The Lapsed Fan: The Unwrappening 2025 Day 15

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<v Speaker 2>We've been a little boys this year. Every game it's
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<v Speaker 1>For the million dollar man set it claus it say
<v Speaker 1>it's not so. The unwrapping twenty twenty five continued since
<v Speaker 1>the TLS Christmas Show and since the Boss and I
<v Speaker 1>gathered in person to open any number of Christmas packages.
<v Speaker 1>Several more have come into the Lapsed po box since
<v Speaker 1>we departed parted ways, so to speak. So we're over
<v Speaker 1>video call as we were for the last installment the
<v Speaker 1>lapse time. The lapsed time was then and they're continuing that.
<v Speaker 1>I guess absolutely So who do we have next.
<v Speaker 2>We've got Tim Tim uh Coscuba.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, the homie from Connecticut, the one and only Tim
<v Speaker 1>from Connecticut. Talk about a day one all the way
<v Speaker 1>back to the shirt dog days goes.
<v Speaker 2>You know what. Look, I'm gonna tell you something. I think, finally,
<v Speaker 2>after all these years, I've learned something.
<v Speaker 1>He's got scissors unlike me, scissors.
<v Speaker 2>Unlike any other year. We've never had scissors. We always
<v Speaker 2>fucking even even the times we did it in this office,
<v Speaker 2>in my office that time, I didn't have fucking scissors.
<v Speaker 1>A lot easier to think about those little small logistics
<v Speaker 1>when you only have to open four boxes instead of
<v Speaker 1>three thousand. The boss man tears away. Of course, everything's
<v Speaker 1>on his side of the equation. So I'm I'm watching on.
<v Speaker 1>I can see the box.
<v Speaker 2>I have a card. We have a card here, we do.
<v Speaker 2>So how do we start things? Co Chairman, this meeting
<v Speaker 2>has been called to order. Correct Merry Christmas and Happy
<v Speaker 2>New Year. It's just that un rapping bits. Oh yes,
<v Speaker 2>Merry Christmas. Nice card there in lockdown like that like that, Oh,
<v Speaker 2>we have we have a missive here. It's been a
<v Speaker 2>rough two years for me. Boys in late twenty twenty three,
<v Speaker 2>I was two months away from being married to the
<v Speaker 2>love of my life after and nearly I don't like
<v Speaker 2>where this is going. Already, after nearly an eighteen month engagement,
<v Speaker 2>completely out of left field, she broke it all off.
<v Speaker 2>Look at that marriage relationship everything I was blown in pieces.
<v Speaker 2>I lost thousands of dollars on a ring and had
<v Speaker 2>to abruptly move out and find a studio apartment in
<v Speaker 2>a city I could barely afford. Yeah, if it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>for uh, it wasn't for my It wasn't for my
<v Speaker 2>Is that a cat? It wasn't for my cat needing?
<v Speaker 2>I thought I was gonna say caught. It was like
<v Speaker 2>caught or cut. I probably need it again for my
<v Speaker 2>cat needing me, I may have tapped out on this
<v Speaker 2>squared circle we call life. Not now. No no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>not no way.
<v Speaker 1>I will not stand for it, and those who are
<v Speaker 1>happier here every day won't stand for it.
<v Speaker 2>Damn right us included. Needless to say, I was alone
<v Speaker 2>a lot. But one of the ways I could keep
<v Speaker 2>my keep my space but also feel like I could
<v Speaker 2>feel like I was amongst friends was listening and re
<v Speaker 2>listening to the pod.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yes, I mean, look, you know we also come
<v Speaker 1>in handy when you find yourself incredibly lonesome all of
<v Speaker 1>a sudden for reasons that can't be predicted. But we're
<v Speaker 1>constant not only with the output, but the shelf life too.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's something that I mean a lot of life is
<v Speaker 1>about bridging these multi hour points of drudgery. It you're
<v Speaker 1>stuck somewhere, you've got to do something, you're obliged to
<v Speaker 1>wait or look, something like this happens in your life
<v Speaker 1>and all of a sudden, you've got nothing but dead
<v Speaker 1>air to account for. We can be of assistance there
<v Speaker 1>and can be assistance.
