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MVP has been the voice behind All Elite Wrestling (AEW) stars Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin since all three professional wrestlers entered the company in 2024, and now he’s taken his mic skills to a new social media platform.
The “Marking Out with MVP & Dwayne Swayze” podcast and show will be released on BZZR every Friday before their episodes go on YouTube. BZZR is one of the newest social media platforms to hit the internet, promising 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 Pakinomist Digital in a recent interview that he hoped joining BZZR will allow the audience for his podcast to grow.
“It’s a mutual partnership. BZZR is a new platform where content creators can come online and share content, talk about sports – all sports, no 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’ve just hit the first year, the partnership with BZZR will hopefully allow both of us to grow our audience. It’s a beneficial relationship for both of us. It’s professional wrestling that I’m a bit of an expert on. It’s an honor to have the opportunity to be a wrestling outlet on the platform.”
MVP said he wanted the show’s aesthetic to be similar to his wrestling gimmick — in a speakeasy with a VIP lounge and an upscale atmosphere.
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Wrestlers Chris Jericho and MVP compete on August 24, 2009. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
He and Swayze have gained more than 10,000 subscribers since launching the channel a year ago, and the audience is only growing.
“It’s kind of fun just showing my age. When I first started ‘Mark with MVP and Dwayne Swayze,’ my idea was to create a YouTube show,” he said. “I wanted to create a show and it’s visual because we’re shooting at 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 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 show. Just to learn, in this day and age, everything is a podcast. And I said, wait a minute, the whole term ‘podcast’ comes from the iPod. It’s not a—OK, okay, 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, a sound aspect. But visually, I enjoy 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 because it lets content creators … it puts them out there 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 Pakinomist Digital. “Different creators at different 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 primary difference.”
