It was 10 years in the making when the WWF staged WrestleMania X at Madison Square Garden in 1994, and it’s been 10 weeks in the making on The Lapsed Fan podcast’s 30-week WrestleMania sojourn.
This week hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro blast off into the next decade of the WWF’s evolution, as Titan presents its first Hogan-less Mania and definitively turns the limelight over to go-getters like Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Scott Hall, and Owen Hart.
Get Lapsed across the face with the deepest dive you’ll find on the X, including:
– The winding road to Bret Hart’s crowning – yet, in ways, bittersweet – achievement, as he’s hoisted up on the shoulders of his contemporaries as champion, Vince McMahon beaming below as all is seemingly forgotten
– Little Richard makes surprising noises during “America the Beautiful”
– The Hair Club for Men guy gets a face full of Doink water
– A Zapruder-film-esque breakdown of HBK v. Razor in the ladder match that changed the industry and moved the art form three or four paces forward
– Owen’s phlegm, and how it symbolized the perfectly-honed Bret v. Owen brother v. brother story line
– Bill Dunn gives Fink a run for his money (not really)
– The Lex Express finally runs out of steam
– The curious, seamless assimilation of Burt Reynolds into the carny wrestling world
– Vince meets with Ray Apollo about the future of Doink (Dramatization)
That and so much more, including guru Dave Meltzer recapping what it was like to live through and cover a dramatic transition period for the WWF. You want it. You need it. We’ve got it.
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
