Jerry "The King" Lawler - heart attack

[BoysFan4ever]

Wonderful news. I hope when he is able he goes back to commentary.

Thanks.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Probably my final update for this unless something unexpected occurs, but looks like the King is going to be just fine.




Jerry "The King" Lawler is making tremendous progress after suffering a heart attack earlier this week ... and is now awake, alert and responsive ... this according to Lawler's son.

TMZ spoke with Kevin Lawler ... who tells us, "[Jerry] is hooked up to tubes and is still not able to speak … but he's writing stuff on a notepad to talk to people."

"Not just brief notes, but detailed stories which show he knows where he is and what is going on.”

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/12/jerry-the-king-lawler-awake-alert-and-responsive/#ixzz26HS5CUjV
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I read earlier the breathing tube is out and he's able to talk and was laughing and joking around.

 

[bigdnlaca]

Just read that Michael Cole received a phone call from Lawler.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Wrestling fans on the east coast think that wrestlings "high-point" was the "Hulkamania" time frame.

The high-point, at least from what was going on in the ring instead of outside it was from about 1970 until about 1985.

And "The King" was right there in the middle of that.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Wrestling fans on the east coast think that wrestlings "high-point" was the "Hulkamania" time frame.

The high-point, at least from what was going on in the ring instead of outside it was from about 1970 until about 1985.

And "The King" was right there in the middle of that.

I would extend that even farther. Pretty much every wrestler that was in the WWF/E at that time and even in to the mid 90's came through Memphis. Jerry Lawler owned the Memphis wrestling company. Before he became Hulk Hogan he wrestled in Memphis as Terry Boulder.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I would extend that even farther. Pretty much every wrestler that was in the WWF/E at that time and even in to the mid 90's came through Memphis. Jerry Lawler owned the Memphis wrestling company. Before he became Hulk Hogan he wrestled in Memphis as Terry Boulder.

It's not so much that, but Vince clearly used Memphis wrestling as a model to build the company from creating Monday Night Raw to 'sports entertainment' type of angles, to the often times generic style of brawling for in-ring action to outright taking angles for himself (i.e. the Rock's 'This is Your Life' segment, which was taken from Eddie Gilbert's 'This is Your Life' segment to Lawler).

That's why for a while, the USWA was a developmental territory for the WWE and then they used Power Pro wrestling as a developmental territory. It was exactly the style of wrestling that those wrestlers would be using when they moved up to the WWE.

Lawler was a great babyface. Watching his stuff with Bockwinkel, it was amazing to see how well they could tease the crowd and build them up into a frenzy with 95% of the match consisting of stuff that could not hurt a fly. Their psychology was so dead perfect in that feud with Lawler fitting in as the common Tennesseean, a normal looking guy who could fight and throw a helluva punch and was smarter than his evil opponents could ever give him credit for. Then Bockwinkel being the snooty prima donna who threw around million dollar words and came up with a stipulation that Lawler would be fined every time he threw a punch, only for Lawler to out-smart Bockwinkel by saying that he would be more than willing to pay the fine if it meant winning the championship.

As a heel, I really didn't care for Lawler that much, even in his Memphis days. Then his latter face days in Memphis turned me sour as well as he and Eddie Gilbert became infatuated with using fireballs and really sent that stuff into overkill.






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[TellerMorrow34]

I'm so glad to hear he's doing better and is getting better so quickly. I hope he makes a full recovery and returns to the announce table.

I am a huge fan of Jerry. I've always been a fan of him and I always will be. The guy is entertaining and fun.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Those were the days when wrestling was about wrestling not talking and maybe a little wrestling. The announcers and owners just did their jobs and left the wrestling to the wrestlers.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Eh to each their own on the overall part of it.

I have always, and will always, be more of a fan of the mic work and the segments. That's always been what has drawn me in and got me to watch.

Now don't get me wrong I enjoy a great match. I appreciate them but they're more like icing on the cake than the big part of the cake for me.

