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(WMCTV)   Wrestling legend Jerry "The King" Lawler suffers possible stroke   (actionnews5.com) divider line
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puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 2:08:12 PM  
The guy can't have too many lives left...
 
poconojoe [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 2:30:53 PM  
"by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay
 
drunk_bouncnbaloruber
2023-02-07 2:40:34 PM  

poconojoe: "by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay


I thought Too Hot died in jail.
 
WoodyHayes [OhFark]
2023-02-07 2:45:59 PM  
Strokes are some ugly things, hope he recovers.
 
sephjnr
2023-02-07 2:47:37 PM  

drunk_bouncnbaloruber: poconojoe: "by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay

I thought Too Hot died in jail.


His son took himself out in jail and Jerry pulled the plug.

Feel how you feel about Jerry but no father deserves to go through that.
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-07 2:59:15 PM  
Hopefully she's older than 15 this time.
 
Clash City Farker
2023-02-07 3:09:07 PM  
Is this some kind of new angle? Do I look like a mark?  I'm not buying it.
 
dietbubba [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 3:10:10 PM  
Saw him wrestle last fall. Looked better than just about everyone else there.
honestly thought Bushwhacker Luke was going to die in the ring
 
Broktun
2023-02-07 3:13:35 PM  
Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.
 
Representative of the unwashed masses
2023-02-07 3:16:12 PM  
He needs to rest, so no one send him PUPPIES to his hotel room!
 
Flappyhead
2023-02-07 3:18:29 PM  

dietbubba: Saw him wrestle last fall. Looked better than just about everyone else there.
honestly thought Bushwhacker Luke was going to die in the ring


Lawler is the poster boy for why you only take big bumps in big matches.  He worked a low impact style with good psychology on a typical night, bringing out the hard stuff for the blow off matches.
 
Clash City Farker
2023-02-07 3:18:44 PM  

Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.


yeah yeah, yeah yeah

/worries too much about all the goldfish that have been flushed
 
BlackCloudofDespair
2023-02-07 3:18:50 PM  
Does this mean the Batmobile will soon be for sale?
 
Klippoklondike [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 3:20:22 PM  

drunk_bouncnbaloruber: poconojoe: "by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay

I thought Too Hot died in jail.


I think his son was Grandmaster Sexay who did that, not scotty 2 hotty
 
Tell Me How My Blog Tastes [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 3:24:20 PM  

Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.


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isamudyson [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 3:29:01 PM  
Meanwhile, millions of puppies are hanging low after hearing this. Hopefully, they'll be able to perk up if they get some good news about him.
 
jake3988 [OhFark]
2023-02-07 3:52:51 PM  

drunk_bouncnbaloruber: poconojoe: "by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay

I thought Too Hot died in jail.


That would be Grandmaster Sexay.  Scotty 2 Hotty was his tag team partner back in the day.

He still has another son.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 4:05:35 PM  

Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

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I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 4:07:40 PM  
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RIP Jerry King
 
Myk-House of El [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 4:16:11 PM  

The_Sponge: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

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I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.


Lawler expanding on the Kaufman feud was probably the highlight for me so far on "Tales From the Territories" I haven't watched all episodes yet, though.  Anyone interested in that chapter of pro wrestling history should watch that specific episode (Episode 2).
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-07 4:21:10 PM  

The_Sponge: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

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I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.


Jerry Jarrett had wrestling promoters calling him up and thanking him for teaching that Hollywood blowhard a lesson.   In my mind that makes it the greatest angle ever created in the business.
 
Rwa2play [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 4:23:41 PM  

Myk-House of El: The_Sponge: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

[i.gifer.com image 400x300] [View Full Size image _x_]

I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.

Lawler expanding on the Kaufman feud was probably the highlight for me so far on "Tales From the Territories" I haven't watched all episodes yet, though.  Anyone interested in that chapter of pro wrestling history should watch that specific episode (Episode 2).


Need to watch that Memphis episode sometime.  All of the others were mind-blowing with some of the antics and stories behind many of their angles.
 
Jack Sabbath
2023-02-07 4:25:32 PM  
WHAT IS HIS VACCINATION STATUS???!!!!

Get the REAL story, sheeple.
 
phedex
2023-02-07 4:36:55 PM  
Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 4:39:22 PM  

phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.


He saw Mae Young's puppies.
 
Nick el Ass
2023-02-07 4:53:41 PM  
.jake3988: drunk_bouncnbaloruber: poconojoe: "by gawd King - you have a family!"

/hope he's okay

I thought Too Hot died in jail.

That would be Grandmaster Sexay.  Scotty 2 Hotty was his tag team partner back in the day.

He still has another son.

