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• The SmarK Rant for WWF WrestleMania XI

Live from Hartford, CT Your hosts are Vinnie Mac and Jerry Lawler Sure, this is one of the lesser WrestleManias, but of course the untimely death of Bam Bam Bigelow made it a natural tribute to him. The Allied Powers (Lex Luger & British Bulldog) v. The Blu Twins The Blu Twins are of course […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event X

Taped from Detroit, MI Your hosts are Vince McMahon & Jesse Ventura Hogan’s pre-show promo is epic stuff. “YOU BROKE THE RULES. NOW THERE ARE NO RULES!” Also Andre is 7’5” and 500 pounds. I really wish they’d bring those back because it was such a great and easy hook to have guys like Hulk […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Slamboree 1995

Live from Leningrad, Florida. Your hosts are Eric Bischoff & Bobby Heenan. Tony is off getting his neck surgery at this point (or as Eric might call it, back-leg-front-neck surgery) so we get the dulcet tones of Mr. Bischoff instead. Neck surgery apparently runs in the WCW announce crew, as Bobby was forced to go […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Double or Nothing 2025 – 05.25.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Double or Nothing – 05.25.25 Live from Phoenix, AZ Your hosts are Excalibur, Tony Schiavone & Taz Owen Hart tournament final: Mercedes Mone v. Jamie Hayter They fight for a takedown to start and that’s a stalemate, but Hayter puts her down with a big boot for two. Mone gets […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 1995

Live from Tampa, FL. Your hosts are Mr. McMahon & The King Welcome to the great downward slide of the WWF, as this is the first of many financially disasterous PPVs featuring Kevin Nash as World champion and a cast of characters that no one gave a crap about. Intercontinental Title: Razor Ramon v. Jeff […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event IX

Taped from Hartford, CT, on 12.14.86 and drawing 10,000 and a huge 10.6 rating. Although Vince makes sure to call it “20,000” people during the show, because that’s close enough. Kind of blows my mind that they were taping this stuff a month in advance and there was no internet to provide spoilers. Your hosts […]...2025

• The SmarK Rant for WCW Slamboree 1995
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• The SmarK Rant for WCW Clash of the Champions XXIII

Live from Norfolk, VA. Original airdate: June 17 1993, according to the PWI Almanac. Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Jesse Ventura. Ron Simmons v. Dick Slater This was supposed to be Paul Orndorff defending the TV title against Simmons, but an injury changed it to this match. Ron’s theme music, “Don’t Step To Ron”, […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for NWA Great American Bash (Greensboro) 1986

Taped from Greensboro, NC. “Mr. Electricity” Steve Regal v. Sam Houston Just to confirm that we’re in the southern states, someone’s got the stars & bars draped over the railing in the front row. Regal slugs away in the corner to start, but Houston elbows him down for two. Sam works the headlock on the […]...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 NWA Power Hour – 11.03.90

The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 11.03.90 REVIEWING UPDATE: I got a whole shitload of stuff done and ready for later posting during my vacation, including the remainder of 1992 Superstars up to April 18, plus more episodes of this show, plus a couple of episodes of Dynamite that I missed in 2024, […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 02.15.92

The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 02.15.92 Well my vacation is officially over and unfortunately I have to take responsibility for Sabu, I guess. He got in there at the wire. Taped from Amarillo, TX, on 01.28.92. Most amazing tidbit from this taping is that Billy Jack Haynes asked Pat Patterson if he could […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 05.07.25
The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 05.07.25 I missed last week due to the Vegas trip and honestly didn’t even really check results, so hopefully I can keep up this week. Still on vacation, and apparently about halfway through the original Super Mario RPG on SNES, which is a BANGER of a game by […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for WWE Monday Night RAW – 05.20.02

The SmarK Rant for WWE Monday Night RAW – 05.20.02 So as mentioned yesterday, I wanted to do the missing 2002 RAW episodes, which I was unable to review back in 2002 due to being in Las Vegas on vacation that week. And since I just got back from Vegas this week, here in 2025, […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWE Wrestlemania 41 – 04.19.25 (Night 1)

The SmarK Rant for WWE Wrestlemania 41 – 04.19.25 (Night 1) HHH joins us to start, hopefully not putting the audience to sleep with a 90 minute speech to open the show. Live from Las Vegas, NV. I’m actually gonna be there next week because I really need a vacation and I haven’t been there […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWE Wrestlemania 41 – 04.19.25 (Night 1)

The SmarK Rant for WWE Wrestlemania 41 – 04.19.25 (Night 1) HHH joins us to start, hopefully not putting the audience to sleep with a 90 minute speech to open the show. Live from Las Vegas, NV. I’m actually gonna be there next week because I really need a vacation and I haven’t been there […]...2025
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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 WWF The Main Event V

This is the last of the Main Event primetime specials, and one which I’ve never even seen before. NBC was basically burning off their contractual obligations at this point because the product was ice cold and ratings were falling fast. Taped from somewhere never mentioned. Turns out it was Macon, GA. Your hosts are Vince […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 05.21.25

The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 05.21.25 Live from Albuquerque, NM Your hosts are Excalibur, Taz & Ian Riccaboni Tony Schiavone brings out Hangman Page and Will Ospreay to start, and Will offers a beer of peace and petitions Tony Khan to be the main event on Sunday. Because the winner gets to main […]...2025
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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 NWA Power Hour – 11.10.90

The SmarK Rant for NWA Power Hour – 11.10.90 Taped from Anderson, SC, on 10.29.90 as we finally get an actual Power Hour taping for once! And RUNNING THE GAUNTLET returns as a result! On this episode, Steve Armstrong is the runner and Stan Lane is the blocker. Yeah he’s a blocker all right. Your […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for AEW Dynamite – 05.07.25
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• 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 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 WCW Uncensored 1995

Live from Tupelo, Misssisiiippiiisssssiiippipiipi Your hosts are Tony & Bobby. Dustin Rhodes v. Blacktop Bully. Oh yeah, this is a KING OF THE ROAD match, which means that rather than take place in the ring, the match occurs in the back of a moving truck. Yes, kids, someone actually got money to think of this […]...2025
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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 NWA Power Hour – 11.10.90
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• The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents Rowdy Roddy Piper

The SmarK Rant for Coliseum Video presents Rowdy Roddy Piper’s Greatest Hits! This was a big one hanging over my Coliseum Video redo series that I was gonna have to get to someday, along with Inside the Steel Cage. But tonight, the Hot Rod. Released in 1986, ironically a little bit before his return and […]...2025
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• The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 02.08.92
The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 02.08.92 These are proving really popular and I’m really enjoying them, so let’s hit it again! The cutoff point for these is 04.18, by the way, because that’s where they started on the Network and I’m trying to finish out the year completely. And yeah, I’m doing another […]...2025
• 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

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• The SmarK Rant for WWF The Main Event IV

So this one was of course originally taped as a Saturday Night’s Main Event, complete with the Rockers winning the tag team titles from the Hart Foundation, but due to schedule changes from NBC it ended up edited down to an hour and moved to a prime time slot instead, where it DIED. In fact […]...2025
• The SmarK Rant for WWF The Main Event I

“Three years is a very long time.” – Andre the Giant, on Piper’s Pit prior to Wrestlemania III. Live from Indianapolis, IN. Your hosts are Vince & Jesse. Hogan training video starts us off. He’s pumped, brother! Intercontinental title: The Honky Tonk Man v. Randy Savage. There’s a big ugly backstage political story behind this […]...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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