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• The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 10.05.90

The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 10.05.90 A very abbreviated edit of the show this week for some reason. Well, that’ll give me lots of time for the extra gauntlet matches, I guess. Taped from Gainesville, GA Your hosts are Jim Ross & Paul E. Dangerously The Steiner Brothers v. The Ring Lords […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 12.08.96

The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 12.08.96 The death march to the end of 1996 Superstars continues! Part of me really just wants to post all these and burn them off so I can move onto other things, but also I’m glad that I did the whole run of Nov-Dec in one shot last […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for World Championship Wrestling – 12.07.85

The SmarK Rant for World Championship Wrestling – 12.07.85 Taped from Atlanta, GA Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & David Crockett Tony and David run down the Starrcade results…including new World champion Dusty Rhodes? Not so fast, partner. A rather distraught Tully Blanchard is our first guest, claiming that he never said “I Quit”. The […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Monday Nitro – 04.14.97

The SmarK Rant for WCW Monday Nitro – 04.14.97 Continuing on my quest to finish up the stragglers of 1997 that I haven’t reviewed yet. I’ve got this one and then the November episodes and we’re finished with that year. Live from Philly, a gigantic sellout of 16000 the night after a fairly notable indie […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for WWF in MSG – 02.23.92

The SmarK Rant for WWF MSG – 02.23.92 Well I couldn’t do that January show and then not follow up with this one. I think there’s only one left after this, with the infamous Herc match, and I’m assuming Richard Land is reading this and will magically make it appear for me. Also we all […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 04.09.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 04.09.25 Thanks to everyone who sent in supportive words over the past couple of days. I couldn’t really answer very many but it’s greatly appreciated. Oddly, reviewing Wrestlemania 4 helped a lot. Some people had the suggestion of redoing Clash 1, but we didn’t get TBS in Canada […]...2025

• The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.22.83

The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 01.22.83 Taped from Charlotte, NC Your hosts is Bob Caudle Sweet Brown Sugar & Mike Davis v. Masa Fuchi & Ken Timbs We’re joined with this one in progress, with Davis dodging elbows from Timbs and then making the tag to Brown Sugar. Sugar hits Fuchi with […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Revolution 2025 – 03.09.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Revolution – 03.09.25 Triller’s feed is being VERY fucky tonight so hopefully they get it together before I have to sit through 4 hours of crashes. (Update: I ended up watching on a one-hour delay and that straightened out the issues) Live from Los Angeles, CA Your hosts are Excalibur, […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for AEW Revolution 2025 – 03.09.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Revolution – 03.09.25 Triller’s feed is being VERY fucky tonight so hopefully they get it together before I have to sit through 4 hours of crashes. (Update: I ended up watching on a one-hour delay and that straightened out the issues) Live from Los Angeles, CA Your hosts are Excalibur, […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 09.11.24
The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 09.11.24 Live from FLEXINGTON, KY. OUTRUNNERS WIN OR WE RIOT! Your hosts are Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Taz Jon Moxley joins us backstage at All Out to start, explaining why the BCC fractured and took out Bryan Danielson, which is basically that Jon is the one true king […]...2024
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• The SmarK Rant for ECW Guilty as Charged 2000 – 01.09.00

The SmarK Rant for ECW Guilty As Charged 2000 – 01.09.00 Lots of demand to see a redo of this one and I’m still on vacation for a couple of days anyway. Live from Birmingham, AL, drawing 4700 and a 0.22 buyrate. Your hosts are Joey Styles & Cyrus, who has penned a greeting for […]...2023
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"The SmarK Rant for Saturday Night’s Main Event #28 (October 1990) Amazingly we go from the Vault dropping one of the worst SNMEs to one of the absolute best."

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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Collision – 12.23.23

The SmarK Rant for AEW Collision – 12.23.23 This is probably the last Collision I’ll do for a while, as FITE TV has jacked up the price of AEW Plus to $13 per month and that’s more than I want to pay. That being said, the PPV discount might still be worth it, so I […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 12.18.82
The SmarK Rant for Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling – 12.18.82 Daryl is having a rough time of it again, so let’s head back to the Carolinas to hopefully cheer him up a bit. Taped from Charlotte, NC Your host is Bob Caudle Sweet Brown Sugar joins Bob to start, with footage of a contract signing between […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for World Championship Wrestling – 12.07.85
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 11.03.96
The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 11.03.96 The sound for this one is HELLA messed up, and it has a “presented in the most complete form possible” warning as a result. Taped from Cincinnati, OH, on 10.22.96 Your hosts are Jim Ross & Mr. Perfect “Razor Ramon” & “Diesel” v. Aldo Montoya & Barry […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 01.06.97

The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 01.06.97 OK, so it turns out that my gap in the Monday Night reviews extends from this show until Thursday RAW Thursday, and I need to redo everything from January as a result. So here’s a brand new Christmas Day rant for the first RAW of […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Wrestlemania IV – 03.27.88

The SmarK Rant for WWF Wrestlemania IV – 03.27.88 Man, I’ve never actually done a modern rant on this show, with the last version coming sometime in 1998 from what I can tell. Given I just lost my mom to cancer on Monday, I just need some wrestling comfort food today, and this is pretty […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 09.28.90
The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 09.28.90 Last time, Scott Steiner managed to RUN THE GAUNTLET successfully despite some heavy competition. Can Bobby Eaton do the same this time? Tonight, Tracy Smothers! Saturday night, Ricky Morton! Sunday night…Sid. Well, I’m sure he’ll try really hard and that’s the important thing. Taped from Gainesville, […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF on PRISM – 01.14.89

