AEW’s MVP brings the wrestling podcast to the BZZR space in a new partnership
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MVP has been the voice behind All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin since all three pro wrestlers joined the company in 2024, and now he’s taken his mic skills into a new social media space.
The “Marking Out with MVP & Dwayne Swayze” podcast and show will be released on BZZR every Friday before their YouTube episodes. BZZR is one of the social media that has recently entered the internet and promises to bring sports lovers together and make 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, Calif. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
MVP told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that he hopes joining BZZR will allow his podcast’s audience to grow.
“Combined cooperation. BZZR is a new platform where content creators can go online and share content, talk about sports – all sports, no noise. It’s a great opportunity for many people,” he said. “But for me, my YouTube podcast show, we’re just in our first year, partnering with BZZR will hopefully allow us both to grow our audience. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. It’s professional wrestling, which I’m an expert at. It’s an honor to be given the opportunity to be a wrestling platform in the arena.”
The MVP said he wanted the aesthetic of the show to match his wrestling gimmick – in a speakeasy with a VIP lounge and a special atmosphere.
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Wrestlers Chris Jericho and MVP compete on Aug. 24, 2009. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
He and Swayze have gained over 10,000 subscribers since launching the channel last year and the audience is only growing.
“It’s funny to show my age. When I started ‘Marking with MVP and Dwayne Swayze,’ my idea was to create a YouTube show,” he said. “I wanted to create a show and it’s visible because we’re shooting in a speakeasy in Houston with a bar and beauty. Visual beauty was very important to me because the brand of MVP is VIP, you know, a VIP lounge, luxurious, high end.
“When I started it, I had people come up and say, ‘Oh, congratulations on the podcast, congratulations on the podcast.’ And I said, I don’t have a podcast, I have a YouTube program. Just reading, in this day and age, everything is a podcast. And I said, wait a minute, the whole word ‘podcast’ comes from the iPod. It’s not a – Okay, okay, a podcast, for sure. But it’s a YouTube show and it’s meant to be watched. You can listen to it. It has a sound feature, of course. But in hindsight, I appreciate the fact that we’re doing a show, a weekly show. “
MVP praised BZZR for having the opportunity to empower content creators to be themselves.
“It’s a different platform because it allows content creators … it puts them out there in a way that they can be authentic and you don’t have the same corporate executives saying what to say and how to say it,” he told Fox News Digital. “Various creators at various levels can join the platform and 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.”
