30 Week Journey: Wrestlemania XVI (2000)




The Lapsed Fan show

Summary: Reenter the new millennium with The Lapsed Fan’s deep dive into WrestleMania 2000, as the TLF 30-week, 30-WrestleMania journey rumbles along.<br><br>Hosts Jack Encarnacao and JP Sarro discuss the first – and hopefully last – Fatal Four Way main event in Mania history, as Triple H announces in no uncertain terms he’ll be the top guy in the organization when he becomes the first heel to go over in a Mania show-closing match.<br><br>Get on board as the co-chairmen dissect:<br><br>- Ice T keeping it real by telling the crowd to “grab” their “bitches” (pre Law &amp; Order)<br>- The post-Russo overcompensating by the creative team to keep a risqué flavor about the product<br>- Undertaker becomes a chatty, mortal biker overnight<br>- Did the Rock miss his chance at a WrestleMania moment here?<br>- First Mania as a public company for the WWE<br>- Pete Gas gets color<br>- Head Cheese<br>- Welcome to WrestleMania Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dudleys, Hardys, and other assorted key players.<br><br>Plus another sterling installment from Dave Meltzer on the state of the industry in 2000 – WWE’s most lucrative year – as the wheels begin to fall off at WCW.<br><br>Get Lapsed across the face as a one-of-a-kind accounting of WrestleMania and the WWE continues with installment 16 of the TLF journey, available now for download!