Jerry Lawler

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Jerry Lawler in 2019.

Jerry Lawler in 2019.

Data
Surname Jerry O'Neil Lawler
Ring name Hawaiian Flash
Jerry Lawler
Additions to names "The King"
height 183 cm
Fighting weight 107 kg
birth November 29, 1949
Memphis, Tennessee
Trained by Jackie Fargo
debut 1970
Website kingjerrylawler.com

Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American wrestler and ring commentator who currently works for the wrestling market leader WWE .

Career

Beginnings

Lawler made his debut in wrestling in 1970. In the early 1970s, he and his partner Jim White won the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship .

AWA / CWA

In 1974 he began a feud with Jackie Fargo in the American Wrestling Association, which led to a match for the title of AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. Lawler won this match. While working for the Continental Wrestling Association in 1979, he held the title of CWA World Champion .

During the excursion of the anarcho-entertainer Andy Kaufman into wrestling, Lawler delivered a one-year (as it later turned out: staged) feud with him , which brought her to the David Letterman show, among other things . This was later filmed with Lawler in the film The Moon Man.

National Wrestling Alliance

On March 7, 1983 Lawler was allowed to win the title AWA International Champion and in 1984 he was NWA Mid America Champion . In 1985 he went to Japan , where he won the NWA Polynesian Pacific Title in 1986 . Lawler went back to the USA and became AWA International Champion there . In 1988 he was allowed to win the title of AWA World Heavyweight Champion . From 1991 to 1992 he was with the United States Wrestling Association , where Lawler formed a team with Jeff Jarrett . With the Moondogs , the team had a feud program for the USWA tag team title. This was from the Pro Wrestling Illustrated as a feud of the year 1992 award.

WWE

After Lawler joined what was then WWF , he feuded with Bret Hart and the rest of the Hart family from 1993 to 1995 . In between, this feud had to be interrupted as Lawler was charged with sexual harassment and suspended by the WWF.

WrestleMania X was the first major event where Lawler acted as a commentator. A brief feud then began with Roddy Piper . Around the turn of the year 1994/1995 he was also active in Smokey Mountain Wrestling , but continued to comment for the WWF.

In the summer of 1996, Lawler was penned in a feud with Jake Roberts , which in retrospect was viewed as very distasteful because it addressed Roberts' real alcohol problem in front of the camera. In 1997, Lawler started a real-life feud with Paul Heyman on a RAW show in which he claimed Heyman and his ECW wrestlers did not have the courage to step into the ring against wrestlers from the WWF and all that Heyman and the ECW could produce is just junk anyway. During the broadcast, an extremely angry Paul Heyman called and accepted the challenge. In a later RAW recording in the Hammerstein Ball Room in New York City , Paul Heyman and some of his wrestlers suddenly appeared and competed against wrestlers from the RAW roster. In doing so, they advertised their first PPV. (For the latter, Heyman had been given permission McMahon because it initially intended to incorporate the ECW as a junior league of his WWF and the corresponding contracts had prepared.) A little later appeared Lawler at ECW event and reached there after a match Tommy Dreamer at .

Lawler with friend and commentator Jim Ross in 2007

Starting in 1998, Lawler's matches became rarer and he focused on commenting. From 1999 he became a co-commentator for Jim Ross . In February 2001, Lawler resigned from WWF because of the dismissal of his wife, Stacy Carter, who was also employed there, and continued to work for various independent doctorates. The former ECW owner Paul Heyman was installed in his place . After divorcing Stacy Carter, Lawler made his comeback as a commentator on the WWF in November 2001.

In 2003, the Raw commentary team (Lawler and Jim Ross) feuded that of the WWE B show Sunday Night Heat ( Jonathan Coachman and Al Snow ). In 2006 Lawler had a feud with Tazz . This ended with a loss in a match at ECW One Night Stand that same year.

On March 31, 2007, Lawler was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by William Shatner .

From November 2010 Lawler was again increasingly active as a wrestler and denied feuds against The Miz and Michael Cole . In January 2012 he took part in the traditional Royal Rumble match.

Heart attack in RAW

Lawler suddenly collapsed during the match Kane and Daniel Bryan against the Prime Time Players (Darren Young & Titus O'Neil ) on September 10, 2012 at RAW. It was later revealed that he had a heart attack and that it was not a storyline . A few minutes earlier he was still active in the ring.

Lawler had to be resuscitated with a defibrillator in the backstage area during the running show and then operated on in the hospital. During this procedure, a stent and an intra-aortic balloon pump were used. According to the computed tomographic examination , no long-term damage to Lawler's brain is feared, which was previously speculated about. In an interview with his colleague Michael Cole at RAW on September 24, 2012, he said that “the doctors will determine when he will return”.

On October 30, 2012, during the RAW edition, WWE announced that Lawler would return to the shows as a commentator on November 12. Whether he will appear again as an active wrestler is still open.

Brian Christopher Lawler , the son of Jerry Lawler

Private life

Lawler has been married three times: The first time to Kay Williams, with whom he has three children. Among other things, Brian Christopher Lawler , best known by his ring name Grandmaster Sexay , who was also active as a wrestler. The second marriage was to Paula Jean Carruth, whom he married on Valentine's Day 1982. On September 29, 2000, Lawler married his long-time girlfriend Stacy "The Kat" Carter, who also starred as his girlfriend in the movie The Moon Man . Less than a year later, on July 21, 2001, the two divorced. His cousin is former wrestler and WWF Intercontinental Champion The Honky Tonk Man .

successes

title

  • 1 × CWA Heavyweight Champion
  • Jersey All Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × Jersey All Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Champion
  • Maryland Championship Wrestling
  • 1 × Maryland Championship Wrestling Heavyweight Champion
  • 1 × Maryland Championship Wrestling Tag Team Champion with The Bruiser
  • Memphis Championship Wrestling
  • 3 × Memphis Championship Wrestling Southern Heavyweight Champion
  • Memphis Power Pro Wrestling
  • 1 × Memphis Power Pro Wrestling Tag Team Champion without a partner
  • 3 × NWA Mid America Heavyweight Champion
  • 1 × NWA Polynesian Pacific Heavyweight Champion
  • 4 × NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Champion
  • 2 × Smoky Mountain Wrestling Heavyweight Champion
  • 02 × USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion
  • 02 × USWA Texas Heavyweight Champion
  • 28 × USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion
  • 06 × USWA World Tag Team Champion 2 × with Bill Dundee, 4 × with Jeff Jarrett
  • World class wrestling
  • 3 × World Class World Heavyweight Champion

Awards

Books

  • Jerry Lawler: It's Good to Be the King ... Sometimes. (Autobiography). 2003, ISBN 0-7434-5767-6 .

Individual evidence

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  4. Michael Cole interviews Jerry “The King” Lawler at RAW ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on de.wwe.sevenload.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.wwe.sevenload.com
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