<v Speaker 2>And unfortunately we don't live in a world anymore where
<v Speaker 2>you can do that with nothing. You know, Like it's
<v Speaker 2>harder than ever to sit there and actually have nothing
<v Speaker 2>and to do nothing and to just be patient. You
<v Speaker 2>need something, and we are always glad to fill that hole.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, thats been that has been Yeah, thoroughly shaken out
<v Speaker 1>of the gene pool, the ability to know what to
<v Speaker 1>do with yourself without stimulus. And so, like we always say,
<v Speaker 1>we don't make the rules. We just play by him
<v Speaker 1>and we just run the ball across the finish line,
<v Speaker 1>because we set up the smartest place podcast dam broadcasting broadly,
<v Speaker 1>and so Tim, you know it is it is the holidays,
<v Speaker 1>It is the time for reflections like this. So long
<v Speaker 1>as that second half sees the horizon, absolutely he sees
<v Speaker 1>the light.
<v Speaker 2>He continues. You know, I've been with you from day
<v Speaker 2>zero of this venture, and I just want to say
<v Speaker 2>thank you for being with me when I felt like
<v Speaker 2>a zero. Fast forward a bit, and I've and I've
<v Speaker 2>recovered a lot financially, emotionally and personally. So I felt
<v Speaker 2>the need to repay you and buy your affection. Listen,
<v Speaker 2>our affection is always for sale.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I mean, we never hid the fact that we
<v Speaker 1>were born in the United States of America.
<v Speaker 2>Damn right, Love you, Jens, and happy holidays. Tim formerly
<v Speaker 2>of CT now residing in Charleston, s c oh wow,
<v Speaker 2>look at that. There we go with So Tim from PS,
<v Speaker 2>I actually bought you two copies of a DVD in
<v Speaker 2>here for y'all. So he started with y'all, dude, come on, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>you didn't take long, did it. I don't care if
<v Speaker 2>you're dude. Come on, So I included both. I figured
<v Speaker 2>you could find something to do with it, maybe sign
<v Speaker 2>it and knock it off to this solar system. Why
<v Speaker 2>this movie? Well, all right, I'm not gonna go on
<v Speaker 2>from there because he talks a little bit about what
<v Speaker 2>this isn't here.
<v Speaker 1>So let's see what we got. Okay, yeah, we got,
<v Speaker 1>we got ah, here we go. We started off selected
<v Speaker 1>for your coach here. That's like a DVD on Christmas,
<v Speaker 1>bo Christ. There we go.
<v Speaker 2>What is it? Yeah, I'm actually glad because this is
<v Speaker 2>this is certainly on the list Ridley Scott's Black Rain.
<v Speaker 1>Tell me about this film. I don't think I know
<v Speaker 1>the first thing about it.
<v Speaker 2>I know about it. I know I've never seen it before,
<v Speaker 2>but uh I know, uh, Professor Tanaka is in this movie.
<v Speaker 2>It's with Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia. I remember it used
<v Speaker 2>to have a great It had a great The movie
<v Speaker 2>poster in the eighties was great. Not as stupid as
<v Speaker 2>this DVD cover. M So, it's an eighties slick. It
<v Speaker 2>is an eighties slick. Yeah, yeah, it's on the left. Stephen,
<v Speaker 2>though you've never seen it. That's that's oh yeah, Well
<v Speaker 2>we're rarefied a no, no, no, Unfortunately it is not rarefied here.
<v Speaker 2>There are so many movies that I've never seen because
<v Speaker 2>I've never wanted to see them and I've never heard
<v Speaker 2>of them before that are on the list. So let's
<v Speaker 2>see here if there's anything else. Oh yes, oh my,
<v Speaker 2>oh my goodness, oh my goodness, gracious me, but this
<v Speaker 2>is going to be trouble.