The SmarK Rant for WWF Spectrum – 01.14.89 More from Richard Land’s awesome Fish & Chips collection. All the kids are talking about Philly this week it seems like. Taped from Philadelphia, PA Your host is Dick Graham, calling this thing solo. This might be rough. The ring announcer is future proto-ECW promoter Joel Goodhart, […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for ECW Hardcore TV – 01.10.95

The SmarK Rant for ECW Hardcore TV – 01.10.95 OK, picking this up again since all the kids are talking about Philly this week for whatever reason, although this time I’m just watching the normally-edited episodes on the WWE Network because the “re-edited” version with the music restored came off really badly. Plus I already […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Collision – 01.11.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Collision – 01.11.25 Well I’m back. On Saturday night, I was on the way to see Nosferatu and I got a call from my parents’ neighbor informing me that she was in the hospital with pneumonia, which wasn’t great because she’s already battling cancer, and I should probably fly out […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 04.10.24
The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 04.10.24 Live from Charleston, WV Your hosts are Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Taz Samoa Joe v. Dustin Rhodes This is of course non-title, since no one would buy a member of the Rhodes family beating a Samoan for a World title. Swerve attacks Joe before he can even […]...2024
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Halloween Havoc 1993

This is a show I do not even remember watching, but I did a rant way back in the day, and I know I ordered the show when it aired live, so I’ve seen it twice. But you could have fooled me. And we start with a bunch of kids going trick-or-treating in yet another […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 03.23.96
The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 03.23.96 Taped from Corpus Christi, TX Your hosts are Vince McMahon, Jim Ross & Mr. Perfect Goldust v. Alex Porteau Yes, it’s the momentous Superstars debut of THE PUG. But he’s not a pug yet. Barely even a puppy. Fun fact: My emergency backup dog, Libby, is a […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW World’s End 2024 – 12.28.24

The SmarK Rant for AEW World’s End 2024 – 12.28.24 Live from Orlando, FL Your hosts are Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Nigel McGuinness Continental Classic Semi-Finals: Will Ospreay v. Kyle Fletcher Fletcher has the look down but still needs a killer entrance theme to nail this thing down for good. Kyle charges him and they […]...2024
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• The SmarK Rant for Clash of the Champions XVI – 09.07.91

The SmarK Rant for Clash of the Champions XVI – 09.07.91 Continuing my long-term goal of redoing all the Clashes, and after the redo of Clash 14 a few weeks ago we skip ahead to Clash 17 in late 1991. Live from Atlanta, GA, drawing 2800 and a 3.7 rating. Also notable to me for […]...2024
• The SmarK Rant for WCW Spring Stampede 1994

Live from Chicago, IL Your hosts are Tony & Bobby. Diamond Dallas Page v. Johnny B. Badd. Ah, back in the days when DDP wasn’t having himself pushed to the main event and we didn’t have to listen to Kimberly talk. Page attacks, but gets rolled up for two. He bails and gets dragged back […]...2024
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Starrcade 1993

Live from Charlotte, NC, drawing 8000 for a legit sellout. Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Jesse Ventura Meanwhile, Vader shows up in the parking lot, already wearing his mask and gloves, with a nice Japanese steakhouse jacket to keep him warm. However, Ric Flair has not yet arrived, so Mean Gene shows up at […]...2024
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• The SmarK Rant for Saturday Night’s Main Event – 10.13.90

The SmarK Rant for Saturday Night’s Main Event #28 (October 1990) Amazingly we go from the Vault dropping one of the worst SNMEs to one of the absolute best. It’s OKTOBERFEST! Oh man, I kind of love this one. Taped from somewhere that isn’t Germany, sadly. I believe they were trying to get away from […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 93 – 01.24.93

The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 1993 – 01.24.93 Live from Sacramento, CA, doing a legit sellout of 16,000, but the lowest buyrate in WWF history to that point. Your hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & Bobby Heenan The Beverly Brothers v. The Steiner Brothers I suspect this another weird edit of the show because […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents Hottest Matches

The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents Hottest Matches Another one from the fabulous WWE Vault YouTube channel. Hosted by a very overheated Sean Mooney, released in late 1990. Rick Martel v. Tito Santana They fight over a wristlock to start and Martel puts him down with a dropkick, but Tito throws his own and […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 90 – 01.21.90

The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 90 – 01.21.90 Live from Orlando, FL, drawing 16,000 and a 2.0 buyrate. Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & and a Mickey Mouse-adorned Jesse Ventura, Tony’s last PPV with the company. I love that Vince lays out all the entrants in the Rumble match in the intro so […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWE Network Old School – MSG 09.26.77
The SmarK Rant for WWE Network Old School – 09.26.77 Well I guess we should finally review the show that Cody Rhodes has been going on about for months. Although these 70s WWWF shows are certainly not my favorite period to review. Taped from MSG Your host is Vincent Kennedy McMahon, who hopefully didn’t sexually […]...2023
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Power Hour – 01.26.91
The SmarK Rant for WCW Power Hour – 01.26.91 Your hosts are Jim Ross & Paul E. Dangerously, coming to you from somewhere likely too ashamed to reveal the location. The Minotaur v. Keith Hart Oh my stars and garters, I get to see STEVE DISALVO on a 1991 WCW show against a jobber named […]...2023
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