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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

James 2:18: But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I think you should. I looked back on what the time was for me sometimes harshly. Unfortunately it is also tied in with my mom’s passing. But if the worst things to happen are things that made people smile it can’t all be bad.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yeah. A bit of the same for me. This happened in April. We came back in June. By October I had a very public yelling match threatening to quit. By December I was fired. Lots of contributing factors. But to say this wasn’t a catalyst for a lot of things would be mistaken.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Oh I know. We always had a good working relationship. And in the end I think we trusted each other to tell the best story we could. Others didn’t trust that and there’s a reason neither one of us are really around much anymore.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The entire idea of 2 champions who’d never been pinned for their titles down to the end of our biggest show was a great idea that was hard fought for by some and ultimately never happened due to COVID. It is a regret I’ll always have. Cause I think that final moment would have been big.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The call that changed so much. Some agreed. Some vehemently disagreed. I’ll stand by it forever.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Overly white wrestling fans not knowing who Travis Scott is makes me laugh. Go back to AEW you nerds. Go on. Get.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Few people wrestle their matches as unprofessionally as Charlotte. Just does all the little things to make it harder to work with her.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A hard cap? No. But maybe a soft cap. I also think if you’re doing a cap you have to give hometown teams some sort of Bird rights to go over the cap for stars and also get rid of arbitration. 3 years at a minimum then RFA. After 5 years - FA and teams get Bird rights to go over cap to sign player

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Jack Pollock is my best friend of over 20 years.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sadly for me it was @theonlymvyoung.bsky.social Amazing match. All time match in PGH history.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Need to give a big public thank you to @enjoywrestling.bsky.social for last night. It was a very special night for a lot of fans, but also for so many wrestlers. They welcomed in all of us with open arms as they knew what it meant to us to be there to support our friend Thank you for your kindness

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It really better. This last bit has felt forced and dragged out.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

As a fan of Toni Storm I have to say that the Toni/Mariah stuff has gotten to the same point Rhea/Liv got to. It’s time to move on and let other women wrestle on top. We get it.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I watched First Take for the first time in a very long time because Gilbert Arenas was on. And he is a good ambassador for the current game. The era of the ESPN talking head show is dying and the best place to get basketball information is now on the fan to go find.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My NBA media hot take is that everyone who truly loves the current game of basketball works for the league. There’s no national media that loves the current game. And when we do get someone who does love the game like JJ they get snatched up.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I am once again demanding higher tariffs on podcast equipment.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I was not as high on Josh Singh as others. Unsurprisingly I loved Graham Wellington. Quinn was high on you but others were not. I’d say you were a coin flip guy for most. Except Quinn. Shockingly I know. He was a fan.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Also a cool moment in time. I was on my way out of PWX feeling down. Quinn brought this to me as an idea to keep me around and have me involved backstage. You’re right that it inspired UpRyse as a concept. Which I still feel was special. My love of Futures and UpRyse lead me to 880 for sure.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This a tradition to rewatch this yearly with the BHS group. It truly is a highlight of our careers. It took me an entire day of nothing Jake to get this match. Finally he said yes and we booked it. It was the match that convinced me I could book and that I wanted to try.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here’s a Bluesky for you. Every day my Facebook is just a political war between T-Ranchula and Lord Zoltan. And I love every second of it. This is exclusive to Pittsburgh indie wrestling lore. Thank you and good night.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Old Phil finding out Dwayne is back just in time for Mania season

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yeah the match was insane. We all were also kind of miffed because everyone had to now follow it and they were just going ham out there. Lol. Like…oh man. What we had planned might not follow that now.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Fun story we had no idea who they were. They came with RSP and Quinn booked them that night. We all were confused. They had a banger of a match we all had to follow. Then they didnt get paid because they didn’t shake hands with the owners son and he refused to pay them.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I just got slapped in the face with the “Fort Knox” conspiracy and it took 5 seconds for it to be “Jews stole the gold and took it to Isreal”

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Once again here to remind everyone that EVERY conspiracy theory ends with being antisemitic. They aren’t fun little games.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

You should see his baseball hat his dog ate.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I see so many older white people on my socials saying “I don’t know who that Kendrick Lamar even is” How? How do you not? You don’t listen to rap…ok still. He’s the most influential and biggest voice in that genre right now. I know who the biggest star in country is. Beyonce.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I saw a lot of hot takes of people being like “People already knew all about Penta- but act like no one watches AEW.” Nah man. Lucha Underground was on Netflix. That’s where I got to know him. That’s where he was a star.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

As a TWolves fan it really hurt to watch KAT go. It sucked. It hurt. But we had Ant. I’m feel so bad for Mavs fans. I wish you the best.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just let Ricochet be Prince Puma.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If Tony Khan would have just bought and repackaged Lucha Underground and let them run it and book it- wrestling would have been perfect.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Watching the Grammy’s what I assume people think the NFL is like. Cutting to Taylor before, during and after every performance.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Taylor Swift pretending to love all the women winning awards after trying all year to fuck their album sales is gross.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Will Forte’s “whaaaat” from The Jon Bovi Opposite Band is a regular joke for me. Also his “we did it!”

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

You either get a dog that is fine with the vacuum or hates it. It’s pure luck of the draw.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I watched 44 Royal Rumbles in 3 weeks and finally compiled everything into a spreadsheet. If you want to know what the best Rumble of all time is- well it’s 2008 in MSG. It’s perfect. Hopefully someone changes that tomorrow.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thanks. It’s been a lot harder than I thought over eras etc. There’s no right answer except that 08 is the best Rumble. Lol. Side note: it’s better if you watch 07 and how it ends vs how 08 starts. Perfect storytelling. That leads into HBK vs Taker at the manias in an amazing way.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Yes. Except the Greatest Royal Rumble. Fuck that. Hopefully this works docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

Royal Rumbles

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Backlund stuff seemed very out of spite for Flair having the record. Lol. I’m much higher on 94 and 95 (though 95 moves way too fast) It’s real hard to compare them all in the end. I have last years men’s to watch left and that’s the last one.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I really disliked that rumble. From my notes: “No stories really. Wasted Taker early. Lack of stars. Insanely predictable. Better finish than 92. First main event spot at mania on the line. Lack of credible people at the end” I’m probably too hard on it putting it as low as I do as 3rd lowest

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Wild that me, someone who turned his back on the church and hasn’t gone to a mass in over 20 years, understands Catholicism better than the current Vice President who I. An only assume regularly goes. St Francis would be disappointed my man.

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

There is also a distinct reason the architect of the Tariff strategy of the 1890’s, McKinley, was followed by literally “The Progressive Era” of American politics with Teddy Roosevelt. They also shot McKinley. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Marcus Mann @marcusmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What’s wild to think about is that had The Ultimate Warrior not died when he did he surely would have ended up at the RNC with Hogan rambling nonsense.

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