<v Speaker 1>This is going to be trouble, he says, fucking unwrapping.
<v Speaker 2>I'll just I'll give you this view from here, so
<v Speaker 2>you see what I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that's a thick stack. Maybe it's it's trouble already.
<v Speaker 1>Short of pancakes. That's the that's the most intriguing stack
<v Speaker 1>you can put in front of your boy. We got
<v Speaker 1>we got mags, we got mags. Fucking news stamp this
<v Speaker 1>Christmas season. Yes, show me that yellowed have this one.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go. Oh, the nineteen eighty four year in wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>This is called on the cover. This is going to
<v Speaker 2>be necessary. This is going.
<v Speaker 1>To tell us about it. What comes to mind?
<v Speaker 2>Well, this is I mean, okay, so this this was
<v Speaker 2>such a you know, I knew I knew when Hogan
<v Speaker 2>came back in w CW, I knew he was going
<v Speaker 2>to win this award. I knew he was going to
<v Speaker 2>win this award, and so I I looked long and
<v Speaker 2>hard for this magazine and I did find it, and
<v Speaker 2>I used to have it. So I was, uh, this
<v Speaker 2>is this is just warm and fuzzies. And I think
<v Speaker 2>we've talked about it before. But he wins Wrestler of
<v Speaker 2>the Year. And the best part is, like nobody in
<v Speaker 2>the history of the After mag Awards ever got a
<v Speaker 2>trophy like that. He's got a plaque. Yeah, you get
<v Speaker 2>a plaque, and he gets a plaque and a fucking trophy,
<v Speaker 2>all right, because that's how he rolls, because he's haul Cogan.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know what I see when I see that
<v Speaker 1>magazine cover always is the fact that you know, Vince
<v Speaker 1>Bard the After Mags from Ringside, photograpsography and credentially.
<v Speaker 2>This is glory, this is these are all PWI issues wonderful.
<v Speaker 2>So we got October ninety three, here this one. See
<v Speaker 2>how different?
<v Speaker 1>See how different the Hogan picture looks When he's not
<v Speaker 1>with WW and they don't have access to the portrait, you.
<v Speaker 2>Get all these like these random crappy you know, half
<v Speaker 2>assed journalists photo dragonic distance, right zooming in, cropping, those things.
<v Speaker 2>I've never seen this one before. This is what month
<v Speaker 2>is this? Who's better? Seawan or Brett? What's the question from? When?
<v Speaker 1>I mean?
<v Speaker 2>WW?
<v Speaker 1>This is oh this from April ninety six, that's a
<v Speaker 1>good time to ask the question. WW World titled Turmoil.
<v Speaker 1>The question is right there on top there who is better?
<v Speaker 1>Teeny tiny at the top Breton Shawn. Massive cover of
<v Speaker 1>the Big Gold with for all.
<v Speaker 2>You ladies out there, a full color centerfold of the
<v Speaker 2>one two three kid. That's what we fucking want. This
<v Speaker 2>issue is July nineteen eighty seven.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>On the cover, oh Man, Steamboat and Savage. Look at
<v Speaker 1>that even wrestling, we can end this feud. Look at
<v Speaker 1>Ricky Crank. We're not chinlock. And on the back a
<v Speaker 1>double feature of VHS cassettes that's the Lords of the
<v Speaker 1>Ring PROG Wrestling Illustrated Lords to the Ring VHS that
<v Speaker 1>I had and watched many times.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of AWA stuff on there.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Forty four ninety five retailing in nineteen eighty seven for
<v Speaker 1>those tapes, that's kind of cheap. Four ninety five.
<v Speaker 2>Think about it. It's usually double that went through it
<v Speaker 2>for the other you know, let's see what do we
<v Speaker 2>have June nineteen ninety five, the nineteen ninety five PWI poll, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>what are they pulling?
