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Post by TheSystem 1.5 on Jun 6, 2015 17:00:05 GMT -5
Jerry Lawler's hate for ECW HAD to be a work. For one, he wrestled and did appearances in ECW during that time frame!! And two, they even had ECW work with USWA down in Memphis. And speaking of which, no way could Jerry Lawler think ECW was "Extremely Crappy Wrestling" when for years in Memphis that style of wrestling was being done. The blood and guts style wrestling. I mean, let's face it.... Jerry Lawler got hit by a car driven by Eddie Gilbert!! I don't ever recall any hit and runs in ECW with vehicles. The WWE needed a heel to hate on ECW, and Jerry Lawler was the perfect guy for that role. Maybe Jerry didn't like Heyman at the time personally, but I am sure he wasn't that hateful towards ECW as he says he was. I always took it as less real hatred because of the type of wrestling they did, but more of thinking that Vince shouldn't have been giving up time to the ECW guys rather than using that time to showcase his own talent. I swear Lawler said something like that in an interview somewhere. The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD.
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Post by The Sexy Psychotic on Jun 6, 2015 17:08:21 GMT -5
Real nice episode, watched it for the first time yesterday, totally did not expect to see LOD come out, and the ECW stuff was cool, just another layer the show had on offer that week. I do think that Lawler was being legit, or atleast to a point he was, I remember during one of the Round Table discussions that Lawler admitted to breaking Heyman's jaw on purpose during that time frame.But no doubt he did alot for ECW, no doubt, so of course he had to have some sort of love or atleast respect for the company Lawler broke Heyman's jaw in like 1986 or 1987 when Heyman was like 21 or 22 years old. It wasn't during the ECW time frame when he broke his jaw. Oh for real, sorry haha, my bad
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Post by Tyler Black on Jun 6, 2015 20:29:58 GMT -5
Just finished watching this episode, for me the highlight of the episode is the WWE not editing out the woman, screaming "YOU ING BITCH" at sunny during the arm wrestling match. The heel heat she got from female fans, yet face reactions she got from male fans she got no matter how much a c*** she was to them was incredible. Also how great was sabu?!? Guy nearly lands on his neck from that dive off the raw sign. Sabu wasn't the best wrestler, but the guy had balls and was entertaining as hell. Vince should've signed sabu and RVD as a tag team in 98. They would've had an amazing 99/00 with the Hardys, E&C, and the Dudleys
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Post by WalterF on Jun 7, 2015 3:58:29 GMT -5
Lawler has even admitted he was not only shooting on heyman, but Ecw itself. He did think it was crappy stuff, he just cross promoted because Vince wanted to and it was all set up.
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