[1998-08-29-MPPW-TV] Randy Hales and Jerry Lawler

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

They recap the affair accusations from last week. Stacy sends in a taped response to everything that came out last week. She says Randy Hales is doing everything in his power that he can to hurt Jerry Lawler and nothing is working. She says everything said was false. Back at the studio, Hales asks Lawler to come out and promises this is not a setup. He just wants to talk to him and make sure he knows the truth. Hales again brings up Lawler's ex-wife and talks about how Stacy ruined his life. He says he can prove she's cheating on him. He has a postcard from Brandon Baxter in Florida with the postmark date to prove it. Lawler rips up the postcard and stands off a group of heels. This is like Austin-Adams combined with Austin-McMahon.

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Hales is starting to amount some impressive proof as the postcard from Baxter seems legit. I liked Lawler playing this up by wanting to believe Stacy but starting to see that the evidence was starting to swing towards Hales being right. This has now taken a nice detour from where the McMahon vs. Austin feud currently stands.

[PeteF3]

Probably Hales at his best--he's become pretty fully comfortable on-camera and the awkwardness is at a minimum here as he does a fine job of keeping up with a guy who can eat you alive if you can't talk. I also like how he's couching this as wanting to help Lawler as a friend, just to increase the mystery factor of it all--is Hales sincere, is Baxter working him, is this a plan between the two, or is he even being played by Stacy & Lawler?