<v Speaker 1>Again?
<v Speaker 2>Hogan?
<v Speaker 1>Seven? And again the WWF photos taken from the inside
<v Speaker 1>the crowd ten rows back of a one heart Oh.
<v Speaker 2>In June ninety five, PWY is asking has w c
<v Speaker 2>W surpassed the WWE is number one? I wonder who's
<v Speaker 2>going to ninety five?
<v Speaker 1>And that actually a little premature from Nitro start asking, right, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is from July ninety six. Is sewn Michael's leaving
<v Speaker 1>the WWE in July ninety six, still world champion. They
<v Speaker 1>loved fucking w Yeah, they really did. That was probably
<v Speaker 1>with that show where he left and people thought he
<v Speaker 1>was gonna show up on Nitro and connect. Look at
<v Speaker 1>this one, Hulk Hogan taking on our editors. I'm sure
<v Speaker 1>it did.
<v Speaker 2>I want to know what that's all? That's better?
<v Speaker 1>Watch it.
<v Speaker 2>I can't. I can't, fucking I gotta. I got that
<v Speaker 2>one now. I can't resist that one. It's a press conference,
<v Speaker 2>I guess, a quote unquote press conference.
<v Speaker 1>I want to dig into these so bad. Boss. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know about you, but maybe a new Year's resolution
<v Speaker 1>is we don't find some way to get these into
<v Speaker 1>the hot hands of the Solar system with a little
<v Speaker 1>maybe exclusive commentary.
<v Speaker 2>So this is this is I think an interesting one
<v Speaker 2>to do because this is July nineteen ninety six, So
<v Speaker 2>this is I mean this went to print probably June
<v Speaker 2>ninety six, and that's the year of that's the month
<v Speaker 2>that he would turn on WW. So it's like this
<v Speaker 2>is this came out right around that time, and it's
<v Speaker 2>him as a face to say here Liz Hunter asks
<v Speaker 2>where the fuck Liz Hunter is? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>She used to ask the most probing question. Is he
<v Speaker 1>a real person that I don't know she's a real person.
<v Speaker 2>It's probably not a real names.
<v Speaker 1>No, Brandy Meckinwitz or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>I don't say any Liz Hunter on this on the
<v Speaker 2>on the staff here.
<v Speaker 1>So Brandy Liz Hunter was just Carney for Lady Hunter.
<v Speaker 2>There we go. Lu Fez once told me that the
<v Speaker 2>toughest part about being established wrestler was having so many
<v Speaker 2>enemies built up over the years and having them all
<v Speaker 2>gunning for you at once. Are you finding that to
<v Speaker 2>be true? Well, lis wast see it. I'm making new
<v Speaker 2>enemies as I go along, don't Kevin Sullivan, I barely
<v Speaker 2>even knew him. Before that, please the Giant orn Anderson.
<v Speaker 2>I came after Flair, he didn't come after me and
<v Speaker 2>asked for one man Gang and the others in the
<v Speaker 2>Dungeon of Doom and the horsemen. They just got in
<v Speaker 2>the way and I'm used to it bringing them all down.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, pretty much spoiler alert as far as w CW
<v Speaker 1>back then.
<v Speaker 2>But your feud with the Giant is in a way,
<v Speaker 2>this is Dave Rosenbaum now asking connected to an old
<v Speaker 2>feud because he says he wants to finish what Andre
<v Speaker 2>the Giant couldn't. And with Flair, well, you wrestled him
<v Speaker 2>years ago in the w WE. It really seems as
<v Speaker 2>if you're tyed together some loose ends here. What are
<v Speaker 2>you see him getting ready to retire? No way, brother,
<v Speaker 2>I'm having too much fun, dude. Yes, I asked the
<v Speaker 2>question like you didn't even ask. We made that up
<v Speaker 2>about Hull. He didn't in the fun of him. Then
<v Speaker 2>in his first you said, don't geting ready to retire? Brother, dude.
