Information about Jerry Lawler
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| Ring name(s) | Jerry "The King" Lawler |
| Billed height | {}[] |
| Billed weight | 243 lb (0 kg)[1][0] |
| Born | November 29 1949 Memphis, Tennessee[0] |
| Resides | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Billed from | Memphis, Tennessee<ref name="WWEProfile" /> |
| Trained by | Jackie Fargo[3] |
| Debut | 1970[0] |
Jerry Lawler has the distinction of having the most wrestling championship reigns of all time. He has won a total of 126 titles in his career, including 1 reign as AWA World Heavyweight Champion and 30 reigns as AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion. Lawler held the latter championship another 13 times when the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) controlled it.
Professional wrestling career
1970s - 1990s
As a young adult, Lawler had a job as a disk jockey, which garnered the attention of local wrestling promoter Aubrey Griffith.[0] The two made an agreement in which Lawler would help give Griffith free publicity in exchange for free wrestling training.[0] Lawler debuted in 1970 and won his first championship in September 1971 by winning a battle royal.[0] He soon won the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship under the managerial service of Sam Bass with partner Jim White.[0] In 1974, Lawler began feuding with Jackie Fargo, who had been his trainer and mentor. This led to a match for the Southern Heavyweight Championship. On July 24 1974, Lawler won the belt and the title of "King of Memphis."[0][3] While he began his career as a heel, Lawler became a face after splitting from Bass at the end of 1974.[0] On November 12 1979, while working in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), Lawler defeated Billy Graham to become the CWA World Champion.[0] In 1980, his career was put on hold due to a broken leg, but he returned to the ring after several months.[0]In 1982, Lawler had a notorious feud with comedian Andy Kaufman.[0] At the time, Kaufman wrestled women as part of his skits and had declared himself the Intergender Heavyweight Champion.[0] On April 5, Lawler, who had taken exception to the skits, wrestled Kaufman in Memphis.[0] During the course of the match, Lawler delivered two piledrivers to his opponent, sending him to the hospital.[0] On July 29, Jerry Lawler slapped Kauffman in the face on a episode Late Night with David Letterman.[0][0] Kaufman responded by throwing his coffee on Lawler.[0] The event was later revealed to be worked.
In 1983, Lawler won the AWA International Championship by defeating Austin Idol on March 7.[0] He also defeated Ken Patera on July 25 to begin his second reign as the International Champion.[0] Lawler became the NWA Mid America Champion on April 12 1984 when he defeated Randy Savage for the title.[0] In 1985, Lawler traveled to Japan, where he won the Polynesian Pacific title on January 25 1986.[0] He later returned to the United States, where he defeated Bill Dundee on July 29 1986 to begin a new reign as the AWA International Champion.[0] Lawler feuded with Tommy Rich, Austin Idol and Paul E. Dangerously throughout early 1987.[0] The animosity began after controversy over a AWA World Championship title shot involving Nick Bockwinkel.[0] During the feud, the trio defeated Lawler in a steel cage match and cut his hair, which caused a riot in the Mid-South Coliseum.[0] Lawler won his first world title, the AWA World Heavyweight Championship from Curt Hennig.[0] During his reign, he feuded with World Class Championship Wrestling's Champion Kerry Von Erich.[0] Lawler defeated Von Erich on December 15 1989 at Superclash III to unify the two titles.[0] Soon after, Lawler's issues with Verne Gagne led to his departure from the AWA.[0] In 1991 and 1992, while working in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA), Lawler teamed with Jeff Jarrett in a feud against The Moondogs over the USWA Tag Team Championship.[0] The feud was named Pro Wrestling Illustrated's feud of the year in 1992.[0]
World Wrestling Federation
Lawler began his WWF career as an announcer on WWF Superstars of Wrestling.[0] From 1993 to 1995, Lawler feuded with Bret Hart and the rest of the Hart family. The feud began at King of the Ring 1993 when Lawler interrupted Hart's victory ceremony and attacked Bret.[0][4] Lawler claimed that he was the only true king in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and the two were scheduled to wrestle at SummerSlam 1993 to settle the dispute. When the event arrived, however, Lawler came to the ring on crutches and claimed that he could not wrestle because of injuries suffered in a car accident.[5] Hart faced Lawler's "court jester," Doink the Clown instead, and beat him by submission. Lawler then attacked Hart, revealing that he was not injured.[5] Hart defeated Lawler by submission but refused to release the Sharpshooter. As a result, the referee reversed the decision and awarded the title of "Undisputed King of the World Wrestling Federation" to Lawler.[6]The Hart Family (Bret, Owen, Bruce and Keith) were scheduled to face Lawler and three other wrestlers in an elimination match at Survivor Series 1993, but Shawn Michaels had to take Lawler's place because Lawler was facing legal troubles.[0][7] Lawler did not face Bret Hart at another pay-per-view until the first show, when he beat Hart after Hakushi and his manager Shinja interfered.[8] This set up a "Kiss My Foot" match at King of the Ring 1995, which Bret won.[4] As a result, Lawler was forced to kiss Bret's feet. The feud took one final turn when Lawler introduced his "dentist" Isaac Yankem, D.D.S.. After Hart defeated Yankem by disqualification,[9] however, the feud quickly disappeared.
