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Ep 130: WWF's Invasion (2001) (Part 2)

The Lapsed Fan

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 285 minutes

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Ep 130: WWF's Invasion (2001) (Part 2) by The Lapsed Fan

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And we're back. Lapsd Fan Wrestling Podcast, Patreon listener request series 2017 part two of our very special W. W presentation the night you stopped caring in the

0:38.8

Lapsed Van Solar System. You know it's it's so true. It's so true watching, having watched this show again, you know, for the first time in well over a decade.

1:00.2

I don't know if I watched it.

1:01.8

I'm sure I watched it once or twice after it aired and I saw it live but goddamn I haven't

1:10.5

seen since then. This is not easy. This show is hard. It was harder than I thought it would be.

1:19.6

Hard in what way? Hard as in boring or hard as in it hurts hard as in it hurts hard as in

1:29.2

what could have been hard as in it's boring. I just didn't feel excited watching this. There were times

1:40.8

I did but rewatching it, it's just like, and I counted, you know, there are only, I mean it seems like a lot, but given, you know, it's a stacked roster on this show. You know you got many multi-man matches and you've

1:55.2

got 11 matches including the dark match right? Only 15 men people, sorry, were like not associated with the W. W. W. E. prior to the invasion.

2:11.0

15. Well, yeah, on the measure of did it feel like a show where first time

2:18.7

W. W. W. W. F. wrestlers were getting in the ring. No. I mean that was part of the tragedy of it is they

2:25.4

really only settled for a version of this thing that felt comfortable and

2:29.1

familiar and was stocked like we've said with more ECW guys turned W. W.F.

2:33.7

guys than W. W. W. W. guys in the fucking invasion.

2:36.5

I mean, that tells you all you need to know, that they felt the Duddles were the

2:39.9

comfortable place for this thing.

2:43.4

It's just...

2:44.0

I mean, the only two matches that really got me excited

2:49.0

were the hardcore title match in the main event. the rest of it just kind of sits there like a

2:55.2

fucking piece of shit in the middle of the living room it does well you don't you don't really

3:00.4

have inspired matchmaking I mean as we've documented in part one of this thing

3:04.4

it's not like they had hopes to springboard off of this show into more of this angle. I mean ultimately

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