30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XVII (2001) - Part Two
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 10 August 2015
⏱️ 230 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!
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Because dysfunctional rhymes with wrestle. |
| 0:39.8 | wrestle. |
| 0:40.8 | at the end. |
| 0:42.4 | dysfunctional, wrestle, oh. |
| 0:45.0 | Nope. |
| 0:46.0 | Not happening. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, whoever, by the way, I really hope that whoever told Stephanie McMahon that crimping her hair was a good idea, got fired. |
| 0:55.1 | Yeah, you don't like it. |
| 0:56.1 | It looks, it looks so stupid. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah. It doesn't even look good for, you know, that wasn't even a, was it a 90s |
| 1:02.3 | thing? Well, I don't know, it's |
| 1:04.4 | it was it a 90s thing were they doing that well I don't know it's 2001 so I mean that's true |
| 1:06.3 | but I mean that seems so sixth grade yeah yeah |
| 1:10.5 | crimping your hair like that I always thought she looked awful when she did that. Maybe that was her idea. She wanted to look awful, but I'll say one thing about Stephanie, you know, it's really notable now looking back. She was so like immature looking. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh yes. |
| 1:25.0 | During this initial heel turn and Triple H Alliance. |
| 1:28.0 | It's amazing. |
| 1:29.0 | Now she's such a, she's so much more of like a woman, like a, you know, a pant suit wearing Hillary Clinton-esque kind of like character. |
| 1:36.4 | That's what comes with working out with Triple H. |
| 1:38.8 | That's what comes with being the chief brand officer. |
| 1:40.8 | That's true. |
| 1:41.8 | That's true. So there you go. The chief serial officer. That's true. The chief serial officer. Yeah, the chief |
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