30 Week Journey: Wrestlemana V (1989)

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2015

⏱️ 293 minutes

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Summary

The Lapsed Fan has reached week five of its 30-week Wrestlemania trek, and thus your hosts come to the conclusion of one the most perfectly-told stories in WWF history, as Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage collided – nay, exploded – after an unforgettable, drawn-out tension.

Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro take a deep – too deep? – dive into the gritty environs of Atlantic City for the second consecutive year, assessing what made Hogan v. Savage the apex of pro wrestling storytelling, and why the feud was so powerful it would engulf both legends’ careers forever.

Revisit the 1989 extravaganza from all angles, including:

- “Jealous eyes”
- Randy Savage’s obsession with Hulk gets so bad he actually puts out a diss track
- The extra dimension the feud gave to the, up to that point, flat Hogan hero character
- Rockin Robin doesn’t quite rock it
- Rick Rude takes Ultimate Warrior to the next level
- The Wrestlemania debut of Mr. Wrestlemania; let the missile dropkicks commence
- The best clothesline in Wrestlemania history
- Bushwackers chow down, lick the nervous sweat off Sean Mooney’s head
- Curt Hennig v. Owen Hart
- Why the Run DMC and Morton Downey Jr. appearances didn’t work
- The relative merits of No Holds Barred
- Just why Donald Trump saw fit to bring in a team of seismologists for this night

That and so, so, so, so, so, so much more, including reflections from wrestling guru Dave Meltzer, on the fifth installment of The Lapsed Fan’s Wrestelmania journey. Do you dare download?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. It's the Lapsd fan wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrows
0:26.1	It's still real to be damn it! The Lapsed Fan
0:29.2	In all my years in professional wrestling, I've never seen anything like it.
0:34.0	Oh my God!
0:35.0	Drop kick in a beauty!
0:37.0	The God of money!
0:38.0	The God I'm coming!
0:40.0	Well it's the last fan man,
0:41.0	Mother one in the rain,
0:42.0	forget about the start we the the real king of sway.
0:45.0	When the bell goes hang, the kick like me,
0:47.0	phone in the corner is a splash like sting.
0:50.0	Even Jerry King, they take off the crown,
0:52.0	nod in his head like his D-Low Brown.
0:55.0	And you get low down, but we go even higher.
0:58.0	Flip you on your head, because you know cool driving.
1:00.0	You be spitting more knowledge if the dragon splits fire
1:03.0	Give you more shock than when edge retires
1:05.0	Dropping more truth than the kind of sniper
1:08.0	Bless you with a coconut, roddy piper
1:10.0	Jack and J. Pee, like JYD. Dropping cupcakes are guoating, the brain by The
1:15.0	B-Y-D-Y-D drop the cupcakes are quoting, the brain by me, the best podcast from the start to close.
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