<v Speaker 1>Seriously, this is actual proof in the wild that he
<v Speaker 1>answers the question with a question.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'll tell you what. This is actual proof in
<v Speaker 2>the wild that even because he wasn't. There was no
<v Speaker 2>press conference that even the fucking that even afternoon. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>that this ship? That what he was like that?
<v Speaker 1>Who going to be like, what do you mean by
<v Speaker 1>that question?
<v Speaker 2>Well? What are you talking about? Due?
<v Speaker 1>Why don't you ask what you really want to say?
<v Speaker 2>Exactly?
<v Speaker 3>He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carno
<v Speaker 3>and JP Sorrow.
<v Speaker 1>It's a lapsed fan wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>Podcast before again another ninety six issues. This is January
<v Speaker 2>ninety six and they're already talking about look at this,
<v Speaker 2>it's full scale war.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I remember that cover. Well yeah ww firs
<v Speaker 1>WCW tremendous, which is.
<v Speaker 2>Just betterus that Diesel is across from Hogan.
<v Speaker 1>I know we got Diesel. Hogan, Sean Sting, Brett Savage
<v Speaker 1>sounds like a super Bowl card to me.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, honestly, wow, Hogan Nash, Yeah maybe maybe n
<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you what it might have. It might have
<v Speaker 2>It might have sold a house, I'll tell you that.
<v Speaker 2>But it certainly wouldn't have been all.
<v Speaker 1>It would have allowed Kevin Nash to buy a house.
<v Speaker 1>That's true.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this is this is weird. There is a November
<v Speaker 2>ninety six issue I read this one out loud, so
<v Speaker 2>you can sure, because.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know the war to end all wars, how
<v Speaker 1>I'd beat Sean Michaels by the Giant, How I'd beat
<v Speaker 1>the Giant by Seawn Michaels.
<v Speaker 3>What.
<v Speaker 1>There's no way that, I mean what there had to
<v Speaker 1>be something to that, because I don't think WWA would
<v Speaker 1>take too kindly to them putting words in Shawn Michael's mouth?
<v Speaker 1>Did they Did he actually do that? That's one thing
<v Speaker 1>that k fabe in interview. It's another k fabe a
<v Speaker 1>by line column, as if Sean wrote it.
<v Speaker 2>Right, I know, that's what. It's so fucking weird, like
<v Speaker 2>did this actually like? Also? Whoever? Like honestly, you know
<v Speaker 2>what's funny? In all, in all my years, in all
<v Speaker 2>my years as a wrestling fan, never once did I
<v Speaker 2>ever think about the matchup between Paul White and Shawn Michaels.
<v Speaker 1>Never. I've never even talked about the furthest thing from
<v Speaker 1>my mind. I mean, it's you know, they were champions
<v Speaker 1>at the same time in ninety six. That's true. This
<v Speaker 1>is what Sean has to say. He says, this is
<v Speaker 1>how I would beat the Giant by Shawn Michaels. First thing,
<v Speaker 1>I don't mind telling. I don't mind making a habit
<v Speaker 1>of boasting about who I could beat. Yes, you did
<v Speaker 1>write you do make a habit of been what are
<v Speaker 1>you talking about? But I also but I'm also not
<v Speaker 1>one to avoid a direct question. If you know how
<v Speaker 1>I would If you want to know how I would
<v Speaker 1>do against the giant, I'll tell you, and I'll hold
<v Speaker 1>nothing back. When I wrestle the giant, I take on
<v Speaker 1>anyone if they have the guts in town to become
<v Speaker 1>a WW wrestler.
<v Speaker 2>Or he's not.
<v Speaker 1>He's not one to avoid a question. He's just one
<v Speaker 1>to avoid a direct answer.
