List of Segments | Smark Out Moment

Here is a list of some of the recurring segments that are a part of the Smark Out Moment brand and the Smack Talk podcast beyond the normal event coverage and other standard posts:

Archived or retired segments have a strikethrough, but may return in the future at some point.

2001: A WRESTLING ODYSSEY

A 13-episode series of special podcasts spearheaded by Callum Wiggins looking back on the world of professional wrestling from the year 2001 through each month.

ASK HIM! WRESTLING TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Every week on Smack Talk, there is a trivia question to try to stump the audience and test their knowledge of wrestling.

AWARDS (aka Smarkies, aka Best and Worst of WWE Awards)

Most awards like to honor the best. Smark Out Moment likes to do that but also acknowledge the worst. Every year, we look back and talk about the things we loved and hated from WWE.

BATTLE OF THE BRANDS

In a comparison of seven different factors, which primary television show was the better one of the week between Raw and SmackDown?

BELT OR BURY

Belt or Bury is where we discuss whether a particular wrestler’s career should go. Are they being overlooked and they should be given a push or are they already pushed too much and should be taken down a peg or even fired?

CALL THE SPOT ON THE CARD

Out of a list of five superstars, you must pick who you would place in the main event, upper midcard, midcard, jobber, and who you would release.

CAPTION THIS

Tell us what you think would be a funny caption for the various images that are posted.

CHAMPSGIVING TOURNAMENT

A tournament to determine the best champion of a particular title of all time.

CHEAP POP & CHEAP HEAT OF THE WEEK

What were the best and worst parts of the week in WWE?

CLAIM TO FAME

Which superstars on the current WWE roster would have a case to be inducted into the Hall of Fame if they were to retire today?

CREATIVE LICENSE

You're given creative control, but you have to apply creative thinking. What would you do if you had the ability to write storylines, redo certain angles, pitch ideas for characters and more?

CURRENT & FUTURE CHAMPIONS (WWE LIST | AEW LIST)

Who are the current WWE champions and who are my predictions for the person to dethrone them and take their title away?

DARKCAST

Formerly known as Dark Match extras, these podcasts are now Darkcasts and are Patreon-exclusive editions of the Smack Talk show.

DID YOU KNOW PARODY

Parodying the "Did You Know?" advertisements that WWE runs on their television shows.

DOCTOR'S NOTES

A legitimate doctor helps explain injuries, examine medical reports and more discussion on the things professional wrestlers deal with.

DRINKING GAME RULES

Rules for a drinking game to play along with during a particular event of some kind.

EVENT PREDICTIONS CONTESTS

Try your best guesses at who will win each pay-per-view event!

FANNOUNCE TABLE

Formerly known as "Smark Announce Table", the Smack Talk crew watches a pay-per-view or a specific match and provides a running audio commentary track you can listen to while synced up to the same broadcast.

FANTASY BOOKING

What would you do if you were given the keys to WWE Creative?

FANTASY LEAGUE

A fantasy league of WWE superstars between the hosts of the Smack Talk show.

FINISHER VS FINISHER

Which of the following people perform and utilize a particular move better than the rest?

FIVE MOVES OF DOOM

Examining a wrestler's five primary signature moves and breaking down what they mean to that person.

FUTURE ENDEAVORS FORECAST

Predicting which wrestlers and other staff from WWE will be released, quit, or exit the company in some fashion for the year.

GOING OVER

This is a generalized discussion forum for the Smack Talk podcast where we basically ditch the gimmick organization and just sit back and give our thoughts about some overall topic. Formerly also referred to as Busted Open or Busting Open.

HALL OF FAME FOR SMARK OUT MOMENT

A Hall of Fame for our recurring jokes and other things associated with the website.

HALL OF LAME

The opposite of a Hall of Fame wherein the worst candidates are selected.

HEAT OF THE MOMENT TOURNAMENT

A replacement for the Sexiest Superstars Tournament as the summer bracket (hence the heat theme).

HEEL OR FACE

Has this wrestler performed his/her best when their gimmick calls for being a heel or as a babyface? Which one do you prefer?

HOT TAGS

Has this wrestler performed his/her best when their gimmick calls for being a heel or as a babyface? Which one do you prefer?

INTERVIEWS

Members of the professional wrestling world interviewed by Anthony Mango.

MAILBAG INBOX Q&A

If you want to know more about us, send in your questions and we'll answer them!

MISSED THE SMARK

Whether it is infamously bad or amazing, for some reason, we haven't actually checked it out. Well, that stops now!

MOCK DRAFT

Given a set group of wrestlers, the Smack Talk panelists pick their rosters and try to form the best overall lineup of talent. Often, these are followed by episodes of Fantasy Booking the best pay-per-view cards we can come up with using the roster we picked.

MOUNT RUSHMORE

Various subjects where you must pick 4 and only 4 representatives of a particular topic, such as Best Tag Teams, Best Managers, etc.

ONE MORE MATCH

Who would be the one single choice you would pick for the opponent of a particular deceased or retired wrestler if they were able to put on one more match?

ONE TO WATCH

At the beginning of the year, we discuss which people are going to be big players in the upcoming 12 months.

OUTRO PARODY

A silly song or vocal performance of some sort that would accompany the end of an episode of Smack Talk.

PAUL HEYMAN'S SMACKDOWN!

Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice retrospective on the era where Paul Heyman was running SmackDown as its head writer from June 2002 through February 2003.

PAY-PER-VIEWPOINT

This includes reviews, coverage of results, and predictions for pay-per-view events.

