@ Pizon ..... Jerry Lawler is probably the most decorated wrestler of all time. He's had 164 championships throughout his career. That's more than any WWE employee. True, he hasn't had a WWE championship but that may well have to do with the fact that he owns his own promotion.
He's also one of the best heels and one of the funniest, along with Roddy Piper.
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Lawler is taking this in my view from the ICW CWA fued back in the 80s where Randy Savage came on tv from the ICW. Also that was what ICW was people that couldnt get booked. Not to mention Heyman stole everything CWA/Memphis wrestling already did on a weekly basis.
I worked for RAW several nights and saw wrestlers from every organization sitting and eating at the same table together. I'm pretty sure Vince has a monopoly on big time wrestling.
WWF and ECW always had a great relationship. WCW on the other hand, they wanted to take all of ECW's talent to compete against WWF at that time. So WWF and ECW were cool with each other. Both companies helped each other.
@stylinnprofylin Nail on the head! Vince invested somewhere near a half million in ECW and sent them talent. Lawler, Furnas and Lafon, Al Snow and others. Vince and Heyman where more partners than people think! Not even a week after ECW closed Heyman was on RAW and head writer at WWE.
Charles Scaggs vs. Owen Hart could have, and should have, been a five-star match. It's too bad it was a throwaway, and this is coming from a staunch ECW mark.
@FartScrap I *know* it's not real, Captain Obvious, thank you for coming along and telling me what I already know. My point was, keyfabe or not, his comments damning ECW are ironic considering who's in the ring. Go spoil some kid about the Tooth Fairy.
Wow yeah, ECW the company nobody knows and yet people still chant it in arenas around the world, and even Vince's attempts at killing it with his joke replica show still didnt do it. ECW forever, fuck WWE and its sports entertainment bullshit
Ha, yeah Lawler all of those no talent bums..............like the guy you guys hired, Flash Funk aka 2 Cold Scorpio FROM ECW who is right in the ring as you say that???
thats the rocks original music playing in the background lol. it actually sounds similar to the music he uses in his later years which i always thought sucked as it reminded me of this crap
@jrlynn79 king? ha im glad they made it scripted cause anything he says is always bs when it comes to ecw. i miss attitude as well but i also miss ecw and thats why i watch tna other than wwe. dont get me wrong i like wwe for their wrestlers(i watch in respect for them, i do not listen to the commentators or anything else i just watch the in ring stuff)but wwe is crap cause its scripted and they fire every good wrestler they have for stupid reasons, and they fire their girls for their weight.
You know no one really know what ECW was until Vince Brought it back. But everyone know what WCW was and what is was about!. I wish WCW could come back it would be amazing and let Eric Bischoff have another shoot at Vince and I know that Eric would win!
@JhnTft He is getting another shot, it's called TNA and within 8 years, that ship's already on it's way down. Just like WCW, TNA is nothing but WWE grave yard.
Whatever they were talking about...for me, it is disrespectful towards the two wrestlers in the ring to push some other storyline bullshit when a match is going on :/
Bouncers? LOL. Security at the building as well as WWE production staff would confiscate the signs when they observed something they didn't like. Most buildings now have security just screen the signs at the door now.
Not back then but they do regularly at today's events. If it is Anti Cena or advertise a non WWE talent, or anything else that they don't like ... if it is critical of today's WWE talents such as "Another headlock, Randy?" ... in terms of mocking that wrestler for doing a move regularly during a match like Orton does .... than they will confiscate it.
I followed this for a bit and when Michael Cole and Tazz were commenting together, some people said that the face and heel commentators combination like J.R. and Jerry Lawler were considered old fashioned and outdated. They said that Michael Cole and Tazz were more interesting.
Now once Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler no longer use the face and heel commentators gimmick, some people miss Jerry's old school heel commentating.
This was classic stuff: The ECW guys showing up at RAW in NY, Lawler & Cornette invading the ECW Arena, Taz burning a fan's WWF shirt, Dreamer vs. Lawler at November to Remember..