<v Speaker 2>He's once someone might just avoid questions altogether. When I
<v Speaker 2>look across the ring, I don't see the size of
<v Speaker 2>a man. I don't care whether he's six feet, seven
<v Speaker 2>feet or eight feet wrestling it's not about size. It's
<v Speaker 2>about preparation. I'll tell hi vinsfect Man that, because I'm
<v Speaker 2>pretty sure he thinks it's about size. When most people
<v Speaker 2>think of preparation, they think immediately, immediately, think of learning
<v Speaker 2>how to apply holes and execute. Now, Vince wrote this, Actually,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, Vince wrote this, and most people will think
<v Speaker 2>of preparational the immediately think of learning how to apply
<v Speaker 2>holes and execute maneuvers.
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes he'd say nineteen seventy eight TV exactly right.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, look another one. This is from ninety four. Now
<v Speaker 2>WWE versus WW Which is better?
<v Speaker 1>I mean that one must have sold copies Sting versus Yoko,
<v Speaker 1>Vader versus Razor, and Dustin Rhodes versus the Undertaker.
<v Speaker 2>Is it kind of a little backwards? You know, I'd
<v Speaker 2>put I'd put Vader with Yokozun. Huh, I'd put Sting
<v Speaker 2>with Undertakers with Undertaker, and I'd put uh Dustin with Razor. Yeah, totely.
<v Speaker 1>Razors the icy champ.
<v Speaker 2>I had this one. I had any any any wrestling
<v Speaker 2>magazine with Hulkogan on the cover that I found that.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I always come at home a June ninety four.
<v Speaker 2>Oh sure, that was on the set of Paradise set
<v Speaker 2>and Paradise for sure, Ogan and Sting with paint locking
<v Speaker 2>up on a boat in the ocean. Yes. Uh oh,
<v Speaker 2>fifteen years. This is a fifteen year. This is September
<v Speaker 2>ninety four, fifteen years of p W. I there we go.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, look at all the different Hogans.
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember that enough.
<v Speaker 1>It's just one, but might as well be all of
<v Speaker 1>them in white trunks.
<v Speaker 2>Ooh, I don't remember this one either. February ninety five,
<v Speaker 2>w CW Civil War Will Exit WWE stars spark a
<v Speaker 2>revolution talking about bringing over all of Hogan's cronies.
<v Speaker 1>Bubba yeap honky tonk Duggan. Oh yeah, they sparked a revolution,
<v Speaker 1>all right. It just sparked joints as far as I
<v Speaker 1>could tell.
<v Speaker 2>Yeh, here's another. It's another Hogan. These are all gonna
<v Speaker 2>be great down the line, on the complete Hull Cogan.
<v Speaker 2>These are gonna be fucking fantastic. Somebody's looking out for
<v Speaker 2>your boys. Pro Wrestling Illustrated Presents Wrestling Classic Hulka Mania
<v Speaker 2>reborn September nineteen ninety three.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's a sweet one.
<v Speaker 2>That's yep. This is all Hogan. This is PWY all
<v Speaker 2>on Hogan. I guess, well except for now Carrie Van
<v Speaker 2>Eric and open the pages and there are people in there.
<v Speaker 1>Their sting.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Hogan topples Andre and WrestleMania three. Yeah, all that
<v Speaker 2>stuff sting, yep, sting Luger. This is April nineteen ninety
<v Speaker 2>three cover the Steiner Brothers. Oh wow, thanks, I've ever
<v Speaker 2>seen that one. Yeah me, neither.
<v Speaker 1>Everything you've always wanted to know about wrestling's what top
<v Speaker 1>tag team, most awesome tag team, that's awesome. Okay, that's
<v Speaker 1>put on by the fans.
<v Speaker 2>And the subheadline says, here is the comeback gets rough.
<v Speaker 2>This is not the WWE you remember, Bob Beckland. And lastly,
<v Speaker 2>we have the nineteen ninety three Year in Wrestling issue here.
<v Speaker 2>I've actually never seen this one because I had ninety
<v Speaker 2>two and then I had ninety four and I never
<v Speaker 2>got ninety three, So this will actually be a fun read.
