Boss you ready for one last dive?

Yeah. Are you ready to say goodbye?

I, I, um, yeah, I think it's time.

I can feel it coming in the air tonight.

And for the final deep dive installment of the

lamentable tragedy of world-class championship wrestling here at the

Laps fan wrestling podcast we look at what other year but 1988, the last year of world-class

footage available in the WWE network, as we talked about in detail in part one of our

1988 installment, the year that control of the organization physically, actually,

legally changes hands.

Yeah.

Majority ownership from the Vonny Rick family to that of Jerry Jarrett. And so

1988 is sort of a tease and an entree into the consummation of that transfer and ultimately after it's done

that's where the hard line seems to be drawn in terms of what video footage

W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. what video footage WWE could have purchased from the Von Eric family as opposed to video footage

that would be owned by Jarrett. Although we did learn that there is some USWA footage from the,

yeah, from the era that is on Amazon Prime but there is there is I don't I don't

have the patience anymore well you know I mean it's a different promotion. At that point, it's a completely different story.

I mean, we're not even talking about the Von Errik's.

But there is, of course, just so you know, if this hasn't been made clear,

one last stop and the lamentable tragedy much

like our Montreal journey in 97, much like some of the pauses we took during the

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