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The Lapsed Fan

30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania III (1987)

The Lapsed Fan

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2015

⏱️ 284 minutes

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Summary

The latest Lapsed Fan is bigger, it’s badder, and it’s better. Anything less would be inappropriate.

Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro dive into the cavernous environs of the once-mighty Pontiac Silverdome for a wall-to-wall breakdown of Wrestlemania III, a banner night for professional wrestling and a true milestone on the Lapsed Fan’s 30-week, 30-Wrestlemania journey.

We cover all bases, from Aretha Franklin to Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant, with a tremendous assist from wrestling guru Dave Meltzer. The show covers:

- The real 78,000 attendance figure for show, and how we can be sure

- A sentimental sojourn to the Silverdome’s parking lot in 2007

- What there is to learn about a perfect wrestling payoff from Piper v. Adonis

- Steamboat v. Savage, and why it’s annoying to pretend it wasn’t an all-time classic

- Recollections of whether or not Andre got the 3 on Hogan’s first botched slam attempt

- Bundy squashes a midget (commentators’ term, not ours)

- Alice Cooper’s strange combination of apprehension and stubbornness while wielding Jake’s snake

- Your hosts take tremendous artistic liberties envisioning the conversation between Vince McMahon and Andre on the set of “The Princess Bride,” trying to sell the big man on working the big show

- And laughing. So much laughing you’ll tell yourself you’re going to stop listening (but you won’t)

Get on board that Lapsed Fan locomotive, as we make our third stop in Pontiac, 1987, the big one, Wrestlemania III.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrow.

0:07.0

It's still real to be, damn it!

0:10.0

The Lapsed Fans.

0:11.0

In all my years in professional wrestling, I've never seen anything like it.

0:15.0

Oh my God!

0:17.0

Rob Kick in a beauty!

0:18.0

The God!

0:20.0

The God!

0:21.0

This Gonna Party! This is the last fan man, number one in the ring.

0:24.0

Forget about the start, we the real king of swing.

0:26.0

When the bell goes hang, and a kick like me.

0:29.0

Throwning in the corner is a splash like sting.

0:31.0

Even Jerry King, they take off the crown,

0:34.3

nodded in his head like his D-Low Brown,

0:36.6

when you get low down, but we go even higher.

0:39.4

Flip you on your head,

0:40.4

there's no cool driving.

0:42.0

You be spitting more knowledge, the dragon spits fire.

0:44.5

Give you more shock than when edge retires.

0:47.0

Dropping more truth than the kind of slipper.

0:49.5

Bless you with a coconut, roty piper.

0:52.0

Jack a J. Pee, be like jy d, drop the cupcakes are guoting,

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