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The Lapsed Fan

30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XIX (2003)

The Lapsed Fan

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 350 minutes

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Summary

The Lapsed Fan’s 30-week WrestleMania journey reaches stop No. 19 this week, as the WWE invades Safeco Field in Seattle for a show full of forks in the road for a host of key performers, including Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, and Brock Lesnar.

Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro go deep on a show remembered for its behind-the-scenes drama as much as its in-ring drama, which was considerable. Get Lapsed on the following:

- The worm turns on Triple H, as he builds up Booker T as a proud challenger who must stand up for himself in the face of implied racism … and then pins him clean, and hard

- Lesnar’s ill-fated leap, and why he just had to hit the F5 afterwards

- Austin’s final match, and why his paranoia, pain, and panic nearly kept him from getting into the ring

- Limp Bizkit, and the moment Fred Durst has to ask the crowd, “Are you awake yet?”

- The first “dual-brand” Wrestlemania, and other distinctions without a difference

- Mysterio’s WM debut

- Shawn Michaels’ WM return

- The best version of Rock’s entrance theme

- Hogan v. Vince, a storyline that evoked Vince’s steroid trial, how it miscast Hogan’s actual testimony

- Vince peeks over the apron

All that and so much more, including excerpts from a recent chat with Jim Ross about being side-by-side with Austin during his meltdown and Dave Meltzer on what lingers from this show. The 30-week freight train keeps on rolling!

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrows

0:07.0

It's still real 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 Almighty!

0:20.0

Let's kill!

0:21.0

Well, it's the last fan man,

0:22.5

number one in the ring, forget about the start,

0:25.0

we the real king of swing.

0:26.4

When the bell goes hang, and a kick like me.

0:29.2

Frown in the corner is a splash like sting.

0:31.8

Even Jerry King will take off the crown,

0:34.3

nodding his head like his D. Low brown,

0:36.5

and we forget low down, but we go even higher.

0:39.3

Flip you on your head,

0:40.4

there's no cool driver.

0:42.0

You be spitting more knowledge if the dragon splits fire.

0:44.0

Give you more shock than when edge retires.

0:47.0

Dropping more truth than the kind of slipper.

0:49.0

Bless you with a coconut,

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