3:30 "As long as the Neighborhood Watch doesn't need to be informed that you're in the neigborhood!"...LOL!!!...he said that 'cause King likes to date girls that are "barely legal" (18-19yrs)...LOL!!!...(basically calling him a child molestor)
@rocksvids08 who cares, like chicks around 18-20 arent at the apex of their beauty. its only innate to man's nature to like women like that. its only in our sick society where normal behavior is called abnormal
you misunderstand. Lawler was putting ECW over. He says it in both the Rise and Fall of ECW and Hardcore History DVDs. But ya 70s and 80s NWA was almost exactly like 90s ECW. Hardcore Brawling will never die.
it just funny that they are talking about the ECW wrestlers as no bodies when Flash Funk wrestled there as 2 Cold Scorpio, holding the tag & television titles.
Well if WCW could be screwed WWF out of bussines and Then AOL Time Warner screwed WCW and if ECW not be screwed by TNN we can have only ECW show full of extreme
@ECWrulez360 U know ths is what started the attitude era right,yeah this did help that snake vinces ratings alot fom gettin his ass handed 2 him by WCW
They also can't stand each other. It had more to do with Vince wanting to shake his show up. It was also a test drive for the Attitude era. Paul overstates his contribution to Attitude, but a LOT of his ideas were taken, and it's a damn shame. I don't think you'll ever see him with TNA, for a bunch of reasons, which is unfortunate, because if any booker not employed by Vince already deserves the blank chequebook that comes with working with Dixie Carter, it's Paul Heyman.
@MystikWizard not true.. I made three signs that had nothing to do with the WWE or wrestling and they did not confiscate any of them.. they were even shown on TV up close.
Okay ... big deal. WWE confiscates signs that are anti-WWE, or Anti-Cena, or Pro TNA or Pro TNA superstars. And they do confiscate signs that are against what they want fans to think. That was my point, which you seemed to miss entirely.
Actually ECW didn't start running the Manhattan Center until '99. The WWF was the only wrestling company to have ran that building at this point in time (Feb. '96) The WWF was returning to original home of Raw after a 2 year absence.
lawler is such an idiot by saying that ECW wouldnt recognize the manhattan center when the fact is that the manhattan center was one of the three ECW headquarters. so the wwf was actually going to an ECW arena.
I heard the news saying J.R. & The King @ the 9/6 Chicago DGUSA event to sign autographs before the show. But, DG wrestlers enjoyed abusing a female monkey. CIMA, ICON of DG, got a baby monkey against the laws & neglected her. Shingo, took part in ROH, posted a photo of her being choked on his blog in amusement. Some did sexual abuse on this female monkey. CIMA & Shingo perform at ECW Arena on 25.7.09. Please search with 'dragon gate' 'Cruelty to animals'.
LMAO yep ECW were soooo realistic. 27 chair shots to the face in one match and the guy is still fighting. ECW was built on the fact that it was edgy and over the top, realism was the last thing on their mind. Thats not a bad thing though, but WWF/WWE were way more realistic than ECW. ECW had good storylines and good promo guys, but it was built on violence and not on wrestling.
the manhattan center was one of the ECW headquarters. king made no sense by saying that. the other three headquarters were the hammerstein ballroom wich is in the same building as the manhattan center. also the elk lodge in queens. and the ECW arena in philadelphia.
i loved old ecw too, but this video reminds me of how great wwe used to be also. Owen & 2 Cold were having a cool match. Man, wrestling sure has gone downhill fast.
ive watched "the king" wrestle in old matches on video, while he was in his prime. he had that old school style that would put todays fan asleep. yet, king talked trash about guys who actually worked hard
Jerry Lawler - One of the best and underrated (for wwf / wwe at least) mic men on the wrestling circuit.....take alook at the infamous "feud" with Andy Kaufman, had the 'world' fooled...!!
This is why guys like Lawler is golden on the mic. He's got you fooled into thinking he's "hypocritical." Lawler co-owned the USWA promotion in Memphis. They did some cross-promoting with ECW down in around 96 or 97. If Lawler hated ECW "for real", he would not have done business with them, let alone give them TV time in Memphis. Lawler was doing yet another really good convincing promo. BTW, Memphis was hardcore long before ECW came along. Check out the matches with the Moondogs/Fabulous Ones
ECW couldn't hold a candle to Memphis back in the day. Mid-South Wrestling was doing concession stand brawls when Paul Heyman was still getting crap wiped off his ass.
