Jerry Lawler's revenge on Tommy Rich

[silvertheowdude]

great wrestling all hail the king old school at its best not this bullshit thats on today

[SemiBaked]

It looks like a lights out match, I can barely see anything. :)



[MrIndeeply]

Lawler in a Dress LOL CLASSIC MOMENT

[nightshyn]

That's Hell in a Cell before it was Hell in a cell

[BIGZIPZ]

The second secret word is MUSIC

[fortyfootfurby]

the old king!

[thedawn090]

What happened to Jerry Lawler? He used to be a monster throughout the territories. He turned into something weak in the WWF.

[GDCTT]

@thedawn090 you answered your own question, the WWE. that organization has destroyed alot of careers.

[velvetgoldmine30]

i wanna see lawler in drag again....sitting next to cole with a serious looking face going "what? what r ya looking at?"

[Nosfeast]

@velvetgoldmine30 I think Cole would like that too much sence he is gay and we all know he LOVES Jerry.

[velvetgoldmine30]

bit pathetic using lance as a scapegoat, his body language clearly said "don't get me involved here"

[jimpsyd]

lol tommy rich saying jerry lawler is past tense in 1987 yet here in 2011 lawler has one of the top matches of wrestlemania

[CombatSportFan]

"For helping Idol win his hair and crush his balls." Well if ever there was a reason to get revenge on someone I suppose that's it!!! LOL

[tarowell100]

All I can say is, this was one of the greatest Feuds ever.

[MrNWA4Life]

I miss the goatee. Lawler looked like the guitar player from Los Lobos!

[mrjaston011]

yeah they edited it , idol the greatest, best on the mic and could string a crowd

[wildcatpride2002]

Did they edit out smashing lawler's balls on the ring post?

[MrMayDX08]

I miss Memphis wrestling. Jerry Lawler is the undisputed King of that area, and this was another great angle with Lawler in the dress attacking Tommy Rich. The days of those great sensible angles are over, unfortunately. This was well-thought out and well-executed. Bravo to Eddie Marlin and the booking team in Memphis.

[magnumshifter]

Is Lance still alive?

[86lenny]

@magnumshifter Yes sir and he's doing fine. I think he's living in Pennisicola Florida.

[yardlet6]

@magnumshifter Yup.

[DBADD]

Shhh..listen to the crowd. That's Wrestling.

[studboyvincep]

Paul E. Dangerly?

[dcwpsycho]

this was when wrestling was good.all they want to do now is act like a reality show.this is when theyd do stuff to make you go, hmmmm is this fake or did that really happen?? king and rich both come to my town and wrestle at small independent shows and are both real cool and not stuck up.they wrestle with independent jabroni guys here and put on a way better show than wwe.

[creatureofthenight1]

lol Lawler is surprisingly convincing in his dress! Still, definitely one of the greats of all time.

[jvswerbo]

The good ole days

[Wiseman0271]

Somebody said sum bout fired up!!!!!!!

[MrKooldaddykool]

Classic!

[MarineVET32]

OMG lol I am so old I remember this match and I OMG I am so old lol.

[RSXemperor]

Is it safe to say just based on talent he managed that would go on to be main eventers from Austin to Brock Lesnar to Angle, that Paul Heyman is the greatest manager of all time? He was awesome because he was so obnoxious and played his role well. Jim Cornette once said Heyman could turn Genghis Khan babyface. Anyone who knows Paul E. will tell you in real life, he is like medium rare meat. An acquired taste. You love him or hate him but either way, great booking mind and great manager.

[johnnylongbone]

Tommy RIch is a country as a wooden screen door.

"the King is Thoo"

LOL!

[CraigJericho]

A former co-worker @ FedEx told me he was at this event when Lawler got bis balls crushed.He said it was an ugly sight.

[princesstamika]

@CraigJericho Lawler got his balls crushed?!

[CraigJericho]

Yep.

[86lenny]

No, it was an injury angle because Lawler needed time off. He was having a procedure to try an reverse a vasetomy he had a few years ealier.

[reaper0004]

He said he wasn't ashamed to show or hide his face, but he had sun glasses on.

[MorbidCovenant666]

I love that Rich interview. He'sgreat as a heel, in my opinion. BTW, man you'd think Lawler would've agreed to have his head actually "shaved". It just looks like he got a normal haircut, lol. Not like when Boogie Woogie got his head shaved by Paul Jones and them. Now that was a shave!

[LanceRussel1]

This happened about a month after the hair match. Lawler had to have surgery because of the nutbuster he recieved and was out that long. So his hair had time to grow back.

[lizardman77]

Damn they botched that spike piledriver.

[diesel021234]

RIP PAUL HEYMAN.

[kingdomoftheworm]

Paul's not dead.

[Sargebri]

This was the event where Paul Heyman first got national press. Of course, he would go on to the AWA, WCW and, eventually, ECW.

[phenomfranklinstein]

Jerry Lawler lost his hair? Really now... Looks like he got a haircut a little closer than he normally did back then. Closer to a haircut he gets these days. Still gotta love the man and all the Memphis boys

[ashleybound]

question, is Paul Dangerly actually Paul Heyman?