PLAY THE GAME

A series of wrestling-themed games including 2 R-Truths and a Lie, Blind Tags, Mix & Match-Up, Smark's Choice, Superstar or Pornstar, Tap Out, Wed/Bed/Dead, Who Am I, and Would You Rather. We've also had an audio edition (exclusive to Patreon and the audio-only feeds, rather than YouTube) with segments like Guess the Theme. An August 2023 edition introduced new Callum-created games of "Test, Test, This is a Test", "Tell Me You Didn't Just Sing That", "Heel or Face?", "The Missing Link", "Cagematch Comments" and "Over the Limit" for a special Darkcast (#52).

POWER RANKING

A subsidiary of the Hierarchy, ranking the top people in WWE in a kayfabe sense this week.

REMAKEOVER/REPACKAGE

How would you change a superstar and give him a new gimmick and character?

REST HOLD

The commercial break section of the Smack Talk podcast that would include promotional material and other various segment.

RETAIN, REPACKAGE, RELEASE

A group of three superstars are ranked where one must be kept exactly the way they are, one of them must be changed in some fashion with a new character, and the other one must be let go from WWE entirely.

SCOUTING TALENT

Putting the prospects of wrestling's future under a microscope and figuring out if they have what it takes to be a star or a failure.

SCRAMBLE

Members of the podcast panel simply talk about whatever comes to their mind, with no set topics prepared in advance.

SEXIEST SUPERSTARS TOURNAMENT

Who are the most attractive men and women in WWE's current rosters? The Sexiest Superstars Tournament pits them all against each other and you get to vote on who you think is the hottest!

SIGN ME UP

Any time you make a sign promoting Smark Out Moment and hold it up at a wrestling event, you will get a shout out on the website.

SMALL PACKAGE

Smaller posts for quick thoughts.

SMARK MADNESS TOURNAMENT

The wrestling equivalent of March Madness, where a new tournament topic is created every year to pick the best of a particular category in professional wrestling.

SMARK MY WORDS

My favorite comment of the week left by the fans either on the YouTube channel, Facebook, Twitter, or the website.

SMARKING OUT

Tony Mango's editorial perspectives which are not under any gimmick structure, but rather just straight-up points of view talk.

SMARKS REMARKS

This label is used for any random opinion editorial that doesn't fit into one of the other gimmick segments.

SPLIT CROWD

Two opposing philosophies meet at a head and must argue it out until one side comes out the victor and the other side submits to defeat.

STATISTICS, RECORDS, TRIVIA & HISTORY

Examining the records and statistics brought about by certain events, including Royal Rumble, Money in the Bank and Elimination Chamber.

SUPERSTAR SCORES

Breaking down the different aspects of a Superstar's job performance. A wrestler can earn up to 10 points in each of the 10 skill level fields that we're rating them in. These fields are broken down into 5 groups, being In the Ring Skills, On the Mic Skills, Appearance, Backstage, and Crowd Reaction.

SUPERSTAR SHOWDOWN

This was a means to pit two wrestlers against each other and compare which one was better in the same sort of categories as Superstar Scores. However, it was deemed ultimately redundant (as you could just compare their scores) and when WWE made the Super ShowDown event, it felt even less relevant, so it was archived after just one edition.

SUPERSTAR SPOTLIGHT

Putting a magnifying glass on a particular wrestler and speaking of their history, their future potential and anything else noteworthy.

SUPERSTAR STOCK MARKET

Evaluating the value of a particular wrestler and the trajectory their career is heading in.

TIER LISTS

Standard tier lists where a group of subjects are ranked from top to bottom based purely on preference and favoritism.

TIME MACHINE DREAM TEAM

If you could pick wrestlers from any era, who would you team up on different Survivor Series themed groups?

TOP ROPE LISTS

Top 10 and Top 5 lists of different things in the wrestling world. Think of the bottom rope as the bronze medal, the middle rope as the silver medal, and the top rope as the gold medal. Normal lists can be found here.

TOURNAMENTS

Miscellaneous other tournaments can be found by browsing through this tag. Bracket-style tournaments of different kinds, including Champsgiving, Sexiest Superstars and Smark Madness.

TRIPLE THREAT

Every week, three members of the Smark Out Moment writing team answer three questions revolving around a particular topic.

TRIVIA QUIZZES

Tony Mango takes on a wrestling-themed Sporcle trivia quiz.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAR

A spin-off of Battle of the Brands comparing NXT and AEW Dynamite every Wednesday night to determine which show was better that week.

WHAT IF?

What if the history of professional wrestling went differently? This segment theorizes the possible repercussions, consequences and fallout of a moment of pro wrestling history had something else happened instead of what actually went down.

WOMEN'S WRESTLING WEEKLY

Formerly known as Divas Debrief, this recaps all of women's wrestling throughout the week not just on WWE, but Impact Wrestling, Lucha Underground and elsewhere, if possible.

WRESTLING HISTORY LESSON

A subsidiary of Wrestling with the Past where we take a look back on something in wrestling's history and fills you in on what happened and what consequences followed it.

WRESTLING IS 20/20

Starting in the year 2020, Wrestling is 20/20 takes a look at something from the past in sports entertainment and judges it in hindsight. Knowing what we know now, were the right decisions made, or should other things have happened instead?

WRESTLING WITH THE PAST

Retrospectives about the eras of wrestling that have built the groundwork for what we’re currently enjoying or hating today.

WWE DEPTH CHART | WWE ROSTER HIERARCHY

This is my attempt to analyze where each wrestler stands in the company in terms of importance, such as if they’re booked consistently as a top talent in the main event or if they seem to only be a jobber. When a wrestler moves up or down the ladder in the company, it shows.

+ so many more segments in the works to come. There are always new ones on the horizon!

If you have any suggestions of new segments you'd like to see, or ways you think these segments can improve, always feel free to reach out in some fashion!

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