<v Speaker 1>I always loved how PWI forced Memphis and what Lawler
<v Speaker 1>was up to, and he took coverage of real territories.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yep, I know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, oh yeah, in case you forgot, Jerry Lawler
<v Speaker 1>wrestled Mabel in front of two hundred people and you know,
<v Speaker 1>Nashville or something.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, if you had, I'm gonna we'll go through the
<v Speaker 2>awards here and we'll do it this way. So Rookie
<v Speaker 2>of the Year, Okay, I'm gonna let you guess who
<v Speaker 2>won the Coles, the Tag Team, the Coles, the head Hunters,
<v Speaker 2>Robbie Eagle or Vampire Warrior Vampire Warrior. Yes, you're right,
<v Speaker 2>Vampire Warrior one Rookie of the Year, looking ever the impiro, subtle,
<v Speaker 2>no gangrel, looking very subtle and not crazy at all.
<v Speaker 1>Definitely not looking like someone who's trying to look like
<v Speaker 1>his wife. Sure certainly someone who I would feel very
<v Speaker 1>comfortable waking up next to.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad you said that, because that was my next comment.
<v Speaker 2>Inspirational Wrestler of the Year, Lex Luger, the Kid, Brutus,
<v Speaker 2>Beefcake or Cactus Jack. Did you list those one more time? Yes,
<v Speaker 2>Lex Luger, The Kid, Brutus, Beefcake or Cactus Jack. Inspirational
<v Speaker 2>Wrestler of the Year Kid, Cactus Jack, Cactus Jack well Inland.
<v Speaker 2>Apparently he lost. The Kid lost by over one thousand votes. Unfortunately,
<v Speaker 2>it's crazy about I don't know how accurate. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know how I know, I know I listened. I think
<v Speaker 2>the kid had a good year. But on Bruce Beak,
<v Speaker 2>I think though, coming after you know, having his face
<v Speaker 2>smashed in nineteen ninety and coming to national inspirational Luger, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. If he had won the title, he'd
<v Speaker 2>be inspirational, but he didn't, so most improve Wrestler of
<v Speaker 2>the Year The Kid Yokozuna, Brian Lee or Tanka?
<v Speaker 1>What was the first one?
<v Speaker 2>The Kid? The Kid Yoko Zuna is the most improved
<v Speaker 2>wrestler by nine. He got twenty one fifty six votes
<v Speaker 2>compared to twelve thousand, five hundred eighteen votes to the
<v Speaker 2>Kid the first runner up since doesn't well, I was
<v Speaker 2>for some reason, I was thinking ninety four, not ninety three. Sure.
<v Speaker 1>For some reason, I was thinking it was two years
<v Speaker 1>after yoko debut, not one.
<v Speaker 2>Oh. Sure. Come Back of the Year we have Lex Luger,
<v Speaker 2>Paul Roma, Brutus Beefcake, and Rick Flair Brutus Beefcake. Lex Luger.
<v Speaker 2>What twenty which is I guess? Yeah? He I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I guess he came back at January. In January he
<v Speaker 2>came back to the company, or he came back to
<v Speaker 2>WWE rather not to the company, came back he'd never
<v Speaker 2>been there before. Well, I mean, I mean, I guess
<v Speaker 2>come back after like not wrestling the Motorcycle Acts. Yeah, yeah, right,
<v Speaker 2>twenty one und nineteen votes to thirteen seven hundred and
<v Speaker 2>sixty one votes. Manager of the Year we have mister
<v Speaker 2>Fuji Harley Race, Jim Cornett and Tammy Fitch, not Sitch,
<v Speaker 2>but Fitch with an F Corny Cornett absolutely by a
<v Speaker 2>small margin, less than a thousand votes. He beats Harley Race,
<v Speaker 2>the first runner up. Look at this, fucking I mean
<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ. Because he's in THEE. He can't they can't
<v Speaker 2>give him a picture. They give like a picture from
<v Speaker 2>when he was like fifteen years old. What is that is?