In the fall of 1994, Lawler initiated a feud with Doink the Clown. Lawler popped the balloons carried by Doink's midget sidekick, Dink.[10] After Doink and Dink retaliated, Lawler introduced a midget sidekick of his own, who he named Queasy.[10] In the following weeks, Doink added two more sidekicks, Wink and Pink, while Lawler introduced Sleazy and Cheesy.[10] This led to an elimination match at Survivor Series 1994, which Lawler's team won.[11] After the match, however, Lawler's team turned on him, joining with Doink's team to attack Lawler.[12]
In late 1994 and early 1995, Lawler wrestled briefly in Smoky Mountain Wrestling.[0] He defeated Tony Anthony for the promotion's top title in January 1995.[0] By 1996, Lawler was back in the WWF, feuding with Jake Roberts after making fun of Roberts' drug and alcohol problems.[0] The two met in a match at SummerSlam 1996, which Lawler won. After the match, Lawler poured Jim Beam whiskey down Roberts' throat.[13]
In 1997, Lawler became heavily involved in the working relationship between the WWF and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). In interviews and commentary, he referred to the promotion as "Extremely Crappy Wrestling."[0] His frequent insults toward ECW eventually led to a match with ECW wrestler Tommy Dreamer at ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997, which Dreamer won.[14]
At SummerSlam 2000, The King wrestled Tazz in defense of his commentating partner Jim Ross.[0] With the creation of the XFL in 2001, Lawler was given the job as an announcer for the new football league.[0] Lawler claims that he never wanted to announce for the XFL, but that he agreed to it after Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn asked him.[14]
Independent circuit
In February 2001, Lawler's wife Stacy Carter was released by the WWF, and Lawler quit the company in protest.[15][14] Vince McMahon decided to end her angle with the Right to Censor, which led to her release.[14] McMahon also believed that if she was given more airtime, Carter might become impossible to work with due to her backstage attitude.[14] During this time, Lawler made appearances on the independent circuit in both Australia and North America.[0] After divorcing Carter in November, he returned to the WWF that same year.[0][0]World Wrestling Entertainment
Since November 2001, Jerry Lawler has been part of the WWE Raw announce team, opposite Jim Ross. He has had sporadic matches with up-and-coming Raw superstars, especially Randy Orton.
In 2003, Raw's announce team of Lawler and Jim Ross feuded with Sunday Night Heat's team of Jonathan Coachman and Al Snow.[0] At Unforgiven 2003, Lawler and Ross lost a match against Coachman and Snow, thus losing their right to do commentary on Raw.[0] In a rematch, however, Ross defeated Coachman, winning Lawler and Ross their position back.[0]
In June 2006, ECW invaded WWE again. ECW and WWE went head to head for several weeks on Raw, which included the Smackdown! superstars. This created tension between the Raw and Smackdown announce teams. Tazz insulted and criticized Jim Ross until Lawler came to Ross' defense. The feud concluded when Tazz and Lawler faced each other in a match at One Night Stand 2006, which Tazz won in only 30 seconds by making Lawler pass out to the Tazzmission.[17]
In July 2006, Randy Orton began a feud with Hulk Hogan. Lawler attacked Orton in defense of Hogan,[18] which set up a match between them on Raw.[19] Orton defeated Lawler after a low-blow and an RKO.[20]
In 2007, Lawler was confronted by Chris Masters, Edge and Eric Bischoff. In August 2007, King Booker claimed to be the only one entitled to be known as "King".[21] After being defeated by Booker in the ring,[22] Lawler was supposed to be forced to crown his opponent at an August 13 show in Madison Square Garden.[23] During the ceremony, however, Lawler announced Triple H as a new opponent for Booker, leading to a worked brawl between Lawler and Booker.[23]
Non-wrestling endeavors
Lawler has created some musical recordings. Among these are two late-70s singles: "Cadillac Man/Memphis", and "Bad News". During his feud with manager Jimmy Hart (Jerry Lawler is a factor for "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart entering professional wrestling. Lawler wanted to record a wrestling album with him singing and, since they had gone to school together, he called Hart and asked him to be a part of it) in the mid-80s, Hart became known as "The Wimp", a nickname given to him by Lawler and chanted by fans. Hart was the subject of the song "Wimpbusters", which was sung by Lawler to the tune of the popular hit Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.. A music video was also made, featuring Lawler, legendary announcer Lance Russell, and wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Jimmy Valiant, Dutch Mantel, Tommy Rich, and Rufus R. Jones, along with footage of "The King" beating Hart and his "First Family." A very young Brian Christopher also made an appearance as a young child being bullied, and another child is seen wearing a replica of Tully Blanchard's West Texas State jersey. He also recorded a CD titled "Memphis' Other King".[24]In 1998, Lawler began filming the movie Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey.[0] The two men allegedly did not get on along on set, which led to an altercation that left Carrey with a neck injury similar to the one suffered by Kaufman.[0]
