30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XIII (1997)
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 4 August 2015
⏱️ 293 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro dissect what makes the match the best, the precise moments where Austin turns the corner into a beyond-the-pale babyface primed to revolutionize the business, and the rich back story to how Hart crafted the match and a heel turn that was arguably the Hitman’s finest career work.
This week’s TLF installment also includes:
- The dark overtones of the show and its messaging, hints of the Attitude that was on the horizon
- Why this was merely the sixth most-bought wrestling PPV of 1997
- How the legendary blade job in Austin/Hart went down, and why Vince McMahon apologized for it
- JR exclaims about sausages and BLTs as the Godwins go to work in the opener
- The Wrestlemania debut of The Rock, and why it was less than pretty
- Fears for Marlena’s health after Chyna grabs hold
- The entrance to end all Mania entrances: the glass shatters
- The greatest chair shot in WWF history?
- The underrated Nation of Domination entrance theme
- Spirited debate on whether HBK on commentary added or detracted from the head-scratching Undertaker v. Sid main event.
Plus, Wrestling Observer boss Dave Meltzer returns to detail how the magic of Austin and Hart was the results of a series of happy accidents, and detailed thoughts on the Montreal screw job that capped a trying 1997 for the WWF. It’s a can’t miss discussion on a can’t miss Mania as The Lapsed Fan continues to soldier through 30 years. Download now.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrow. |
| 0:07.0 | It's still rude to be, damn it! |
| 0:10.0 | The Lapsed Fans. |
| 0:11.0 | In all my years in professional wrestling, I've never seen anything like it. |
| 0:15.0 | Oh my God! |
| 0:17.0 | Drop kick in a beauty! |
| 0:18.0 | The God! |
| 0:20.0 | The God! |
| 0:21.0 | Let's kill it! Well, it's the last fan man, |
| 0:22.5 | number one in the ring, forget about the star, |
| 0:25.0 | we the real king of swing. |
| 0:26.0 | When the bell goes hang, and a kick like me, |
| 0:29.0 | thrown in the corner |
| 0:30.0 | is a splash like sting. |
| 0:32.0 | Even Jerry King, they take off off the crown not in his head like |
| 0:35.3 | a steel low brown we can get low down but we go even higher flip you on your head |
| 0:40.2 | because you know cool driving you be spitting more now if the dragon spits fire. |
| 0:44.0 | Leave you more shock than when edge retires. |
| 0:47.0 | Dropping more truth than the kind of sniper. |
| 0:49.0 | Bless you with a coconut, |
| 0:51.0 | Roddy Piper, |
| 0:52.0 | Jack and J P, be like jy d, drop the cupcakes are guoting, |
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