Episode 148: WrestleMania 17

Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard

Podcast Heat

Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

What a crazy month for Vince McMahon. The XFL is tanking and NBC wants out of the deal, Jerry Lawler walked out, ECW files for bankruptcy, Paul Heyman needs a job, Vince has a meltdown on HBO, he acquires WCW, and oh by the way he's about to put on the biggest WrestleMania ever! Bruce and Conrad dig into all of these moving parts going on behind the scenes before what will be the most financially successful WrestleMania ever up until that point setting records in nearly every category. The show would feature a crazy hardcore match people remember to this day, the crazy McMahon family story, an unreal match between Benoit and Angle, perhaps one of the silliest battle royals in WWE history, the tag team match that created a highlight reel by itself and set the standard for TLCs to come, and a match between the two biggest icons in the business at the time with an ending that changed everything. The guys break down the business aspect of the show, the creative, and the regrets coming out of the show. Don't miss one of the most requested topics ever -- WrestleMania X-Seven! Don't miss our last live show in New York -- the Monday after WrestleMania, right after RAW, just steps from Barclays! Jim Ross and Bruce Prichard on stage together for the last time ever? Don't miss it BrucePrichard.com! Our last live show EVER will be at Starrcast II in Las Vegas. Tickets are on sale now at Starrcast.com and if you can't make it to Vegas it was just announced earlier today that Starrcast will be LIVE and On-Demand in HD on FITE worldwide! This will be our first live show EVER to be LIVE worldwide! Pre-Order today and save a bundle on 20+ shows for one low price at STARRCASTonFITE.com! Get a lower monthly payment, payoff your credit cards, pay your house off faster, and even skip your next two house payments at SaveWithBruce.com Stop throwing your money away on rent and buy a house for less than current rent at HideFromRent.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to something to wrestle with Bruce Richard Bruce. What's going on?
0:06.5	Oh, man. How are you? Welcome back to America.
0:09.5	Hey, good day, mate. It's lovely to be back. Hey. Oh, God. I really thought we could avoid you trying to do bullshit crocodile
0:17.0	Done deep. Oh, I guess I don't guess that's possible, huh?
0:19.5	I'm actually doing Wally who was a tour manager who was basically an Australian hybrid of John Paul Shelman.
0:28.3	Well, okay. Well, I don't know what all that means, but I know you had a great time. You were sending me lots of fun pictures and
0:34.9	It seems like you had such a good time that you spread the word to our mutual friend Eric Bischoff and now he's going to Australia in June.
0:42.0	Well, he's gonna have a damn good time. I can promise him that so it's gonna be a that'll be a good one for everybody
0:48.1	I know I had a blast and the Australian audiences were fantastic.
0:54.2	I just I can't say enough. It was a bucket list dream of mine to go to Australia. I got to experience it and I'll definitely be back at some point.
1:02.9	So chat me up. What was the feedback you got about last week's episode?
1:07.2	Wrestlemania 10
1:09.4	Well, I think everybody
1:11.6	They all compared it to WrestleMania 20 and
1:15.8	Most of the feedback I got was all positive. It was I think that we did a pretty damn extensive job
1:21.7	Going through all the different topics and all the shit that took place throughout and I would also have to
1:29.2	Say everybody agreed that probably the greatest opening match in WrestleMania history was Owen Hart and Bret Hart
1:37.0	We also agree that you were mistaken and Barry Wyndham was definitely not there. Yeah, I'm not I'm not going for that
1:44.6	Okay, I don't give a fuck. Okay
1:47.6	I like you're gonna dig your heels in on something silly, but let me tell you you dug my heels in on silly shit
1:54.5	I'm a heel digger with you dug your heels. I'm trying to make a transition when you quit stepping on me. Well go ahead
2:01.4	Give me a countdown and
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