In 1999, Jerry Lawler ran for mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.[3] His platform focused on making the streets safer for residents, beautifying the city and improving the quality of education.[26] In addition, he vowed to attract businesses to Memphis, improve the flow of traffic, create more parks, and decrease property taxes. [26] Lawler ended up with 11.7% of ballots, beating twelve of the fifteen candidates.[27] Ultimately, however, Mayor Willie Herenton was easily reelected.[27]
Personal life
Lawler has been married three times. He has two children from his marriage to his first wife, Kay.[28] His son Brian, who has previously wrestled in WWE (as "Brian Christopher" and "Grandmaster Sexay"), is now performing in independent promotions. His other son, Kevin, has dabbled in professional wrestling as both a referee and wrestler. In his book "It's Good To Be The King… Sometimes", Jerry Lawler says he believes Kevin's short physical stature has prevented him from reaching success similar to Brian. After divorcing Kay, Lawler married (and later divorced) Paula.[28]He met his third wife, Stacy "The Kat" Carter, at a charity softball game in Memphis, Tennessee on July 23 1989.[29] They married in September 2000.[0] In mid-February 2001, Carter (who was a valet and has also made in-ring appearances) was released by the World Wrestling Federation.[30] He left the company in protest.[30] Carter decided to leave Lawler in July 2001, and they separated not long after.[31] He rejoined WWE in November 2001.[16]
Lawler is the cousin of professional wrestler Roy Farris, better known as The Honky Tonk Man.[33]
In 1993, Lawler was indicted for raping and sodomizing a 15 year old girl, who later admitted she had lied about the incident.[34] Lawler was arrested on March 16 1999 after throwing a ticket at a police officer and running over the officer's foot.[35]
In wrestling
- Finishing and signature moves
- Spike Piledriver
- Diving fist drop from the second turnbuckle (typically preceded by pulling down the single shoulder strap on his attire)
- Elbow Drop
- Brainbuster
- Back Suplex
- Dirty attacks
- Throwing fire[36]
- Foreign objects (including "phantom foreign objects") removed from either his tights or a hidden area in the ring which an opponent sold as if they had been attacked by brass knuckles, or cause a referee to "reprimand" Lawler allowing him to set up yet another dirty move
- Managers
- Sam Bass[0][37]
- Scott Bowden[37]
- Ronnie P. Gossett[37]
- Jimmy Hart[37]
- Jimmy Kent[37]
- Mickey Poole[37]
Championships and accomplishments
| width="50%" align="left" valign="top" |- *AWA World Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Bill Dundee[41][42][43]
- *AWA Southern Tag Team Championship (10 times) - with Gorgeous George, Jr. (2), Bill Dundee (4), Mongolian Stomper (1), Jos LeDuc (1), Austin Idol (1), and Big Bubba (1) [0][47][48][49]
- *CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) (First)[50][51]
- *CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Austin Idol[54][55]
- *CWA Lord of the Ring winner in 1988
- *NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jim White[58]
- *MCW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[62][63][64]
- *MCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with The Bruiser[65][66][67]
- *MCW Southern Heavyweight Championship (2 times) (First)[68][69]
- *NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship (Memphis version) (13 times) (First)[73][74]
- *NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version) (8 times) - with Jim White (4), Tojo Yamamoto (2), Playboy Frazier (1), and The Scorpion (1)[77]
- *NWA Polynesian Pacific Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[78]
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- *NWA All-Star Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[79]
- Power Pro Wrestling
- *SMW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[82][83][84]
- *USWA Heavyweight Championship (2 times)[85][86][87]
- *USWA Tag Team Championship (5 times) - with Jeff Jarrett (3), and Bill Dundee (2)[88][89][90]
- *USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (28 times) (First)[94][95][96]
- *WCWA Heavyweight Championship (3 times)[97][98][99]
- *WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2007)[103][104][105]
- *PWI Most Inspirational Wrestler of the Year award in 1988[106]
- *PWI ranked him # 12 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 1991[107]
- *PWI Feud of the Year award in 1992 with Jeff Jarrett vs. The Moondogs[108]
- *PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year award in 1993[110]
- *PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year award in 1995[110]
- *PWI ranked him #23 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003.[112]
- *PWI ranked him #56 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Bill Dundee in 2003.[113]
- *PWI ranked him #78 of the 100 best tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Jeff Jarrett in 2003.[113]
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- *Feud of the Year award in 1987 vs Austin Idol and Tommy Rich
- *Feud of the Year award in 1992 with Jeff Jarrett vs. The Moondogs
- *Feud of the Year award in 1993 vs. Bret Hart
- *Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)[115]
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Further reading
- Lawler, Jerry (2002). It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes. World Wrestling Entertainment. ISBN 978-0743457682.
External links
- KingLawler.com (Official Site)
- Memphis Wrestling History: Matches, Cards & Results 1962-1988
- WWE Profile
- Jerry Lawler at the Internet Movie Database
- Jerry Lawler at TV.com
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