30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XXV (2009)
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 11 August 2015
⏱️ 247 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro delve into Reliant Stadium in Houston and the epic confrontation between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. Why was it so great? Greatest match in Mania history? Second greatest? this classic is dissected once and for all by your co-chairmen.
Plus:
- The hits and misses of the HHH v. Orton main event, why Orton should have come in champion, and why the match layout only served to hurt matters
- Jeff Hardy v. Matt Hardy, the match no one asked for with risks no one wanted to see taken (though a Twist of Fate on a guy with a chair necklace in undeniably cool)
- Kofi Kingston uses a busted “Money in the Bank” ladder as stilts, and Shelton Benjamin jumps from the highest perch he can find
- Why Deuce’s botched catch of Undertaker’s soaring plancha ultimately helped, not hurt, the HBK match
- Kid Rock tests our collective patience
- A Diva Battle Royal, and Sunny is in there somewhere
- The full story behind Mickey Rourke’s paranoia over Jericho shooting on him, and how the hell MMA great Frank Shamrock ended up in the front row.
All that and so much more as the Mains toasted to 25 years in 2010. Listen as guru Dave Meltzer lays out the full greatness of the Mickey Rourke saga and the brillian of HBK/Taker.
Only five Manias to go on The Lapsed Fan’s 30-week voyage!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. It's the Laps'Anastio and J.Sorrows. |
| 0:35.0 | It's the Laps' Fan Wrestling Podcast |
| 0:41.0 | with Jack An Carnesio and J.P. Sorrows |
| 0:44.7 | It's still real to be damn it! |
| 0:46.7 | The Lapsed Fans. |
| 0:47.8 | In all my years in professional wrestling, |
| 0:50.4 | I've never seen anything like it. |
| 0:52.3 | Oh my God! |
| 0:53.0 | Rob Kick in a beauty! |
| 0:55.0 | The God! |
| 0:56.0 | The God I'm coming! |
| 0:58.0 | This Gonna coming! This is the last family, |
| 0:59.0 | number one in the ring. |
| 1:01.0 | Forget about the start |
| 1:02.0 | We the real king is swing. |
| 1:03.4 | When the bell goes hang, a kick like me. |
| 1:06.2 | Full in the corner is a splashlight sting. |
| 1:08.9 | Even Jerry King will take off the crown. |
| 1:11.3 | Not in his head like he's D. |
| 1:12.8 | Brown will you get low down but we go even higher. |
| 1:16.2 | Flip you on your head, |
| 1:17.4 | there's you no crew driver. |
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