The neighbourhood watch joke was aimed at Lawler being a possible pedophile. I dunno LOL!
I remember reading all my PWI magazines,soaking up all I could about ECW before they arrived on RAW that following,week,I skipped school just to see it,& boy I wasent dissapointed.
Keep in mind, it was Lawler's "feud" with ECW that gave ECW it's first real national exposure. If he really hated the company, there's no way he would've agreed to put them over like that.
To be honest, there's no real reason for Lawler not to like ECW since the style was very similar to Memphis (look at the "Concession Stand Brawl, for example.)
So, no, he's not a hypocrite, just really really good on the microphone. Heyman to, come to think of it.
Lawler actually legitimately hated ECW and Heyman. Some say it was heat from an old angle he did with Heyman where he broke his jaw on purpose.
jghor23 3 months ago
what ppl need to relise is wwe was paying for ecw almost and did alot of this for promotion
hiphopfan3051 4 months ago
who won this match?
tyrone37 7 months ago
@tyrone37
The fans. It was the fans who won. [/cliche wrestling bullshit]
jackiedegracia 4 months ago
Jim Ross is halfway between O.o and -_- lol
Crimmyboy 8 months ago
like if solomonster sent you
nycl3gendkiller 8 months ago
Did Lawler partake in the Tupelo Concessions hardcore match in 78/79?
MrDaffyman 8 months ago
@darkstar3x16 Lol When im an old ass id try to do the same thing, why not! LOL
cavemac1 9 months ago
@stylinnprofylin your right mate but, he did it after all for his own benerfit, where are the top stars of ECW now?...Gone.RIP ECW 1993-2001
WWFKaneFanXX 9 months ago
@WWFKaneFanXX
Shane Douglas is doing very well. I believe he's the manager at a Pittsburgh Target.
jackiedegracia 4 months ago
@ Pizon ..... Jerry Lawler is probably the most decorated wrestler of all time. He's had 164 championships throughout his career. That's more than any WWE employee. True, he hasn't had a WWE championship but that may well have to do with the fact that he owns his own promotion.
He's also one of the best heels and one of the funniest, along with Roddy Piper.
hubbuddy 10 months ago 5
@hubbuddy
Who's the girl in the green shirt behind Lawler @ 0:27 ? His date?
jackiedegracia 4 months ago
@darkstar3x16 you're an idiot......he's wrestled anybody and everybody in wrestling
jdsrazor66 10 months ago
@jdsrazor66
Hello, sir. I just wanted to congratulate you on being one of the 15 people on the internet that knows the difference between There, Their, and They're and in what context to use them in. Would you like to join the grammar Nazis in our quest for world wide internet domination? We're invading Poland in September of 2012. You in?
jackiedegracia 4 months ago
Wwe wrestle in big arena's :) Ecw in bingo halls hahaha :) Jerry lawler as heel was so funny :)
derby1980wwe 11 months ago
Lawler is taking this in my view from the ICW CWA fued back in the 80s where Randy Savage came on tv from the ICW. Also that was what ICW was people that couldnt get booked. Not to mention Heyman stole everything CWA/Memphis wrestling already did on a weekly basis.
buck2239 11 months ago
@TommyCraigPateyNL1 Jerry Lawler never won any title in WWE.
Pizon 11 months ago
I worked for RAW several nights and saw wrestlers from every organization sitting and eating at the same table together. I'm pretty sure Vince has a monopoly on big time wrestling.
magnumshifter 11 months ago
WWF and ECW always had a great relationship. WCW on the other hand, they wanted to take all of ECW's talent to compete against WWF at that time. So WWF and ECW were cool with each other. Both companies helped each other.
OofmanRulz 11 months ago
@stylinnprofylin little confused i looked up definition for funding all have diferent explanations can u explain what funding means please
ChadTheWrestleManiac 11 months ago
@stylinnprofylin Nail on the head! Vince invested somewhere near a half million in ECW and sent them talent. Lawler, Furnas and Lafon, Al Snow and others. Vince and Heyman where more partners than people think! Not even a week after ECW closed Heyman was on RAW and head writer at WWE.
mazzaroti 11 months ago
@mazzaroti lead writer* . The head writer is Vince.
