, after a devastating nuclear war, is tasked with repopulating the earth with hum...

Dusty is getting married this weekend (somehow), so to give him time to prepare we decided to take a week off from recording. In lieu of a new episode, we decided to put together all of our booking shows in one place. Are you a Godwin Championship Wrestling Federation fan, or do you ride with Idell Wrestling Federation? We will be back with a new episode next week!  Follow us on Twitter and I...

It's been a while since the boys visited some good old fashioned WCW trash. This week, Dusty stumbled upon an article from sportster.com that listed Uncensored 1995 as WCW's worst PPV ever. Andrew sincerely doubted the accuracy of that distinction because Uncensored '95 featured neither the nWo nor Vince Russo's booking. Was the article correct? First (0:00-21:00), we talk about Andrew meeting Koo...

Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes were classic wrestling adversaries. The son of a plumber who fought for the common man was always going to clash with the arrogant, self-centered rich man whose shoes cost more than your house. Dusty and Andrew watched 3 classic Rhodes-Flair matches (including Starrcades 1984 and 1985) and a bunch of promos in preparation for getting together and talking about this histo...

Dusty Rhodes may have been the perfect professional wrestler. He was a guy who the crowd could easily imagine standing next to them in the audience, but who could also make them believe in magic and the power of a dream. Rhodes is perhaps the favorite performer of the Snark Marks, and we spent some time discussing him and his appeal after watching two of the Peacock documentaries about him. Long l...

Before being the biggest mouth in wrestling podcasting, turns out Jim Cornette spent quite a bit of time as a wrestling manager. His tag team, the Midnight Express, seemed to enjoy success in every wrestling organization they were ever associated with. Andrew, being the second biggest mouth in wrestling podcasting, thought it was only fitting for Dusty, the most loveable man in wrestling podcastin...

With Commissioner Idell now somehow the champion of Godwin Championship Wrestling Federation, GCWF seems to have fallen on some mega hard times. Odd happenings are rampant though, and with a defense of the GCWF title booked for the next IWF PPV, almost anything can happen.  Follow us on Twitter @SnarkMarksPod and @SnarkMarkD!

Eric Bischoff epitomizes the American experience. If you're good looking and obsessed with sales for some reason, you will be fast tracked up the ladder and given the reigns to something expensive. WWE made a doc about him a few years ago, and we watched it and provided our thoughts on the man who is definitely not the most controversial man in sports entertainment. Follow us on Twitter @SnarkMark...

After Wrestlepocalypse: Hubris (Extreme Arrogance In The Eyes of Godwin), Commissioner Idell has seemingly been humbled. He's improved his treatment of his wrestlers, he's been booking more... conventionally, and his threat to the wrestling world seems to be thwarted. GCWF and their strategy of booking great matches and protecting the businesss seems to have proven to be the sustainable model. May...

Classic Survivor Series PPVs were polarizing. On one hand, since there must be seven pin falls per match, the matches are sooooooo looooooong. On the other hand, when else are you going to see Bret Hart wrestling under the captaincy of Hacksaw Jim Duggan? Our journey through 1989 was short and sweet, and the Survivor Series was a great way to round it off. It's as if we were caught dabbling in the...

The Mega Powers exploded, as you know, but that does not mean they were finished with each other. Fresh off his starring role opposite Tiny Lister in No Holds Barred, WWF decided it was a good idea to bring in Lister's character to help the Macho Man try to take down the Hulkster. Unfortunately for Tiny, Hulk Hogan is not going to lose to a part timer at Summerslam. He probably should have known t...

The Mega Powers have officially exploded and it's time to settle it in the ring. Hulk and Savage are eager to get their hands on each other with Miss Elizabeth in a neutral corner, but in true 1989 WWF fashion, we all have to wade through like 30 matches before we get to the issue at hand. Wrestlemania V was too long, but the stakes in the main event could not have been higher. Oh, also, there are...

The 1980s are coming to a close, and WWF is on top of the world. The roster is packed with big personality after big personality, and one guy who thinks he's a rooster for some reason. At the top of the heap are the Mega Powers, a tag team consisting of Champion "Macho Man" Randy Savage and the immortal Hulk Hogan. All good things come to an end, however, and this is part 1 of a series that examin...

The Snark Marks take every opportunity they can to get Andrew's brother Jacob on the show, and THEY LIVE was the perfect topic. It's got everything: glasses, two men fighting for too long in an alleyway, and Meg Foster being as bizarre as British Bulldog at the 1997 Royal Rumble. Roddy Piper turns in a great performance, and everybody dies!  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SnarkMarksPod....

Entrance music is one of the most important things about the presentation of modern professional wrestling. When you hear the bells, you know Undertaker is coming and when the glass shatters, someone's getting a mudhole stomped in them. In this episode, Andrew and Dusty have an 18-round draft of their favorite entrance music throughout wrestling history. Let us know who you think won. Follow us on...

Growing up, Dusty's love for wrestling wasn't the easiest to cultivate. He had to sustain himself with WWF home videos featuring house matches between wrestlers who he loved.. only they're unmotivated and mostly end in DQs. This particular one is supplemented with frequent vignettes of Bobby Heenan and Mean Gene at the golf course. Bobby and Gene tried, but there was no saving Rampage '91. I was g...

Whenever the ridiculousness of modern wrestling storylines is discussed, inevitably the Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero feud for the custody of Rey's son Dominik is cited. While the stipulation of the blow off match was ridiculous, this angle featured some fantastic work by two of the most legendary figures in WWE history. This feud happened a few months before Eddie's death and includes some promo...

Marty Jannetty was half of The Rockers from the mid-80s to the early 90s. He had a successful career, but he was far from the most successful member of the tag team. It's tough to be the most memorable member of a tag team that included Shawn Michaels. In this episode, Dusty and Andrew discuss and debate who (or what) is the Jannetty in various groups throughout popular culture. This is a show for...

On Sunday, May 29, AEW held one of their big quarterly PPVs. Double or Nothing was long but featured some twists and turns that may shape the promotion's storylines for quite some time, so the boys got together to discuss it in a bonus episode. Enjoy! 

We finish our shallow dive into the resurrection and ultimate destruction of Extreme Championship Wrestling with perhaps the worst wrestling PPV we have ever reviewed. WWE did what they were always going to do with ECW- turn it into a watered down shell of its former self filled with bad gimmicks and flaccid wrestling. WWECW was never going to work. How could it? There's a reason Gigi Allin never...