30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania II (1986)
The Lapsed Fan continues its 30-week, 30 Wrestlemania journey with what the world had come to in 1986, Wrestlemania 2.
It\u2019s the deuce, in perhaps more ways than one, as the WWF aims too high in trying to push the same buttons that made the first Wrestlemania such a success \u2013 a litany of celebrities and Mr. T mixing it up \u2013 while trying to basically have three Wrestlemanias at once. One city wasn\u2019t enough \u2013 this had to play out in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro \u2013 with another enlightening contribution from the guru Dave Meltzer \u2013 journey and lampoon their way through the second Grand Daddy of them All, including:
- The New York Athletic Commission\u2019s insistence that they regulate Mr. T versus Roddy Piper in a worked boxing match, only to stand idly by as Piper threw a stool at T in between rounds and committed a litany of other heinous breaches without consequence
- Fans are left asking \u201cwhere\u2019s the beef?\u201d when a mic fails
- The Wrestlemania debuts of event icons Jake Roberts and Randy Savage
- Susan St. James brings her \u2026 perspective to the color commentary chair
- Dynamite Kid and Terry Funk\u2019s one real chance to strut their stuff on the WWF\u2019s grand stage
- The NFLer who had heat with Andre leading into the Battle Royal
- Big John Studd no-sells Bill Fralic
- The debut of the blue cage
- Hogan slams Bundy and victimizes Heenan
- Check your drawers, it\u2019s G. Gordon Liddy
Jump on this speeding locomotive that is The Lapsed Fan\u2019s 30-week Wrestlemania mission!