[danopageadditt]

Yes

[ashleybound]

I figured as much. It's so cool to see the old school mixed with the school. On a personal note, I met Tommy Rich at a convention. He said he had no clue that he was going tobe world champion. It was, as he said, a last minute thing. And Tommy Rich could pull off being a face or being a heel and Lawler figured out that he could be a world champion beating Curt Henning

[roadrocket7]

Aaaahhh...the good ol days in Memphus;

Ha ha ha!!! It don't get any better. Anyone

out there remember Handsome Jimmy

Valiant and "Lawler's Army" w/Mickey Poole? Handsome Jimmy Valiant used to

refer to Jerry as Jerry "The Queen" Lawler

and/or "Kingfish". Remember Norvell Austin? Memphis wrestling RULES!

[edwardankney]

francine

i am happy that jerry the king llawler got what he deserved. like he said in the video he use to play dirty so turn about is fair play. anyway how could you not want someone as hot as wildfire to look at all the time.

[jcp1977]

After this vid did Lawler ever get his revenge on Tommy Rich?

[BlackDeathRider]

Jerry was EXTREMELY sneaky!!!

[VDRP]

Jerry Lawler looks better when he was younger.

[dcboy29]

Does anybody how they pulled that angle off with Rich being underneath the ring? Was he under the ring for the whole card?

[WillIsSoAwesome]

Yep. That's the only way it could have been done.

WCW did the same thing once with Perfect and Norton...and Perfect crapped. Good times.

[yardlet6]

@dcboy29 Yep. Rich came in im the morning and stayed until the match was over. Then Idol,Rich and Heyman stayed in the arena because the fans were going to kill them.

[SandyKrebs]

Even at this late date, memphis wrestling was better than anything we have now.

[strang14]

@SandyKrebs Even now. WWE is getting ratings it had back in 1995, when it started.

[mankind2112]

Yep McMahon put all of these smaller promotions out of business - that greedy bitch. Now the guys have no where to learn their craft except HIS developmental areas which is nothing more than E crap.

[IrishEyez01]

hahah selimaazouri, your right if my grandpa was alive right now and U said anything about his fav's (im from Ga) then u were hitting the floor LOL hahah...I miss this soooo much!

[Lovelygal71]

Hey, I feel the same way and heck I'm from Mo! LOL I tell ya, I miss this stuff. I loved wrestling (not this mess that's "popular" with now) but WRESTLING.

[aj31313]

The best was when they shaved Angle's hair and he had the headgear with the wig attached. LOL

[speakwhnspkn2]

shut up fool!

[jbourneidentity3769]

Or Arkansas. This was it. This was all that was important to me growing up. I've seen the grandmas out of control in Jonesboro. Lawler was truly the king. I lived for Monday nights.

[SUPERCHEVY93]

If it weren't for lawler,Tommy Rich would have never been heard of

[NAYellowjackets]

You are a moron!

[yardlet6]

Oh yeah? Ask anyone from Georgia in the late 70s and early 80s. Beat Harley Race for the NWA world title.

[bigdog67]

Tommy Rich? Yes he did beat Harley Race for The NWA World Title, but only held the belt for five days, loosing it back to Race

[yardlet6]

Five days,five months,he got a taste of the gold. Thanks or no thanks to Jim Barnett.

[geminiwizard1969]

Wasn't Rich's title run a screw job on Harley?

[yardlet6]

I don't think so. There were all sorts of weird stories regarding the title change. They stuck with Race because he represented a better and tougher looking champ than Race IMHO.

[BaronTurco]

No. They wanted a title change on a non-televised card to impress on the fans the importance of attending live cards. Rick was chosen because Jim Barnett like him a lot.

[sjcskd68]

@geminiwizard1969 yes and harley got it back the next nite though lol tommy rich was a shitty wrestler though.............

[yardlet6]

@SUPERCHEVY93 Georgia made Tommy Rich not Memphis.

[1kyredneck1]

jerry lawler looks more like the queen instead of the king and tommy rich always sux..

[arkansoul]

Being from the area, people took wrestling very, very serious. A lot of fights broke out and fans tried to hurt anyone who double-crossed or hurt Lawler. Every Monday night and Saturday morning was a classic treat.

[dandbradley]

too true. I grew up while watching my dad's friends, the moondogs, travel all over the place.

[bonscott55]

dangerly?

they musta not shaved his head to the skin.

[heroinblack]

I don't think they ever showed The King totally bald at the head-shaving, so I can't say for sure; but I can say he was out several weeks before this promo. It could have conceivably grown back that much between the actual shaving and this promo.

[RayNDeere]

Basically gave him a buzz cut. Never got skinned. Rich, Idol and Heyman had to run for their lives to get to the locker room, then had to wait for a couple hours after the show to leave because the fans were looking for blood.

[pinballkid]

God, I`d forgotten how bad Tommy Rich sucked at cutting a heel promo...

[Omthala]

Lawler was the shit back then,for real!

[carlblack99]

This is the real wrestling, great story lines.

[CadillacL]

Sirtony47...jerry sounds like brian christopher cause Jerry is his dad.

[ttwarrior1]

dang king has some speed

[sirtony47]

jerry sounds like brian christopher

[volstar88]

God that was great. Never mind the over obvious woman just walking up to the ring......still pretty funny.

[Lovelygal71]

woman? what woman?

[volstar88]

I don't think I have ever seen anyone allowed to walk up to the ring for an autograph right before a TV match...but hey, it was still good, just not very believable that Rich would be that stupid.