During a recent appearance on Chris Jericho’s “Talk is Jericho” podcast, Jerry Lawler discussed his recent heel turn, his heart attack during RAW and more. Here are some highlights:
On His Heart Attack Live During RAW: “A lot of people say, ‘oh, you’re blaming Dolph’ or whatever. I mean, I certainly don’t at all.” Lawler added, “my cardiologist said that it could have been caused by, I just had gotten 10 elbow drops from Dolph in that match. And you know Dolph. When he does those elbow drops, I swear, this is no lie, this is one of the few things that I remember. I remember on about number five, I was laying there, I was thinking, ‘damn, whatever happened to the days we used to do this and not kill each other?’ And sure enough, later on, I died. Five elbow drops later, I’m dead! But what the doctor said what could have happened was the impact of that could have knocked my heart off rhythm a little bit and then it took a little bit, 10 minutes, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, then 10 minutes later, I’m sitting over there at the desk, it just seized up and stopped.”
On Being The Heel Commentator: “Now, I’m sort of starting to do the heel commentator thing again and I worry because sometimes, guys really get their feelings hurt. Big Show, big time, I’ve got to be real careful about what you say about Big Show. He gets his feelings hurt real easy. And so a lot of these guys, I worry, they won’t realize, ‘hey, come on, it’s show business.’”
On Meeting Jerry Seinfeld: “I go down and here I am, backstage, and all of a sudden, here comes Jerry Seinfeld and his road manager walking in. And he was just so fascinated [by Andy Kaufman’s foray into professional wrestling]. And after we had spent like an hour with him, my girlfriend at the time says, ‘I can’t believe we got to meet Jerry Seinfeld and you did all the talking.’ I said, ‘well, that’s why we got to meet him because he wanted to hear about Andy’ and he was so fascinated with Andy Kaufman and that story. Yeah, [he wanted to know] exactly how the [David] Letterman show came about, and how we did the match, and just how that all came about.”
