30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania X (1994)
It was 10 years in the making when the WWF staged WrestleMania X at Madison Square Garden in 1994, and it\u2019s been 10 weeks in the making on The Lapsed Fan podcast\u2019s 30-week WrestleMania sojourn.
This week hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro blast off into the next decade of the WWF\u2019s 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\u2019ll find on the X, including:
\u2013 The winding road to Bret Hart\u2019s crowning \u2013 yet, in ways, bittersweet \u2013 achievement, as he\u2019s hoisted up on the shoulders of his contemporaries as champion, Vince McMahon beaming below as all is seemingly forgotten
\u2013 Little Richard makes surprising noises during \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d
\u2013 The Hair Club for Men guy gets a face full of Doink water
\u2013 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
\u2013 Owen\u2019s phlegm, and how it symbolized the perfectly-honed Bret v. Owen brother v. brother story line
\u2013 Bill Dunn gives Fink a run for his money (not really)
\u2013 The Lex Express finally runs out of steam
\u2013 The curious, seamless assimilation of Burt Reynolds into the carny wrestling world
\u2013 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\u2019ve got it.