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The Lapsed Fan

The Lamentable Tragedy of World Class: 1983 (Part 2)

The Lapsed Fan

The Lapsed Fan

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 221 minutes

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The Lamentable Tragedy of World Class: 1983 (Part 2) by The Lapsed Fan

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0:00.0

Boss, we've only got one week left of Triumph.

0:04.4

Yes.

0:05.2

So let's make it count.

0:06.7

What do you say?

0:08.7

Please.

0:09.7

I mean...

0:11.0

You think we've gone into the depths before on this show. From here on out, I mean after the year

0:17.2

1983 and the lamentable tragedy of world-class championship wrestling, I mean it's just the most depressing shit you've ever

0:24.2

heard associated with wrestling. So it's gonna get dark. You know like like we

0:30.0

we I think I think it's safe to say I mean it's not safe to say it's a guaranteed

0:35.0

that we have taken liberties in terms of the dark humor again still waiting for

0:40.1

that email from from Kevin von Eric waiting for it to come through for that It's going to get real, I mean I know it's going to get real heavy. Yeah.

0:56.0

Real heavy next week.

0:58.0

So part of the reason it gets so heavy is they had such an incredible 1983 in this motion. The intensity they generated

1:06.1

from the fans, the way everything started to come together around the Von Eriks, the boys

1:12.1

starting to mature and grow into the spotlight, the television absolutely rocking, you know the syndication unlock and growing the realization that the Von Erich boys were becoming stars way outside the bounds of Texas

1:25.1

to the point that they should probably tour in cities up and down the East Coast and indeed

1:29.5

in the years to come across the world.

1:31.3

In 1983, with the exception of Carrie being padded down at the

1:35.3

Alice Fort Worth Airport on the way back from his honeymoon, as we talked about last

1:39.2

time we were with you, is the last year of scandal-free von Eriks without a whiff of scandal without that

1:47.3

being the predominant thing in your mind when you watch them carry on and of course the last year without

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