Jontish316 10 months ago
ECW is Escape from New York. lol
jdvarga83 1 year ago
good commentating
kevinhardy 1 year ago
Charles Scaggs vs. Owen Hart could have, and should have, been a five-star match. It's too bad it was a throwaway, and this is coming from a staunch ECW mark.
CanadianGuitarist 1 year ago
0.35 sounds like King is describing TNA lol
joe89nufc 1 year ago 6
fuck jerry the bitch ass lawler ecw 4 life !!!
AndrewsOpinion15 1 year ago
@AndrewsOpinion15 dude wwf was way better
wwejheaton 1 year ago
@TommyCraigPateyNL1 no he never
1snub 1 year ago
Hell, Memphis is the birthplace of Hardcore Wrestling
dennymon27 1 year ago
wwe rule bitch???
z7z7o0o0 1 year ago
did jerry lawler ever win a wwf/e title?
whycantihavemyownuse 1 year ago
@whycantihavemyownuse not sure about the wwf/e title but he did win over 100 titles in his illustrious career
aglewi41 1 year ago
Lawler was so awesome by this time..... and was that Rocky Maiba´s music??
thechainzter 1 year ago
@illnessexclusive They never did anything to him, he's just an asshole to people that could kick his ass
TheNinjaOfAWESOME 1 year ago
It'd be sweet if ROH and TNA would do an angle like this.
sakonhagakure 1 year ago
jerry's right, ecw sucks
shaun0103 1 year ago
damn why jerry lawler hate ecw so much? what they do to him?
illnessexclusive 1 year ago
Shoot? It's a work.
Nicklo2k 1 year ago
It's absolutely shocking how many people think this is real. As if ECW is really invading RAW. Or as if this isn't an angle.
FartScrap 1 year ago
No talent bums, huh, King? While Flash Funk is in the ring? Fail on so many levels.
HellsOnlyBelle 1 year ago
@HellsOnlyBelle It's not real.
FartScrap 1 year ago
@FartScrap I *know* it's not real, Captain Obvious, thank you for coming along and telling me what I already know. My point was, keyfabe or not, his comments damning ECW are ironic considering who's in the ring. Go spoil some kid about the Tooth Fairy.
HellsOnlyBelle 1 year ago
this was in the good old days when the king was at his best. great character, great actor.
its a shame that these days he doesnt seem to care about wrestling anymore.
CaptainTrollface 1 year ago
Wow yeah, ECW the company nobody knows and yet people still chant it in arenas around the world, and even Vince's attempts at killing it with his joke replica show still didnt do it. ECW forever, fuck WWE and its sports entertainment bullshit
GolgothaDesolace 1 year ago
@GolgothaDesolace It was an angle. It's not real. This was when Vince McMahon was giving ECW money to stay in business.
FartScrap 1 year ago
That was sooo funny
r1o9n8a6n 1 year ago
Ha, yeah Lawler all of those no talent bums..............like the guy you guys hired, Flash Funk aka 2 Cold Scorpio FROM ECW who is right in the ring as you say that???
theungreatkahli 1 year ago
Just a heads up, freedom of speech in the today's wwe as it pertains to fan signs is officially No More!!! Trust me on that one folks.
slangyung 1 year ago
classic lawler, i love it.
dantheman9856 1 year ago
jerry lawler basically just started the allaince invasion
ccsuk 1 year ago
Define irony: King talking down ECW for being "small time" while an ECW wrestler (2 Cold Scorpio) is in the ring.
DragonDDT 1 year ago
thats the rocks original music playing in the background lol. it actually sounds similar to the music he uses in his later years which i always thought sucked as it reminded me of this crap
prototype00000 1 year ago
Why cant the WWE let the king speak his fucking mind like this these days??? I miss attitude
jrlynn79 1 year ago
@jrlynn79 king? ha im glad they made it scripted cause anything he says is always bs when it comes to ecw. i miss attitude as well but i also miss ecw and thats why i watch tna other than wwe. dont get me wrong i like wwe for their wrestlers(i watch in respect for them, i do not listen to the commentators or anything else i just watch the in ring stuff)but wwe is crap cause its scripted and they fire every good wrestler they have for stupid reasons, and they fire their girls for their weight.
massmayhem12 1 year ago
thats not shooting lol it was an angle change the description!
