[1991-03-09-USWA-Memphis TV] Jerry Lawler Tribute

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This was a phenomenal 7-minute retrospective on Lawler's career, with lots of great clips, both old and recent, capped off with "My Way". This is a tremendous piece of business - one of my favorite things to show up on any yearbook.

[shoe]

This might be the greatest wrestler video ever. The WWE should have used this when Lawler was inducted into the HOF or when he returned from the heart attack.

[PeteF3]

"Thank God for Kids" was a little much for me, but the clip sequence was incredible, with Lawler beating up pretty much every major star of the '80s. With this, I'd say they were essentially coming out and declaring a title change was imminent.

[Kevin Ridge]

The song choice of Nobody Does It Better from Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me had me doing a double take. But I loved it as big Bond fan. Old video footage of Lawler against some of the biggest stars in wrestling. This was excellent with the amount of footage shown.

[soup23]

I legit had chills watching this. The way it was constructed with the dramatic clips and Lawler going up against all these big names was mesmerizing. By far one of the best videos for wrestling I have seen.

[ajtroma]

They re-aired that syrupy, maudlin "Thank God for Kids" video while Lawler's sexual predator/rape case was happening. Made me laugh inappropriately.

[garretta]

This was a beautifully done tribute, but I notice that they didn't show any clips of Lawler going against anyone who's currently on his side, which leaves out his epic feuds with Dundee and Gilbert. They also left out his feud against Mantel, which probably meant more to Memphis than his one-and-dones with guys like Kabuki and Patera.

 

I had no problem with the part of the video about children; all of those kids, as well as the kids currently watching, probably looked up to him, and how were they supposed to know he was a perverted old lech even back in 1991?

 

Nice to hear Lance's call of the Lawler/Hennig clip; Memphis wrestling still misses him even though he's been gone for close to three years, and even though Dave's done a great job in his absence.

 

I didn't recognize any of the "celebrities" shown in the Jerry Lawler Show clips, though I'm fairly sure that one of them's supposed to be some kind of Rodney Dangerfield impersonator. Can anyone help to identify them?

 

From the Yes, I Know It's a Nitpick Department: Buddy Rogers held the NWA and the WWWF World titles simultaneously for a few months back in 1963, long before Lawler held the AWA and World Class belts simultaneously. And since when is the World Class belt supposed to be a World title, anyway?

[dawho5]

Not a huge fan of the "Thank God for Kids" deal, but mostly well done and a great tribute.

[drew wardlaw]

Incredible juxtaposition of these dramatic, emotional clips of past matches and feuds with some of the cheesiest, borderline opportunistic shots of Lawler with children with that song playing in the background. Awesome segment.