<v Speaker 2>Freshman year yearbook picture. Jesus Christ. Feud of the Year
<v Speaker 2>Cactus Jack versus Vader, Tony Anthony versus tracy' smothers. That's
<v Speaker 2>the one that's it right there. Get that smoking Mountain
<v Speaker 2>feud Rick Rude versus Dustin Rhodes, Brett Hart versus Jerry Lawler,
<v Speaker 2>Cactus Invader Brett Hard versus Jerry Lawler No. Number two.
<v Speaker 1>There's a Jerry Lawler glaze. Okay, the constant Jerry Lawler glaze,
<v Speaker 1>the the fucking twenty year alliance between Jerry Lawler and
<v Speaker 1>the PWI. After Max After still saying, you've got Andy
<v Speaker 1>Kaufman the gig.
<v Speaker 2>Of course, I'm sure he did. Most Popular Wrestler of
<v Speaker 2>the Year sting Dustin Rhodes, Brett Hart or Lex Luger
<v Speaker 2>any three most popularly three. You know, I want to
<v Speaker 2>say Lex, but he had half the year as a
<v Speaker 2>heel Lex Lex Luger. Yep, you are correct. It's kind
<v Speaker 2>of funny, given now how everything kind of ended up
<v Speaker 2>with Brett Hart, you know. I mean there wasn't a
<v Speaker 2>big discrepancy in the votes, only about sixteen hundred.
<v Speaker 1>Pretty wild how you can go from absolutely universally despise
<v Speaker 1>to most beloved in one years just by slamming a
<v Speaker 1>fat guy. Most Hated Wrestler of the Year Vader, Yoko Zuna,
<v Speaker 1>Shawn Michaels or Jarence Lawler, Jerry Lawler, Jarence Lawler.
<v Speaker 2>You're right, You're right.
<v Speaker 1>Let's keep sending the hardware to the the mance the
<v Speaker 1>Memphis Mans right next to the barbecue smoker getting close here.
<v Speaker 2>Match of the Year Cactus Jack versus Big Van Vader
<v Speaker 2>from Halloween, Havoc Steiner Brothers versus Heavenly Bodies from Summer Slam.
<v Speaker 2>That's that one's for Corney too, okay. Rick Rude versus
<v Speaker 2>Dustin rhodes At from Beach Blast, and Shawn Michaels versus
<v Speaker 2>Marty Jeannetti Monday Night.
<v Speaker 1>Raw Party won the belt. Yeah, I think so. I
<v Speaker 1>would give it to Vader and Cactus.
<v Speaker 2>They gave it to Sean Michaels and Martin Jennetti, Money
<v Speaker 2>Net Raw whatever Tag Team of the Year, Hollywood Blondes,
<v Speaker 2>Heavenly Bodies, Money Incorporated, or the Steiner Brothers Steers Steiner Brothers.
<v Speaker 2>You were correct. And lastly, here we go Wrestler of
<v Speaker 2>the Year, Seawn Michaels, Brett Hart, Big von Vodter, and
<v Speaker 2>Yokozuna Umvotter Vodder. You are correct, Big von Big von Voter.
<v Speaker 2>Is this what it went to press before he lost
<v Speaker 2>to Flair? Here we go, big glass of Big von
<v Speaker 2>Vodder and a big glass of fucking nostalgia courtesy of
<v Speaker 2>the homie Tim. Tim were rooting for you. Thank you
<v Speaker 2>always deeply for keeping us in your thoughts as you
<v Speaker 2>go through what you're going through. Glad to be of assistance,
<v Speaker 2>and that's all we can do. Let's just keep casting.
<v Speaker 2>So we'll do that, and we'll do that with the
<v Speaker 2>know with the comfort knowing that folks like yourself aren't
<v Speaker 2>hesitant to add some things to throw on the fire
<v Speaker 2>that burns at the heart of this engine or unwrappening
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