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MVP has been nan sound down All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin since each 3 pro wrestlers entered nan institution successful 2024, and now he’s taken his mic skills to a caller societal media platform.
"Marking Out pinch MVP & Dwayne Swayze" podcast and show will beryllium released on BZZR each Friday up of their episodes going connected YouTube. BZZR is 1 of nan newest societal media platforms to deed nan net vowing to merge sports fans and trim retired nan noise.
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Wrestlers Shelton Benjamin, left, and MVP be nan Los Angeles premiere of "Queen Of The Ring" astatine AMC The Grove 14 connected March 6, 2025, successful Los Angeles, Calif. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
MVP told Fox News Digital successful a caller question and reply that he was hopeful that joining BZZR will let nan assemblage for his podcast to grow.
"It’s a communal partnership. BZZR is simply a caller level wherever contented creators tin get online and stock content, talk astir sports – each sports, nary noise. It’s a awesome opportunity for a batch of people," he said. "But for me, my YouTube show that’s besides a podcast, we conscionable reached retired first year, nan business pinch BZZR will hopefully let some of america to turn audience. It’s a beneficial narration for some of us. It’s professional wrestling, which I’m a spot of an master on. It’s an grant to beryllium fixed nan opportunity to beryllium nan wrestling outlet connected nan platform."
MVP said he wanted nan aesthetics of nan show to beryllium akin to his wrestling gimmick – successful a speakeasy pinch a VIP lounge and an exclusive atmosphere.
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Wrestlers Chris Jericho and MVP compete connected Aug. 24, 2009. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
He and Swayze person garnered much than 10,000 subscribers since launching nan transmission a twelvemonth agone and nan assemblage is only growing.
"It’s kinda funny conscionable to show my age. When I first started ‘Marking retired pinch MVP and Dwayne Swayze,’ my thought was to create a YouTube show," he said. "I wanted to create a show and it’s ocular because we sprout astatine a speakeasy successful Houston pinch nan barroom and nan aesthetic. The ocular artistic was very important to maine because nan MVP marque is VIP, you know, VIP lounge, luxurious, precocious end.
"When I started it, I had group coming up saying, ‘Oh, congratulations connected nan podcast, congratulations connected nan podcast.’ And I said, I don’t person a podcast, I person a YouTube show. Only to learn, successful this time and age, everything is simply a podcast. And I said, hold a minute, nan full word ‘podcast’ comes from iPod. It’s not a – OK, each right, it’s a podcast, sure. But it’s a YouTube show and it’s meant to beryllium watched. You tin perceive to it. It has an audio aspect, of course. But visually, I bask nan truth that we’re putting connected a show, a play show."
MVP credited BZZR pinch having nan opportunity to springiness contented creators their expertise to beryllium their authentic selves.
"It’s a different level successful that it lets contented creators … it puts them retired location successful a measurement that they tin beryllium authentic and you don’t person nan aforesaid firm overlords dictating who says what and really they tin opportunity it," he told Fox News Digital. "Various creators astatine various levels tin subordinate nan level and lend and beryllium seen and beryllium heard.
MVP, Dwayne Swayze and Kayla Becker person each collaborated pinch nan sports-focused societal media level BZZR. (BZZR)
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Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
