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MVP has been the voice behind All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin since the three professional wrestlers joined the company in 2024, and now he’s taking his mic skills to a new social media platform.
The “Marking Out with MVP & Dwayne Swayze” podcast and show will air on BZZR every Friday before their episodes air on YouTube. BZZR is one of the newest social media platforms on the internet, aiming to unite sports fans and cut through the noise.
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Wrestlers Shelton Benjamin, left, and MVP attend the Los Angeles premiere of “Queen Of The Ring” at AMC The Grove 14 on March 6, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
MVP told PK Press Club Digital in a recent interview that he hopes joining BZZR will help his podcast’s audience grow.
“It’s a mutual partnership. BZZR is a new platform where content creators can connect and share content, talk about sports – all sports, without noise. It’s a great opportunity for a lot of people,” he said. “But for me, my YouTube show which is also a podcast, we just reached out in the first year, the partnership with BZZR will hopefully allow us to expand our audience.
MVP said he wanted the aesthetic of the show to be similar to his wrestling gimmick – in a speakeasy with a VIP lounge and an exclusive atmosphere.
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Wrestlers Chris Jericho and MVP faced each other on August 24, 2009. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
He and Swayze have amassed over 10,000 subscribers since launching the channel a year ago and the audience is only growing.
“It’s pretty funny just showing my age. When I started ‘Marking out with MVP and Dwayne Swayze,’ my idea was to create a show on YouTube,” he said. “I wanted to create a show and it’s visual because we’re filming in a speakeasy in Houston with the bar and the aesthetic. The visual aesthetic was very important to me because the MVP brand is VIP, you know, VIP lounge, luxurious, high end.
“When I first started, people came up to me and said, ‘Oh, congratulations on the podcast, congratulations on the podcast.’ And I said, I don’t have a podcast, I have a YouTube show. Just for learning, everything is a podcast these days. And I said, wait a minute, the whole term “podcast” comes from the iPod. It’s not a – OK, fine, it’s a podcast, of course. But it’s a YouTube show and it’s meant to be watched. You can listen to it. There is of course an audio aspect. But visually, I like the fact that we’re doing a show, a weekly show.”
MVP credited BZZR with giving content creators the ability to be their authentic selves.
“It’s a different platform in the sense that it allows content creators… it presents them in a way that they can be authentic and you don’t have the same corporate overlords dictating who says what and how they can say it,” he told PK Press Club Digital. “Diverse creators at different levels can join the platform, contribute and be seen and heard.
MVP, Dwayne Swayze and Kayla Becker have all partnered with sports-focused social media platform BZZR. (BZZR)
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“I think that’s the main difference.”
