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The adage “never meet your heroes” is a proverb used to prevent people from having high expectations of those they admire or idolize.
For professional wrestling podcaster Dwayne Swayze, the phrase couldn’t have been more wrong.
Swayze has teamed up with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) star MVP to create the “Marking out with MVP and Dwayne Swayze” podcast, aiming to provide wrestling fans with a way to listen to in-depth interviews with their favorite stars from across the wrestling spectrum.
AEW STAR MVP BRINGS PRO WRESTLING EXPERTISE AND AUTHENTICITY TO BZZR
MVP, left, and Dwayne Swayze’s podcast in partnership with BZZR. (Getty Images/Provided to PK Press Club Digital)
As a podcast partner with BZZR, Swayze shared with PK Press Club Digital the story of how he got involved with MVP in the first place. He said he watched MVP at WrestleMania 25 in a Money in the Bank Ladder Match and a few days later the professional wrestler was in his studio trying to record his own music for his entrance theme.
“All of a sudden, six months after being at WrestleMania 25, my favorite wrestler walks right in. I couldn’t believe it. And no one knew how much of a wrestling fan I was, but I refused to go to the studio on Monday or Friday for ‘Raw’ and, there was maybe even a Thursday back then, for ‘SmackDown’. I don’t work at all during those times,” he recalled. “So he came along, so we were able to build a relationship and the very first song he released, I was just in the studio sitting in the back watching my favorite wrestler and he’s rapping. He was asking me for advice every once in a while. And I don’t know him well enough to say anything because I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe you’re here.’ And he ends with this song – two verses. And he looks at me and says, ‘Hey, do you want to do the other verse?’ And I’m like, “Of course, of course I do.” »
“And since then we were in the studio and we were talking, I would always ask a wrestling related question since I’m a huge fan. Something like, ‘OK, at the 2008 Royal Rumble you’re wrestling Ric Flair, he’s on his retirement tour, you Mr. Kennedy. He’s eventually going to face Shawn Michaels and that will be the end of his career and when you’re at Madison Square Garden, it’s been reported that he has confidence issues, that he you were saying in the ring right before the bell rang? And he was telling me that and that’s what would happen for 15 years and in October 2024 I asked him a question and his answer was, ‘It should be a spectacle… But that’s how we got here.’
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MVP, Dwayne Swayze and Kayla Becker have all partnered with sports-focused social media platform BZZR. (BZZR)
Swayze said BZZR gives sports fans a break from the usual noise they would see on major social media platforms, adding that BZZR cuts out the noise and keeps the focus on sports.
“BZZR launched with, I think, 10,000 videos, 500 verified creators – Josh Pate (college football), Brett Kollmann (NFL), of course, Kayla Becker, it’s like she hosts everything, Kenny Beecham and the joy of basketball with the NBA,” he said. “Not only those creators, there’s also the podcasts. And among the 500-plus creators that are out there, you’re streaming sports across the landscape, with only premium sports across the landscape.
“No rage bait, you’re not going to find those little things. If you compare to Twitter/X, the people you follow on your timeline, that’s not all you see. You end up seeing things that you’re not necessarily signed up for and with BZZR, you’ll only see sports.”
Of course, professional wrestling will be the theme of “Marking Out.”
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WWE and AEW own the dominant conversation when it comes to professional wrestling – at least in North America, if not the world.
Swayze spoke to PK Press Club Digital about some of the good things he’s seen with both companies.
“Some of the good things I see… Well, apart from my ‘tribe leader’ (Roman Reigns), you have to admit, there is of course a big youth movement,” he said. “In WWE, I love seeing Bron Breakker, Je’Von Evans, Sol Ruca. AEW, ‘where the best wrestling’, of course, where the MVP is right now. I really like Kyle Fletcher, Megan Bayne is great, Kevin Knight. I love seeing the changes in how things were in the past and how they are now.
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“These guys have so much more pressure on them than the stars of yesterday. I compare it to Michael Jordan and LeBron James. They have to live in the age of social media and we as fans expect to see our star – we see them on TV, we see them on their social media, a dirt sheet could take them out, there are podcasts. There’s so much going on but they’re doing their thing. They’re still playing. They’re still entertaining us. They’re putting themselves out there. As a as a fan, I really appreciate it.”
