{"id":1532,"date":"2012-04-01T05:52:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:03:27","slug":"the-debut-of-wrestling-aficionados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"The Debut of Wrestling Aficionados!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3983\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1532-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1532-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Wrestling_Aficionados.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1533\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/new_wwf_logo_by_wolfehpants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1533\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/new_wwf_logo_by_wolfehpants-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"New WWF Logo\" title=\"New WWF Logo\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/new_wwf_logo_by_wolfehpants-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/new_wwf_logo_by_wolfehpants.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Effing pandas!<\/p><\/div>It&#8217;s the debut of our new podcast!  WRESTLING AFICIONADOS!!  It&#8217;s our look into the high-flying, action-packed phenomenon of professional wrestling.  Get set for two body-slamming hours with Ben, TV&#8217;s Mr. Neil, and JT from Saskatoon!<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for two solid hours of wrestling commentary!<\/p>\n<p>The first half of our show is all about the golden era of the World Wrestling Federation.  This is the place that gave us grown men who refer to themselves as bulldogs, junkyard dogs, snakes, cats, birds, dragons, gorillas, and weasels!  This ain&#8217;t no wildlife fund.  This is the <strong><em>real<\/em><\/strong> WWF!<\/p>\n<p>The second half is our look at the Monday Night Wars between WWF and WCW.  Two juggernauts square off in one of the most brutal ratings wars in television history.  In the end, the rivalry is almost literally thrown away as WCW goes out of its way to fail again and again.  And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, WWE pisses on the corpes of its former rival by first buying the company and then destroying everything that anyone ever loved about it.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1534\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wwf-wcw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1534\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wwf-wcw.jpg\" alt=\"WWF and WCW\" title=\"WWF World Wrestling Federation and WCW World Championship Wrestling\" width=\"550\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wwf-wcw.jpg 550w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wwf-wcw-300x103.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ultimate showdown of two giants that ended in a whimper.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Topics covered:<\/strong><br \/>\nVerne Gagna&#8217;s ego<br \/>\nHulk Hogan&#8217;s even bigger ego<br \/>\nDOOKY!<br \/>\nARM BAR!<br \/>\nThe Big Gold Belt<br \/>\nThe Dirty Pair and the WWWA<br \/>\nWe got pyrotechnics!<br \/>\nThe evil twin referee<br \/>\nBlack Saturday<br \/>\nBobby Heenan<br \/>\nScary Sherri<br \/>\nDusty and Virgil<br \/>\nTerra Rizin<br \/>\nThe KISS Demon<br \/>\nThe Finger Poke of DOOM<br \/>\nThe West Texas Rednecks<br \/>\nWCW snatches fail from the jaws of success<br \/>\nJT fails at trivia<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rXEzSD1JcZk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0et4dsH5ruU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IRxeFyjJwQ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PhhdNLuLCF4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FfwKfn_bQwQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the debut of our new podcast! 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