RustySacks 1 year ago
He promoted ECW, Tells them were it is and everything
DRIP281GRAFFITIKING 1 year ago
You know no one really know what ECW was until Vince Brought it back. But everyone know what WCW was and what is was about!. I wish WCW could come back it would be amazing and let Eric Bischoff have another shoot at Vince and I know that Eric would win!
JhnTft 1 year ago
@JhnTft He is getting another shot, it's called TNA and within 8 years, that ship's already on it's way down. Just like WCW, TNA is nothing but WWE grave yard.
ladykiller85 1 year ago
@JhnTft nobody knew what ECW was until mcmahon brought it back? wtf are you talking about son. i used to watch ecw back in the 90's
gannable 1 year ago
@gannable Yeah you watch i but you really didn't know about it until Vince brought it back.
JhnTft 1 year ago
the rocky maivia theme song, hadn't heard that in ages
kenshamrocktito7 1 year ago
he's right i didn't know anything about ECW
MsEdwardcullen345 1 year ago
it wasn't a work heyman and lawler hated each other learn the facts!
oldschool6804 1 year ago
Lawler is one of the best promo guys of all time.
MrWayneKeller 1 year ago
Whatever they were talking about...for me, it is disrespectful towards the two wrestlers in the ring to push some other storyline bullshit when a match is going on :/
DPop1979 1 year ago
Paul Heyman has always really annoyed the hell out of me.
enjoyitbro 1 year ago
King lawler that was a good shoot promo!!
epicfail23 1 year ago
Hahahahahaha! King is funny! "Manhattan centre is an arena and not a bingo hall!" LOL
froogledoogleboogle 1 year ago
@ranier001
Bouncers? LOL. Security at the building as well as WWE production staff would confiscate the signs when they observed something they didn't like. Most buildings now have security just screen the signs at the door now.
MystikWizard 1 year ago
@ranier001
Not back then but they do regularly at today's events. If it is Anti Cena or advertise a non WWE talent, or anything else that they don't like ... if it is critical of today's WWE talents such as "Another headlock, Randy?" ... in terms of mocking that wrestler for doing a move regularly during a match like Orton does .... than they will confiscate it.
MystikWizard 1 year ago
@DarkMatchJobber
I followed this for a bit and when Michael Cole and Tazz were commenting together, some people said that the face and heel commentators combination like J.R. and Jerry Lawler were considered old fashioned and outdated. They said that Michael Cole and Tazz were more interesting.
Now once Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler no longer use the face and heel commentators gimmick, some people miss Jerry's old school heel commentating.
balancer182 1 year ago
Was this the time when WWE was losing in ratings to WCW?
balancer182 1 year ago
This is a work shoot meaning its a work but Lawler meant every damn word he said about ECW. Also
Bloodsport1 1 year ago
is that Ice Train from old WCW in the ring with Owen Hart?
w0lf101 1 year ago
@w0lf101 are you fucking kidding me? That 2 Cold Scorpio not Ice Train. Beside Ice Train have 22 inch arms.
Bloodsport1 1 year ago
@Bloodsport1
Looks like the same dude...
w0lf101 1 year ago
"you believe in freedom of speech? WELL I DON'T!"
lol I miss King as a heel.
matt4lyfe 2 years ago 2
lol lawler is the king of trash talking!!!
yonkeykong1988 2 years ago 3
Then Lawler goes into the lion's den, THE ECW ARENA, and needs security to escort him out b/c we dont play in Pa.
BigHomie717 2 years ago 6
I know its a work and all, but I totally agree with Jerry Lawler here!
edinscot56789 2 years ago
This was classic stuff: The ECW guys showing up at RAW in NY, Lawler & Cornette invading the ECW Arena, Taz burning a fan's WWF shirt, Dreamer vs. Lawler at November to Remember..
The 90s was a great time to be a wrestling fan.
ebbowman 2 years ago 4
amen
dlbaze 1 year ago
between the start of the vid and 0:12, you could see the guy grab another ecw rules sign, outlined. that made me LOL. just shows how good ECW was.
