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’s been 10 weeks in the making on The Lapsed Fan podcast’s 30-week WrestleMania sojourn.

This week hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro blast off into the next decade of the WWF’s 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’ll find on the X, including:

– The winding road to Bret Hart’s crowning – yet, in ways, bittersweet – achievement, as he’s hoisted up on the shoulders of his contemporaries as champion, Vince McMahon beaming below as all is seemingly forgotten

– Little Richard makes surprising noises during “America the Beautiful”

– The Hair Club for Men guy gets a face full of Doink water

– 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

– Owen’s phlegm, and how it symbolized the perfectly-honed Bret v. Owen brother v. brother story line

– Bill Dunn gives Fink a run for his money (not really)

– The Lex Express finally runs out of steam

– The curious, seamless assimilation of Burt Reynolds into the carny wrestling world

– 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’ve got it.