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A weekly internet wrestling podcast started by about a dozen or so members of the [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony Experiment]] forums to fill in the gap for a faltering schedule and a need for their opinions to be known, but not affiliated with [[Noah Antwiler|Spoony ]] in any way other than being fans of his work.
[http://darkmatch.blip.tv Darkmatch]{{Dead link}} features a revolving door of hosts each week that are rotated in groups of 4 people each, who spend a good hour or so recapping the weekly wrestling shows. Namely, Raw, Smackdown, TNA and sometimes lesser shows such as NXT and Tough Enough, and even untelevised/unaired shows. WWE and TNA Pay Per Views are also covered in separate episodes.
The first episode covered the 2011 Royal Rumble and featured [[The Spoony Experiment]] forum members Teefus, Ironbite, Revolverman and Matt the Paranoid Katt.
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As of their one-year anniversary reviewing the 2012 Royal Rumble (the year being measured in PPV events as opposed to days) their shows can also be seen hosted at [http://treproductions.wordpress.com/ TRE Productions].
A number of side projects and segments have been started by the hosts. These include:
* 'Headlocked' by Teefus, a Q&A session where Teefus answers questions as [[Acting for Two|different personas ]], such as a Smark, a TNA fan and a Lucha fan
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Several feuds between cast members and various alternate personalities exist.
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: Pretty much the entire basis of the show, though they do try to give credit where credit is due.
** No Leaf's lone defense of TNA is that if it were to go out of business, they wouldn't have anything to talk about anymore and the show would die.
* [[Acting for Two]]: Lars The TNA Mark played by Backlash. Also Teefus and Digi-Fox have played alteregos in their side projects as well.
** Digi-Fox has played the role of Matt Hardy in his latest My Dog Sam video.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Digi-Fox doing a Razor Ramon impression in his first episode of Wrestle Retro.
** The reading of The Iron Sheik's latest tweet every week qualifies. It could be seen as mocking him, but really, they do it out of love for him.
** Averted with Digi-Fox' Matt Hardy parody which is meant to overexaggerate how crazy Matt Hardy is.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Jingus pretty much every episode he's on, others have been known to delve in this trope as well.
** Teefus as well, when he played the TNA drinking game, taking a shot for every awkward promo in one episode, resulting in 17 (or 18, the number is disputed) shots of American Honey in 93 minutes. Drinking is now banned during the show.
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** '''"I'M IN THE DANJAH ZONE!"'''
*** This ends up being an extended [[Shout-Out]]. Not only is "the Danger Zone" borrowed from [[Top Gun]], it is then used by Archer, while also being a shout out to "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Teefus was the first to say it, which leads to No Leaf stealing it.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: This role can rotate throughout the cast.
* [[Catch Phrase]]:
** Lately, the hosts have begun ending the show with the phrase "Good night and good luck."
** "Oh we'll get to (insert something enraging here)!"
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*** 'Independent Thinking' has "High and Dry" by Def Leoppard and "Get Back" by the Beatles
*** Magpie's other show, 'Doctor Magpie and the Women', has the theme "Whatta Man" by Salt-N-Pepa
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|it's implied that Digi-Fox and Matt Hardy are the same person, or at least clones of some kind, or Matt Hardy has possessed Digi-Fox,}} [[Mind Screw|or any or all of the above.]]
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Backlash and Mr. War Machine are guilty of this, but it's not their fault; TNA makes them do it.
** No Leaf recently developed this on a new episode of "Faker Than Pro Wrestling" based around Twilight.
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