Madis08 2 years ago
it was a 'work' between both the companies for a small event to generate more publicity on both sides
warmaker911 2 years ago 17
It may have been a work, but the hate between Lawler and Heyman was and is very real, dating back to when Paul was a manager in the CWA.
SDBugg 2 years ago
@warmaker911 and I think it was a smart business move
QuietGiantProduction 1 year ago
Who won the match?
RumbleHD 2 years ago
The King invading ECW was awsome because there was genuine hate on both sides.
ExtremeECWv1 2 years ago 3
"you probably wont recognize the Manhattan center because its an arena not a bingo hall"
that made me LOL
Ell3Garden 2 years ago
EXTREMELY CRAPPY WRESTLING
ECW :D
Ell3Garden 2 years ago
3:30 "As long as the Neighborhood Watch doesn't need to be informed that you're in the neigborhood!"...LOL!!!...he said that 'cause King likes to date girls that are "barely legal" (18-19yrs)...LOL!!!...(basically calling him a child molestor)
rocksvids08 2 years ago 3
@rocksvids08
Actually Lawler was accused of Statutory rape and banging a 13 year old, but she rescinded her statement and they dropped the charges.
Lawler loves young pussy thats for sure.
floeticdeath 2 years ago 4
@rocksvids08 who cares, like chicks around 18-20 arent at the apex of their beauty. its only innate to man's nature to like women like that. its only in our sick society where normal behavior is called abnormal
gannable 1 year ago
Fuck you
heyarnoldsknee 2 years ago
it wasn't a work heyman and lawler hate each other! lawler legit broke heymens jaw!
oldschool6804 2 years ago
lol @ clarence mason distracting owen hart
LifeSoulAz 2 years ago
you misunderstand. Lawler was putting ECW over. He says it in both the Rise and Fall of ECW and Hardcore History DVDs. But ya 70s and 80s NWA was almost exactly like 90s ECW. Hardcore Brawling will never die.
Collegejew629 2 years ago
back when wrestling was AWESOME!
LeonMeekis84 2 years ago 4
then like a week or two later ECW did come I remember it was around March 1997
jaroncreed 2 years ago
it just funny that they are talking about the ECW wrestlers as no bodies when Flash Funk wrestled there as 2 Cold Scorpio, holding the tag & television titles.
MrJustinPossible 2 years ago
Well if WCW could be screwed WWF out of bussines and Then AOL Time Warner screwed WCW and if ECW not be screwed by TNN we can have only ECW show full of extreme
ECWrulez360 2 years ago
fuck lawler. PHILLY RULES
sortman94 2 years ago
i still dont understand wwe giving ecw free airtime on raw, however mr monday night was awesome
g81mjk 2 years ago
becouse Vince thought it will be good for ratings doing monday night wars dumbass
ECWrulez360 2 years ago
@ECWrulez360 U know ths is what started the attitude era right,yeah this did help that snake vinces ratings alot fom gettin his ass handed 2 him by WCW
MeThinks995 2 years ago
And ECW wanted to do first ECW pay per view so WWF promoted them becouse Vince never thought ECW is kind a treat like WCW was at the time
ECWrulez360 2 years ago
Wow that was pretty cool. They gave ECW a free plug. I think Jim Ross had something to do that. Ross and Heyman worked with each other in WCW.
OnTheBoards718 2 years ago
They also can't stand each other. It had more to do with Vince wanting to shake his show up. It was also a test drive for the Attitude era. Paul overstates his contribution to Attitude, but a LOT of his ideas were taken, and it's a damn shame. I don't think you'll ever see him with TNA, for a bunch of reasons, which is unfortunate, because if any booker not employed by Vince already deserves the blank chequebook that comes with working with Dixie Carter, it's Paul Heyman.
rickhren 2 years ago
yeah but lawler is currently not like that;
hes quite boring nad no longer supporting the heels :(
haqzuk 2 years ago 3
This was during the time WWF and ECW had a working agreement. Alot people didn't know at the time.
abadlu1 2 years ago
Ross "We believe in freedom of speech here."
LOL. Really? Is that why WWE confiscates signs at every single event these days?
MystikWizard 2 years ago 30
yeah every cena sucks sign. freedom of speech my butt
TQXPreturns 2 years ago 2
@MystikWizard not true.. I made three signs that had nothing to do with the WWE or wrestling and they did not confiscate any of them.. they were even shown on TV up close.
