List of Segments

Smark Out Moment has a wide variety of segments that appear on both the website and Smack Talk podcasts. Sometimes, there is crossover of both. Other times, you can only find the segment on one of those two avenues.

# Active Current Segments

These segments are in the current rotation and can happen either on a regular basis or at random.

## **Awards**

Otherwise known as The Smarkies, the Best & Worst Awards, or the End of the Year Awards, the Smark Out Moment Awards caps off each year with a look back on everything that's happened in WWE over the past 12 months. Not only are the best things awarded praise, the worst things are ridiculed.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Battle of the Brands**

Which show was the better episode this week between Raw and SmackDown? WWE's two flagship programs are compared against each other to determine a winner every week.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Belt or Bury?**

Should this particular wrestler be given a championship title and pushed, or should they be taken down a peg, lose matches and possibly even be released from the company?

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Call the Spot on the Card**

You're given a list of wrestlers and you have to pick one to be in each category. Similar to a Bang/Marry/Kill type scenario, the ranks are dependent upon how many wrestlers are on the list. This includes:

* Hall of Fame
* *Main Event*
* *Upper Midcard*
* *Midcard*
* Lower Midcard
* *Jobber*
* *Released /* Split (split is used for tag teams as an alternative to released)
* Erased from History

Categories in italics are the standard five.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Champsgiving Tournament**

The annual autumn tournament which revolves around champions of some kind, such as determining the best champion to have ever held a particular title or comparing belt designs.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Cheap Pop and Cheap Heat**

A weekly post that examines one great thing and one awful thing that happened over the past few days in professional wrestling. This has been predominantly written by Ross K Foad over the years.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **WWE Claim to Fame**

If they were forced to retire right this moment, which WWE Superstars would have a case to be eligible for an induction in the WWE Hall of Fame?

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Creative License**

Fan fiction. You're given the freedom to concoct storylines, make up new characters, adjust feuds and book things to your heart's desires. So what do you want to do now that the pencil is in your hand? This segment allows for pitches and suggestions of what you would do if you were a writer or booker for whatever pro wrestling organization you're talking about in the post.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Current and Future Champions List**

A list of the current champions in AEW and WWE with predictions of who may take those titles and become the next wrestlers to hold the belt.

Check It Out: AEW Champions + WWE Champions

## **Darkcast**

Darkcasts are Patreon-exclusive episodes of the Smack Talk podcast which are more loose in structure, unedited and tend to include sillier topics and more risque discussion.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Doctor's Notes**

A legitimate doctor's perspective of professional wrestling injuries, medical reports and more.

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## **Drinking Game Rules**

Follow these rules for a brutal drinking game you can play while watching the WWE Royal Rumble or WWE Hall of Fame.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Fannounce Table**

The Smack Talk panel watches a particular pay-per-view event, a specific match or some video and provides a running audio commentary track you can listen to while watching, as well. Once you sync up the countdown and hit play, it's as if you're watching it alongside the hosts.

This segment was formerly referred to as "Smark Announce Table" in its early form.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Fantasy Booking**

If you were given creative control to make matches and write the feuds, what card lineup would you come up with for a particular event or how would you plan out the storyline you're tasked to write about?

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Fantasy League**

For several seasons, the Smack Talk crew picked a handful of wrestlers to make up a fantasy team. Each week, they would have updated standings and be given the option to make trades or substitutes.

This made a resurgence after SummerSlam 2020 for another season stretching toward WrestleMania 37.

## **Finisher vs Finisher**

Out of a list of wrestlers who perform the same maneuver, which one is the best at doing that move?

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Five Moves of Doom**

An examination of a wrestler's signature moveset, finishers and trademark maneuvers they tend to do in every single match.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Future Endeavors Forecast**

At the beginning of the year, predictions are made for who may be released, quit, forced to retire or exit the company in one way or another.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Going Over**

This is the most generalized discussion segment for Smack Talk. Episodes are classified as Going Over segments if they follow no other particular structure and are mostly just thoughts on an overall topic with no theme.

Going Over was formerly referred to as Busted Open, but the name was changed to avoid confusion with another outlet's branding.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Hall of Fame for Smark Out Moment**

This is a Hall of Fame dedicated to the world of Smark Out Moment itself, consisting of highlighting recurring jokes from the past and some of the most dedicated fans of the site.

* Main Event Inductee
* Midcard Inductee
* Tag Team Inductee
* Golden Oldie Inductee
* Impression Wing Inductee
* "Fuck That Guy" Club Honoree
* Fan Appreciation Wing Inductee

## **Hall of Lame**

Created by Callum Wiggins, this is a discussion of the opposite of a Hall of Fame wherein the worst candidates of a particular topic are "honored" to join the list.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Heel or Face?**

Is the wrestler in question better as a villainous heel or a heroic babyface?