Guys who can talk have always been the draw to me which is why I have always liked guy guys Austin, HBK, The Rock, Flair, Lawler, Punk, Foley, Rhodes, etc.

It's also why I'm not really as much of a fan of a guy like Styles or Daniels (prior to his stuff lately, which has been great IMO), because they can wrestle great, which is cool and all, but they can't talk worth a crap so they bore me.

It's the biggest reason I was never a huge Bret Hart fan. Fantastic in ring performer who probably did the best job ever of telling a story during a match with the wrestling but one of the most mediocre top guys on the mic I've ever seen.

Now when he did the anti-America/Pro-Canada stuff I loved it. That was easily, far and away, his best mic work.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Eh to each their own on the overall part of it.

I have always, and will always, be more of a fan of the mic work and the segments. That's always been what has drawn me in and got me to watch.

Now don't get me wrong I enjoy a great match. I appreciate them but they're more like icing on the cake than the big part of the cake for me.

Guys who can talk have always been the draw to me which is why I have always liked guy guys Austin, HBK, The Rock, Flair, Lawler, Punk, Foley, Rhodes, etc.

It's also why I'm not really as much of a fan of a guy like Styles or Daniels (prior to his stuff lately, which has been great IMO), because they can wrestle great, which is cool and all, but they can't talk worth a crap so they bore me.

It's the biggest reason I was never a huge Bret Hart fan. Fantastic in ring performer who probably did the best job ever of telling a story during a match with the wrestling but one of the most mediocre top guys on the mic I've ever seen.

Now when he did the anti-America/Pro-Canada stuff I loved it. That was easily, far and away, his best mic work.

Good point about the mic work... And Bret Hart.

He wasn't able to draw like Shawn Michaels because his mic work was awful.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Those were the days when wrestling was about wrestling not talking and maybe a little wrestling. The announcers and owners just did their jobs and left the wrestling to the wrestlers.

When you started having actors like David Arquette winning championships you knew things were screwed up.

But it wasn't just WCW doing stupid things that made the championship belt worthless. Vince was doing equally dumb things in WWF.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I would extend that even farther. Pretty much every wrestler that was in the WWF/E at that time and even in to the mid 90's came through Memphis. Jerry Lawler owned the Memphis wrestling company. Before he became Hulk Hogan he wrestled in Memphis as Terry Boulder.

Mid-South was a terrific area for fans and wrestlers alike.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Mid-South was a terrific area for fans and wrestlers alike.

I agree but I'm biased

 

[StarBoyz83]

People over 10 watch wrestling??? Really??

 

[Yeagermeister]

People over 10 watch wrestling??? Really??

I haven't watched it in years but we don't have quite a few fans on the board.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I'm 25 & have been watching for a few years. Love it. It's fun & entertaining to me. To each his own!

And awesome news that Jerry is on the mend.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

People over 10 watch wrestling??? Really??

LOL!

I started when I was a wee-lad in the late 60's, watching a wrestling show out of Canada, which featured a lot of wrestlers who wrestled in the Detroit-Buffalo area.

Then in the mid 70's started watching the then WWWF, which had a midnight show on WOR out of NYC.

In the late 70's we started getting the weekly show from the mid-Atlantic area.

Around 1980 we got TBS which had Georgia Championship Wrestling.

I was a regular watcher until the early 90's when there were only 2 major promotions left and wrestling was more about what happened outside the ring than inside.

I think a great many adult fans left around 2000.

 

[big dog cowboy]

People over 10 watch wrestling??? Really??

Millions and millions.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Jerry walks for the first time since the attack

http://www.wmctv.com/story/19532367/jerry-the-king-lawlers-road-to-recovery

 

[Phoenix]

Jerry walks for the first time since the attack

http://www.wmctv.com/story/19532367/jerry-the-king-lawlers-road-to-recovery

Fantastic news, very happy to see this. Can't keep a good King down.