JMitchProductions 1 year ago
@JMitchProductions
Okay ... big deal. WWE confiscates signs that are anti-WWE, or Anti-Cena, or Pro TNA or Pro TNA superstars. And they do confiscate signs that are against what they want fans to think. That was my point, which you seemed to miss entirely.
MystikWizard 1 year ago
i miss the OLD King.
bestthinggoing459 2 years ago 5
Actually ECW didn't start running the Manhattan Center until '99. The WWF was the only wrestling company to have ran that building at this point in time (Feb. '96) The WWF was returning to original home of Raw after a 2 year absence.
markme123 2 years ago
lawler is such an idiot by saying that ECW wouldnt recognize the manhattan center when the fact is that the manhattan center was one of the three ECW headquarters. so the wwf was actually going to an ECW arena.
DORITO773 2 years ago
I d say Paul E got some heat for the neighbourhood watch comment (type in doug gilbert shoot if you dont get it)
alrussell1985 2 years ago
Lawler is in the Top #5 heels of all time!
ArticulateDon 2 years ago 2
lawler was one of the reasons i watched wrestling he's funny and cool
Deidaaraartisabang 2 years ago 2
Its all scripted didnt vince buy it.
BruceQ5 2 years ago
Back in the 90's no. Vince didn't buy ECW until 2006... This was a shoot
nodqisme222 2 years ago
2 wrestling geniuses- Jerry Lawler and Paul Heyman
ECOOL76 2 years ago 22
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I heard the news saying J.R. & The King @ the 9/6 Chicago DGUSA event to sign autographs before the show. But, DG wrestlers enjoyed abusing a female monkey. CIMA, ICON of DG, got a baby monkey against the laws & neglected her. Shingo, took part in ROH, posted a photo of her being choked on his blog in amusement. Some did sexual abuse on this female monkey. CIMA & Shingo perform at ECW Arena on 25.7.09. Please search with 'dragon gate' 'Cruelty to animals'.
DgAbuseMonkey 2 years ago
what a fud lawler is here, jr is well uncomfortable, is this kayfabe?
theorangeranger 2 years ago
oh mister Jeerry lawler wrestlers went to ecw because they wnat to be realstic not fucvking Fake like WWE/F
kunalchanna 2 years ago
LMAO yep ECW were soooo realistic. 27 chair shots to the face in one match and the guy is still fighting. ECW was built on the fact that it was edgy and over the top, realism was the last thing on their mind. Thats not a bad thing though, but WWF/WWE were way more realistic than ECW. ECW had good storylines and good promo guys, but it was built on violence and not on wrestling.
grayfoks 2 years ago
Who's Owen Hart wrestling
warriorsfan19 2 years ago
You don't know him ???
It's 2 Cold Scorpio or Flash Funk in WWF.
Wrukolakas 2 years ago
thanks
warriorsfan19 2 years ago
dude he's a warrior fan what'd you expect...
RIP302 2 years ago
@warriorsfan19 Flash Funk
DaKidRich90 1 year ago
@warriorsfan19 flash funk
sonicman2500 1 year ago
fucken fatso
Sinisterene 2 years ago
the manhattan center was one of the ECW headquarters. king made no sense by saying that. the other three headquarters were the hammerstein ballroom wich is in the same building as the manhattan center. also the elk lodge in queens. and the ECW arena in philadelphia.
DORITO773 2 years ago
Dude... Lawler said WCW... wasn't this early-1997, when saying WCW was still pretty taboo?
danielhowse 2 years ago
It was likely said in order to make people think that the ECW/WWF angle was real and legitimate.
BloodyMargie 2 years ago
i loved old ecw too, but this video reminds me of how great wwe used to be also. Owen & 2 Cold were having a cool match. Man, wrestling sure has gone downhill fast.
Firetrainer60 3 years ago 7
funny.
ive watched "the king" wrestle in old matches on video, while he was in his prime. he had that old school style that would put todays fan asleep. yet, king talked trash about guys who actually worked hard
chasegreen707 3 years ago
But you forget, people marked the hell out for a piledriver in his prime.
