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The Lapsed Fan

Ep 44: 1990 NWA's Capital Combat

The Lapsed Fan

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 216 minutes

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Summary

Coming off a 30-week WrestleMania bender, The Lapsed Fan gets back to the business of deep diving an eclectic array of wrestling pay-per-views from the past. This week, it’s the night Robocop saved Sting. Or, as Jim Cornette once called it, “one of the biggest abortions in the in the history of wrestling.”

NWA Capital Combat 1990 will forever live in infamy, and TLF hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro stand ready to lampoon and assess it appropriately.

Witness:

- The story behind the forced Robocop angle, and how the gimmicked cage Robocop bent with his hands actually managed to dilute other parts of the show

- The legacy of movie Robocop, and how casting him as a traditional, save-the-day superhero completely misses the point and genius of the film

- Reflections on Norman the Lunatic

- Big Johnny versus Big Evil, as Mark Calaway makes a rare WCW PPV appearance and flashes several glimpses of his trademark Undertaker move set against Johnny Ace

- Sid stands around – stone faced and in a tuxedo for no reason – while his 4 Horsemen counterparts lambaste Sting

- Why Bobby Eaton is under appreciated

- Junkyard Dog tells Jim Cornette he’s been sleeping with his mother
- One of the best Frankensteiners Scott ever hit

- The Corporal Punishment match between the Freebirds and the Rock N’ Roll Express, where whipping a man’s hide is legal, but entering the ring without a proper tag is not

- Captain Mike Rotunda

All that and so much more, as The Lapsed Fan journeys back to a true pro wrestling curiosity, and gives that trademark TLF treatment to Capital Combat 90.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

It's still rude to be, damn it!

0:10.0

The Laps Fan!

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

Robkink in a beauty!

0:18.0

The God Almighty!

0:20.0

The God Almighty! Let's kill!

0:21.0

Well, it's the last fan man,

0:22.5

number one in the ring, forget about the start,

0:25.0

we the real king of swing.

0:26.4

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

0:29.2

Throwning the corner is a splash like sting.

0:31.8

Even Jerry King, it'll take off off the crown not in his head like a

0:35.6

D. Loe Brown forget low down but we go even higher flip you on your head

0:40.2

there's you no cool driver you be spitting spitting more now if the dragon splits fire.

0:44.0

Give you more shock than when edge retires.

0:47.0

Dropping more truth than the kind of slipper.

0:49.0

Bless you with a coconut,

0:51.0

Roddy Piper,

0:52.0

Jack a J-P-y d drop the cupcakes are guoting the brain

0:56.2

bibb the best podcast for a start to close if y'all benefit is a five second pose

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