30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XXIII (2007) - Part Two

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

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🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

As The Lapsed Fan’s 30-week WrestleMania journey unfolds, your hosts have come to the point in WWE history where the curious rise of John Cena began to provoked unique fan responses. Crowds in major markets across the country began to vociferously rejected Cena, all while his merchandise sales and other metrics signaled he was by far the man for the franchise position and the star of the moment.

As TLF reached WrestleManias 22 and 23 – both headlined by Cena, where he turns away challenges by Triple H and Shawn Michaels – hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro felt it appropriate to pause and focus on why it was (and is) that Cena is rejected by a such sizable portion of the audience, and how it connects to WWE’s contemporary struggles to elevate Roman Reigns.

The Lapsed Fan Solar System weighed in with their thoughts and “Top 3 Reasons Why” lists, and your hosts chop up that feedback in a quest to identify just what it was, and continues to be, that rubs so many people the wrong way about the WWE’s franchise player through the late 2000s.

Enjoy this special supplemental look at John Cena and the milieu of 2006/2007 WWE, as The Lapsed Fan’s week-by-week trudge to WrestleMania 31 continues!

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And welcome to a special compendium of the 23rd edition of the Lapsed fan wrestling
0:25.5	podcast 30 week WrestleMania journey Jack and Canarsio
0:29.6	jepi sorrow mhm and jepi i thought it appropriate and we thought it appropriate to pause at this 23 week
0:36.8	mark in the 30 week journey because there's a subject matter upon us here at 23,
0:42.3	Wrestle Lania 22, and it kind of starts at WrestleMania 21
0:46.0	that I think illustrates very clearly kind of a central concept
0:51.0	of why we started the show, Bl Lapsd fan in the first place.
0:54.0	Yeah, absolutely.
0:55.0	We've got the idea of the Lapsd fan, and we set out from the beginning by going back to the
1:00.0	shows when wrestling was better, to identify just what it was about wrestling that changed and made
1:09.5	it feel less special, less real, less interesting, less memorable.
1:13.1	Doesn't mean we're not huge fans,
1:15.2	as our 30-week journey, I think,
1:16.8	is demonstrated this far through every conceivable era
1:19.9	of the W. W.F.
1:20.6	But we come now, Boss, to the point where the crowd begins to do something unique
1:25.9	in WWE history. They reject the top baby face in John Cina. We've talked about it a bit, but here on this special addendum to the
1:35.7	WrestleMania 23 additional Lapsd fan, we're going to put to bed once and for all with the
1:39.8	help of course of the Lapsd Fan solar system why that is.
1:43.0	Yes, indeed.
1:45.0	We get to, I mean, here's, you know, we talk about, you know, why fan, we ask the question why fans dropped off why do we have lapse fans yeah
1:55.6	and I would say this is a this is a key reason is is the rise of John Cenum.
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