This was a good feud though. WWE crosspromoting ECW did wonders for ECW at that point of time.
ThaFlameofATown 2 years ago
*WWF
BloodyMargie 2 years ago
Oh you're such an insider aren't you lol. Loser.
irishgeezer1 3 years ago
Paul's "neighborhood watch" comment was hilarious.
SeanCore31 3 years ago
old ecw was the shit fuck lawler
poodude 3 years ago 4
haha yer man
copy and paste
if you think
Paul Heyman
changed
wrestling as we know it today
nick87c 3 years ago
now it IS shit.
I miss old ECW.
jmcampbell78 3 years ago
Part work/part shoot
He meant what he said but also had to say bad thing about ECW because of the angle at the time.
Samthenativeamerican 3 years ago
OWEN HEART LUV U ALWAYS U RULE xXx, daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn bout da convo
nooriuk786 3 years ago 2
OH EHM GEE it's a shoot. Paul Heyman and Lawler HATE each other because Lawler cares too much about what other people are doing.
RIP302 3 years ago
thats why he put over ECW when he was promoting mMemphis, he gave them TV time in Memphis.
ReturnOfRizo 2 years ago
who Lawler? Lawler gave them tv time? I didnt know Lawler had that much power in wwe
RIP302 2 years ago
no when he allowed them on USWA TV hence the word Memphis.
ReturnOfRizo 2 years ago
Go Lawler XD
Richiepookinshoo 3 years ago 2
work
karlmalone1289 3 years ago
WORK!!!!
Blazers04 3 years ago
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Fuck Lawler, he's a selfish dickhead, why he cared so much about what other people liked or like is beyond me. i'd like to see his ass get beat down
RIP302 3 years ago
Jerry Lawler - One of the best and underrated (for wwf / wwe at least) mic men on the wrestling circuit.....take alook at the infamous "feud" with Andy Kaufman, had the 'world' fooled...!!
alansalt 3 years ago 7
was this real? or scripted?
tsaleh88 3 years ago
what was Owen's manager doing?
LifeSoulAz 3 years ago
This is why guys like Lawler is golden on the mic. He's got you fooled into thinking he's "hypocritical." Lawler co-owned the USWA promotion in Memphis. They did some cross-promoting with ECW down in around 96 or 97. If Lawler hated ECW "for real", he would not have done business with them, let alone give them TV time in Memphis. Lawler was doing yet another really good convincing promo. BTW, Memphis was hardcore long before ECW came along. Check out the matches with the Moondogs/Fabulous Ones
ddrock23 3 years ago 5
ECW couldn't hold a candle to Memphis back in the day. Mid-South Wrestling was doing concession stand brawls when Paul Heyman was still getting crap wiped off his ass.
jmcampbell78 3 years ago 3
The neighbourhood watch joke was aimed at Lawler being a possible pedophile. I dunno LOL!
I remember reading all my PWI magazines,soaking up all I could about ECW before they arrived on RAW that following,week,I skipped school just to see it,& boy I wasent dissapointed.
Necrocide187 3 years ago 2
Lawler was charged with statutory raped in Louisville, Ky in 96. I believe all charges were eventually dropped
cards20082009 3 years ago
neighborhood watch joke???
Fittsburgh 3 years ago
If Lawler really hated ECW like you say, he would have not even shown up to Raw that night...all of that was a work.
Vulture629 3 years ago
probably a bit of both.
OrochiDomingo 3 years ago
ecw is extremely crappy wrestling, only poo poo and tommy lynn stubbs like it
cristianostubbs 3 years ago
Wooooooah.....CALM DOWN Lawler!
kburns2406 3 years ago 8
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Lawler is such a faggot trying to bury ECW.
Luffyone 3 years ago
haha the kid had a back-up sign
JTKatz07 3 years ago 10
Lawler was working.
Keep in mind, it was Lawler's "feud" with ECW that gave ECW it's first real national exposure. If he really hated the company, there's no way he would've agreed to put them over like that.
To be honest, there's no real reason for Lawler not to like ECW since the style was very similar to Memphis (look at the "Concession Stand Brawl, for example.)
So, no, he's not a hypocrite, just really really good on the microphone. Heyman to, come to think of it.
pepethekingprawn 3 years ago 9