Brian Christopher seemed like a good dude, and I was lucky enough to meet him in 2015 when working for a local wrestling company as part of the ring crew... but him and Scotty still had a hell of a lot of charisma and worked well together despite not wrestling as a tag team regularly for years. Scotty recently left social media after people were calling him names after talking about refusing to wrestle women after saying he had a daughter in her early 20s.

/Radar, what is this cow flubdubbery?
 
Nick el Ass
2023-02-07 4:58:51 PM  

Myk-House of El: The_Sponge: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

[i.gifer.com image 400x300] [View Full Size image _x_]

I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.

Lawler expanding on the Kaufman feud was probably the highlight for me so far on "Tales From the Territories" I haven't watched all episodes yet, though.  Anyone interested in that chapter of pro wrestling history should watch that specific episode (Episode 2).


Snapper Carr: The_Sponge: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes: Broktun: Andy Kaufman's long con is starting to take shape.

[i.gifer.com image 400x300] [View Full Size image _x_]

I still remember that clip being replayed on TV....late 90s or early, 00s, IIRC.

My Mom saw me watching it, and she was convinced that their beef was real....it took me a while to convince her that it was not.

Incredible acting by Lawler and Kaufman.

Jerry Jarrett had wrestling promoters calling him up and thanking him for teaching that Hollywood blowhard a lesson.   In my mind that makes it the greatest angle ever created in the business.


Andy Kaufman not being in the WWE Hall of Fame pisses me off.
 
isamudyson [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 5:03:11 PM  

Jack Sabbath: WHAT IS HIS VACCINATION STATUS???!!!!

Get the REAL story, sheeple.


You know who would total be able to pull that off in-character?

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puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 5:03:33 PM  

The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.


God.

What an awful thing that was.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:28:19 PM  

puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.


Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.
 
Nick el Ass
2023-02-07 6:36:38 PM  

The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.


Long term story telling was in full effect when an adult Hand Boy showed up on Raw.

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The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:40:40 PM  

Nick el Ass: The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.

Long term story telling was in full effect when an adult Hand Boy showed up on Raw.

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LOL....I totally forgot about that....for a good reason.  Yeesh.
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-07 6:46:57 PM  

The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.


The Attitude Era was kind of terrible when Austin, Rock or Foley weren't involved.   There's a lot of terrible stuff that people forgot because it wasn't "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" bad, just bad.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 7:04:31 PM  

Snapper Carr: The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.

The Attitude Era was kind of terrible when Austin, Rock or Foley weren't involved.   There's a lot of terrible stuff that people forgot because it wasn't "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" bad, just bad.


Well....

The Godfather and Val Venis were entertaining....as was DX.
 
phedex
2023-02-07 8:10:43 PM  

The_Sponge: Snapper Carr: The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.

The Attitude Era was kind of terrible when Austin, Rock or Foley weren't involved.   There's a lot of terrible stuff that people forgot because it wasn't "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" bad, just bad.

Well....

The Godfather and Val Venis were entertaining....as was DX.


I can still laugh at "I choppy choppy your pee pee" and mark henry falling in love with... not exactly a woman.
 
AuralArgument
2023-02-07 8:16:23 PM  
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The attitude era was, different
 
ongbok
2023-02-07 8:44:36 PM  
Maybe he will be reunited with Grandmaster Sexxay in Heaven.

/This time hopefully he won't steal his son's girl.
 
sephjnr
2023-02-08 3:25:28 AM  

Snapper Carr: The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.

The Attitude Era was kind of terrible when Austin, Rock or Foley weren't involved.   There's a lot of terrible stuff that people forgot because it wasn't "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" bad, just bad.


Exactly. DX was a fun part of it, in patches, but it was never the driving force behind the AE. And that it was positioned as such, just because Austin and Vince weren't talking for a while, was superlatively fraudulent.
 
TDWCom29
2023-02-08 10:12:12 AM  

Snapper Carr: The_Sponge: puffy999: The_Sponge: phedex: Im mildly surprised that he's not closer to 80 years old.  It really seems like he's been around forever, because he has been.

Also, considering he's long been a teetotaler/healthy living guy..... how is it he's had repeated strokes and heart attacks, and ric flair... well, i think if flair wasn't a drinker that he'd have had a regular in-ring career to 70 years old.

He saw Mae Young's puppies.

God.

What an awful thing that was.

Yup.

And as much as I love the Attitude Era, I had to do a face palm when she got knocked up my Mark Henry and gave birth to a hand.

The Attitude Era was kind of terrible when Austin, Rock or Foley weren't involved.   There's a lot of terrible stuff that people forgot because it wasn't "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" bad, just bad.


Exactly. People act like wrestling is soooo much worse these days, but wrestling has always been roughly 90% shiat and 10% stuff that keeps you watching
 
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