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Hot Tags**

The weekly breakdown of the current events, rumors, news, gossip and everything else that has gone down over the past few days in the world of professional wrestling the Smack Talk panel feels like talking about that episode.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Interviews**

Interviews with members of the sports entertainment world.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Mailbag Q&A Inbox**

The mailbag is a spinoff of the Internet Wrestling Community Outreach concept of interacting with fans as much as possible. This is where viewers, readers and listeners can send in questions (whether or not they revolve around sports entertainment) for the Smack Talk panel to answer.

For years, this was done once per month. In 2020, it was adjusted to be a quarterly edition, instead, to make room for other features and gimmicks and to make these mailbag editions more special and try to focus on live interactions on YouTube.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Mount Rushmore**

Who would be on the Mount Rushmore of Pro Wrestling wherein you must pick only 4 representatives for whatever the themed topic is revolving around?

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **One More Match**

If a retired or deceased wrestler was able to return for just one more match, who would you choose to be their opponent and how would you book that scenario?

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **One to Watch**

At the beginning of each year, predictions are made for which wrestlers could break out, become major players or become the biggest focal points.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Paul Heyman's SmackDown!**

This special series spearheaded by Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice is a retrospective on the era where Paul Heyman was the head writer of SmackDown, looking back on June 2002 through February 2003.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Pay-Per-Viewpoint**

Predictions, spoilers, results coverage and post-show recap reviews of pay-per-views and special events.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Play the Game**

A series of wrestling-themed games ranging from word play, debates, trivia, and more, including these sub-segments:

* **2 R-Truths and a Lie** = Guess which one of three statements is not true about R-Truth. (A variation of this is 2 Truth Commissions and a Lie, revolving around the Truth Commission faction.)
* **Blind Tags** = A word association game wherein you're given a prompt and you must answer the question with the first thing that comes to your mind.
* **Smark's Choice** = A play off Sophie's Choice. You are given two wrestlers and you must pick one of them to be erased from history.
* **Superstar or Pornstar?** = Given a name, you must guess if that sounds more like it is a professional wrestler or an adult entertainment performer.
* **Tap Out** = You're tasked to answer as many of a particular topic as you can.
* **Wed, Bed or Dead?** = Between a list of three wrestlers, you must pick one to marry, one to sleep with and one to kill.
* **Who Am I?** = Given clues about a wrestler, you must guess who they are. (A variation of this is to guess the pay-per-view based on the card.)
* **Would You Rather?** = You must pick which of the two presented options given to you is the thing you would rather do.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Power Rankings**

The top wrestlers in WWE are ranked for their performances and value from the past week.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Remakeover / Repackage**

Pick a wrestler and explain why they should be changed up with a remake either as a makeover or a repackaging of their character.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Retain / Repackage / Release**

Given three wrestlers, you must pick one of them to stay exactly how they are, one of them to be given an overhaul of their character but stay in the company, and the other to be let go.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Royal Rumble Stats and Facts**

The Royal Rumble Stats page is a collection of information on the battle royal's history, including:

* A list of Royal Rumble winners by year.
* A list of the most eliminations anyone achieved in a single Royal Rumble for each year.
* Every Royal Rumble's Iron Man and Iron Woman times.
* A breakdown of heel and face dynamics for entry numbers.
* Statistics and trivia for topics such as who has won the most Royal Rumbles, what the luckiest entry number is for the amount of winners, most eliminations, longest and shortest times spent in a Royal Rumble match, and more.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Scouting Talent**

An examination of an indie wrestler's strengths and weaknesses as well as a discussion on which major company they would do best in.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Scramble**

Smack Talk episodes that have no actual agenda, theme or planned topics. The panel simply starts recording and lets the discussion take its own course.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Sexiest Superstars Tournament**

Who is the most attractive wrestler on the current roster? This tournament dates back to January 2012 and has become an annual summer tradition for Smark Out Moment with a bracket for the men's and women's divisions for WWE.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Sign Me Up**

Anyone who takes a picture of themselves holding up a "Smark Out Moment" sign at a pro wrestling show gets featured on the site as part of the Sign Me Up promotion.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Small Package**

Quick thoughts and bite-sized posts for topics that don't need bigger editorials, podcasts or major breakdowns.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Smark Madness Tournament**

The annual spring tournament parody of March Madness. Topics for these tournaments can be virtually anything.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Smarks Remarks**

Random opinion editorials and miscellaneous posts that don't fit into any themed gimmick segments are collectively referred to as Smarks Remarks.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Split Crowd**

Two opposing philosophies debate until a judge decides which opinion or argument wins.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Superstar Scores**

Judging a wrestler's full career based on a 0-100 point scale wherein there are 10 categories worth 10 points per section. These sections and subcategories are:

* **In the Ring Skills**
	+ **Athleticism** - Moveset; botch ratio, etc.
	+ **Psychology** - Storytelling abilities; selling injuries; interest level of matches, etc.
* **On the Mic Skills**
	+ **Charisma** - Promo quality; general verbal skills, etc.
	+ **Character** - Their gimmick; heel and face dynamics, etc.
* **Appearance**
	+ **Physique** - Their general look of their body.
	+ **Entrance** - Music, pyro and everything they do for their introduction when they come out.
* **Behavior**
	+ **Backstage Professionalism** - Locker room leaders who help others with their careers, or problematic coworkers who get into fights and look out only for themselves.
	+ **Public Relations** - Whether or not they provide a positive reflection on the company with talk shows, charities and media appearances or if they cause problems that project a bad image such as arrests, drug problems and so on.
* **Crowd Reaction**
	+ **Popularity** - How well liked they were as a performer. Their social media influence. Ability to draw money and ratings. Etc.
	+ **Credibility** - Win/loss ratio; if they were a champion and Hall of Famer or a loser.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Superstar Spotlight**

Putting a magnifying glass on a wrestler, speaking of their history, their current standings and their potential future.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Superstar Stock Market**

Examinations of a wrestler's value and the trajectory their career is heading down.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Tier Lists**

You are given a field of options to pick and rank on various tiers of preference and must place everything on one of the levels.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Time Machine Dream Team**

If you could pick wrestlers from any era and create teams based on various themes, which Superstars would make up those groups?

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Top Rope List**

Lists of various numbers such as Top 10, Top 25 and more, wherein the absolute focus is the top 3 that are awarded a bronze, silver and gold placement.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Triple Threat**

Three members of the Smark Out Moment writing team take on three topics each week with a centralized theme.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Trivia Quizzes**

Tony Mango takes on wrestling-themed trivia contests such as Sporcle quizzes.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Wednesday Night War**

A spin-off of Battle of the Brands, but instead of comparing Raw and SmackDown each week to determine the better the show, the fight is between WWE NXT and AEW Dynamite, which both air on Wednesday night in direct competition with each other.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Women's Wrestling Weekly**

A recap of women's wrestling from various promotions throughout the week.

This segment was formerly dubbed Divas Debrief, but when WWE stopped referring to its women's division as Divas, a name change was needed.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Wrestling History Lesson**

Looking back on a moment, match, event or era from wrestling's past and breaking down what led to that point, what happened and the fallout consequences and repercussions that followed.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Wrestling is 20/20**

With the benefit of hindsight, if you could go back and change history for a particular topic in professional wrestling's past, would you change anything? What would you do instead? Or do you think everything worked out as well as it could have and we're in the best timeline already?

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Wrestling with the Past**

Retrospectives looking back on a particular time in professional wrestling history, such as the careers of the latest inductees for the WWE Hall of Fame class.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **WWE Roster Hierarchy**

A depth chart of the current WWE roster ranked in order of how it appears Vince McMahon and the other managing forces of the company view each Superstar.

Check It Out: Website Link

# Archived Segments

These segments have been retired in one fashion or another. Either they've ceased to serve a purpose, been incorporated into other aspects/segments or have just been put on hold for the indefinite future. They may return at some point, though.

## **2001: A Wrestling Odyssey**

A special 13-episode podcast series spearheaded by Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice looking back on the year 2001 in professional wrestling.

Check It Out: Website Link + YouTube Playlist

## **Ask Him!**

Originally a segment that would revolve around stumping the fellow Smack Talk panelists, this wrestling trivia question of the week eventually became more about asking the listeners of the show and was retired with the Rest Hold.

Check It Out: Website Link

## **Caption This**

Original pay-per-view reviews on Smack Talk included joke captions for the images from each match.

## **Did You Know?**

A parody of the WWE Did You Know interstitials. This bumper would appear as a break of sorts for Smack Talk.

## **Events Predictions Contests**

These were contests wherein people could guess who would win all the matches of a pay-per-view card.

## **Outro Number**

As a means to give viewers something to entertain them while the end credits were on, as well as finish each episode with a laugh, the outro for each Smack Talk for several years was some sort of parody song or vocal performance of some kind. As time went on, these became sillier and more experimental beyond just taking a wrestler's theme and giving it funny lyrics.

## **Rest Hold**

A mid-way break for the episode or the week itself, the Rest Hold was a collection of smaller, more promotional segments. It was retired on episode #300 after repeated years of being voted one of the worst segments of the year for having very little worthwhile content.

Each Rest Hold consisted primarily of:

* Did You Know? joke of the week
* Smark My Words comment of the week
* A plug for The Mega Maniacs Facebook group
* A reminder to send in questions for the next edition of the mailbag
* Information on how to support Smark Out Moment via donations to the Patreon and more
* Promotion for the Redbubble and TeePublic merchandise shop catalogs
* A prompt for the Sign Me Up initiative
* A call to action for spreading the word about Smark Out Moment by sharing the site on social media
* A nod to Fanboys Anonymous
* Ask Him wrestling trivia question of the week

## **Smark My Words**

Favorite comment of the week from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or the website.

More segments are in the works and will debut in the future. Stay tuned!