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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 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 launch on BZZR every Friday before its episodes are uploaded to YouTube. BZZR is one of the newest social media platforms to hit the internet and promises 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 Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview that he was hopeful that joining BZZR would allow his podcast audience to 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 is also a podcast, we just hit the first year, and we hope that the partnership with BZZR will allow us both to grow our audience. It’s a win-win relationship. It’s professional wrestling, which I’m a bit of an expert in. It’s an honor to have the opportunity to be the wrestling outlet on the platform.”
MVP said he wanted the aesthetic of the show to be similar to his wrestling gimmick: in a speakeasy with a VIP room and an exclusive 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 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 have it be visual because we filmed 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 started it, I had people coming up and saying, ‘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, nowadays, everything is a podcast. And I said, wait a minute, the whole term “podcast” comes from the iPod. It’s not a… Okay, okay, it’s a podcast, sure. But it’s a YouTube show and it’s meant to be watched. You can listen to it. It has an audio aspect, of course. But visually I enjoy the fact that we’re putting on a show, a weekly show.”
MVP credited BZZR for having the opportunity to give content creators the ability to be themselves.
“It’s a different platform in the sense that it allows content creators to… present them in a way that they can be authentic and you don’t have the same corporate overlords dictating who says what and how to say it,” he told Pak Gazette Digital. “Various creators of different levels can join the platform and contribute, be seen and heard.
MVP, Dwayne Swayze and Kayla Becker have teamed up with sports-focused social media platform BZZR. (BZZR)
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“I think that’s the main difference.”
