30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XVII (2001) - Part One
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 10 August 2015
⏱️ 211 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro go especially deep this week, as your co-chairmen prove more than up to the task of tackling a show wrought with such tremendous historical significance, taking place as it did weeks after the WWF purchased WCW and changed wrestling forever.
The podcast includes:
- Wide-ranging discussion of the disastrous Steve Austin heel turn, and what minor tweaks could have given a shot at success
- The squandered potential of the WCW invasion, and why the top WCW names like Flair, Goldberg, Nash, Hall, and Hogan weren’t brought in right away but all eventually were
- Why Shane McMahon’s coast-to-coast dropkick into a trash can resting on his father’s face is the perfect finish to a pro wrestling grudge match
- Some 18 months into his WWF run, Kurt Angle dazzles by more than holding his own in a technical masterpiece with Chris Benoit
- The lessons of TLC II
- HHH v. Ray Lewis? HHH v. Mike Tyson?
- Analysis of the most underrated commentary duo in WWF history – JR and Paul Heyman
- Why this show was the swansong for so many die hard wrestling fans
Plus exclusive audio clips from interviews with Steve Austin on eclipsing Hogan, Eric Bischoff on how the AOL/Time Warner merger spelled WCW’s demise, and Jeff Hardy on why his Mania risks were worth taking. And Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer returns to explain why this show was the greatest in WWF history and the not-so-positive changes it set in motion.
Merry Christmas from The Lapsed Fan. Presenting WrestleMania X-Seven, available for download now!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. It's the Lapsd fan wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrows |
| 0:26.1 | It's still real to be damn it! The Laps' Fan |
| 0:29.2 | In all my years in professional wrestling, I've never seen anything like it. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh my God! |
| 0:35.0 | Drop kick in a beauty! |
| 0:37.0 | The God! |
| 0:38.0 | The God I'm coming! |
| 0:39.0 | Well, it's the last family, |
| 0:41.0 | mother one in the rain. |
| 0:42.0 | Forget about the start We we the real king is |
| 0:44.4 | swing. When the bell goes hang, a kick like me. |
| 0:47.6 | Fool in the corner is a splash like sting. |
| 0:50.3 | Even Jerry King, they take off the crown. Nodden his head like his D-Low Brown. |
| 0:55.0 | You get low down, but we go even higher. |
| 0:58.0 | Flip you on your head, |
| 0:59.0 | bers you know-goo driver. |
| 1:00.0 | You be spitting more knowledge than |
| 1:02.0 | now a drag and splits fire. |
| 1:03.0 | Give you more shock than when Edd retires. |
| 1:05.0 | Dropping more truth than the kind of sniper. |
| 1:08.0 | Bless you with a coconut, roddy pipe, |
| 1:10.0 | Jack of J.P. D. J. Y.-D drop the cupcakes are quoting the brain by me the best |
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