Ep.4: 1994 WWF King of the Ring

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 222 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Lapsed Fan, the “Co-Chairmen” return to the pomp and circumstance of the King of the Ring… But this time 1994’s entry. Amidst the Vince McMahon steroid trials and Hulk Hogan signing with WCW, the WWE was struggling to find its new identity and a "new generation" of superstars. Headlined by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper versus Jerry “The King” Lawler, this event seemed more like a step backward than a step forward.

Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro bring their brand of humor and nostalgia to the 1994 King of the Ring, discussing among other things:

– Arguably the worst pin in the history of the sport of kings

– How hard it was to find this particular show in video stores

– Roddy Piper’s prejudice against people without a neck

– Who Bret Hart claimed was the WWE’s most “stunning figure” at the time

– Two words…Art Donovan

That and so much more on the Lapsed Fan review of the 1994 King of the Ring, only at WrestleZone.com. Brace yourself… We’re about to get medieval.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. It's the Lapsd Fan Wrestling Podcast with
0:44.8	It's the Laps' Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack An Carnesio and J.P. Sorrows It's still real to be damn it!
0:46.5	The Laps Fan.
0:48.0	In all my years in professional wrestling, I've never seen anything like it.
0:52.4	Oh my God!
0:53.0	Exclusively at WrestleZone.com.
0:56.0	And yes, welcome once again to another edition of the last fan wrestling podcast here at
1:02.0	WrestleZone.
1:03.0	Jack and Canarsio, J.P. Saro, the co-chairman of this brand of entertainment,
1:08.0	back in the saddle, J.P.
1:10.0	Let us holler at you players.
1:12.0	And your show this week,
1:14.8	your archived W.W.
1:16.8	Network pay-per-view content to be broken down,
1:19.4	dissected, split apart, over-analy 1994 W W. W. F. King of the rain. Yes. Yes. I'll tell you, you know what, I remember last time I believe that when we chose this show or when we randomly picked this show, I was a little upset. But watching this show for the first
1:48.2	time in a while, it's actually not a bad show. It isn't. You know, it's got some good quality to it. There's some good wrestling. I mean, granted, there were the, it seemed like, I mean, I've heard, I shouldn't say it seems like I say I heard I've heard that there was some inattentiveness to this show perhaps because of the ongoing steroid trials.
2:13.5	Sure, I mean this was, wow, was this hot and heavy point in time?
2:18.0	I mean, this show took place June 19th,
2:19.9	1994 at the Baltimore Arena and Baltimore Maryland.
2:23.0	Cleverly titled Baltimore arena.
2:25.0	And we're talking, yeah, yeah, definitely.
2:28.0	There was a big brainstorming session with high-paid executives and their feet kicked up on the desk to come up with that name.
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