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Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

New Generation Declassified: HBK's 1st Championship Reign featuring "Man Of Steel" Mike Verna

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Sports, Wrestling

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The latest New Generation Declassified looks at when the boyhood dream came true and the 1st WWF Championship reign of Shawn Michaels began in March 1996 through the end at the 1996 Survivor Series. Joined by "Man of Steel" Mike Verna, Chad runs through the angles, matches, moments and merchandise of the Heartbreak Kid and breaks down how this much hyped and anticipated victory lived up to the build and expectations of the WWF management team. We also discuss how the New York City crowd made the beloved Shawn Michaels take a backseat to the rise of the newest face of the WWF title picture, Psycho Sid.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. The President. I'm All right.

0:39.7

Let's get it going right here.

0:41.2

Right now.

0:41.7

This is New Generation Declassified.

0:44.3

And you're listening to an all-new, new, new generation, declassified here exclusively on the two-man power tip of wrestling podcasting Empire.

0:52.4

If you didn't know, by now, my name is Chad and every single week.

0:55.7

We take a journey back in time and go back and look at the glory days, the good old days of

1:00.0

professional wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation's new generation era, 93 to early 97-ish.

1:07.2

Each week we look at a new topic.

1:08.9

This week it's no different as we go back. And we're going to do a little something interesting because of the timeline

1:15.1

for the gentleman on the line with me.

1:16.8

But we're going to look at the World Championship reign, the first one of one heartbreak kid,

1:22.5

Sean Michaels, and we're going to do it with another guy who likes to break some hearts.

1:26.4

And that is the man of steel himself.

1:28.5

Mr. Mike Verna, Jordan had the first time on this airwaves. He's been on Diamond Conversations. He's been on Eyes Up Here. But now we get to talk your specialty. We get to talk a little old school WWF. Oh, my specialty indeed. I mean, that is, it's funny because it's not what I grew up on, but it's what I grew up on.

1:28.0

Right.

1:28.1

It's more like what I was in diapers on, but what I grew up on. And this was before the YouTube era, this was before the network era. So I love anything, WWF at that particular time. I mean, that is what made me a wrestler today. That is what made me a fan.

2:01.9

So I'm glad to be talking about it. I'm even more glad to be talking about it with my man, Chad. And I'm back to, I'm actually happy to be on what, like you said, this is your third, this is our third conversation on the airwaves on a third different show. it's weird too.

1:58.2

Yeah.

1:58.9

Each time it's been different.

2:00.1

We talked literally about baseball and what you've done, you know,

2:02.8

coaching baseball and playing baseball. We talked about with Francine just, I think more your acting stuff more than anything. And then now we're going to talk about, you know, growing up as a fan. And that's what I think is funny about you coming on for this. You're literally in diapers at the beginning of the new generation. Okay? It shows the age difference here. So I'm a good 10 plus years older than you, which, you know, I mean, some of us might look better than others. You know, you might be stealing my physique a little bit, but that's another story for a different day. But the fact that you can go back and watch this stuff is fascinating to me

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