JR Reply + how Hulk Hogan can damage a wrestling fan

Gotta reply from good ole JR,

"Posted: Fri, 02/22/2013 - 7:31pm in
Wrestling
Kit_lambert Asks:


just wanna ask something that's really been bugging me for a long while (more so since the pull-out of Olympic wrestling). You say WWE is a TV show & they call themselves an entertainment show also, so my Q is where does that leave guys like Memphis Wrestler Jerry Lawler, Bare-Knuckle fighter Wade Barrett, William Regal, who fought in clubs & carnivals for money & a no nonsense guy like Roddy Piper & will WWE be pushing these types of sports like qualities? these guys are the reason i'm a life-long wrestling fan, king's not wrestling yet, Piper's rarely there so that leaves Barrett as the only current wrestler/superstar with outside talent. last thing, do you see general pro wrestling coming back as a sport alongside boxing again?

J.R.'s Answer:

I think the smart way to look at this is to separate what men did at one point in their life and what they did/do once they arrived in pro wrestling. Two different careers. Pro wrestling has always been entertainment based."

i kinda feel at ease now, knowing this, i guess it's just depends on what your level of entertainment is whether your a Brock or a Rock, nobody's the same, though there's gotta be a guy out there with King's right hand, Barrett's elbow & Sheamus' boot - the ultimate He-Man, the Master Of The WWE Universe

And last of all, i just wish @HulkHogan would just shut up!!!, He told a UK TV show that he's best pals with Sting  whom he was wrestling the following Sunday, now my brother thinks is fake,

Yet @JerryLawler says different.

i feel like i'm in my own wrestling match as ppl keep saying stupid stuff about wrestling, in a way i'm glad for JR's opinion, i just wish he'd show this side of JR more than the critique, as as i'm getting HH's comments in my ear from non-believers

Lastly that don't explain why JBL  apologized to Primo & Epico on twitter..  be a man & apologize in the ring & await the reply

#BOOM!!!!!!!

Personal...

Re: A look ahead: Lawler's road back to the ring


My Grandad, had his own business + he was a keen artist (mostly landscapes), he never exercised, just sat in the garden painting most of the time. Then 8 years ago i got a call from my mom saying he'd died from a cardiac arrest, i was shocked, he was so gifted, well-spoken & elegant in his letter-writing, though mostly he kept to himself, never one to bother anyone or out-stay his welcome, I wish he had been, as i'd have the guidance & career i've always wanted, though it wasn't until he'd died & mom told me i'd reminded her of him.
Part if me wanted to go with him, there's nothing for me here, all the greats have gone, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, even Andy Kaufman, nothing to aspire to, then i saw Jerry Lawler's artwork on kingjerrylawler.com  which gave me some direction & went back to college & hopefully i'm on the road to become the artist i wanna be...well within the modern era (aside from comics T Shirts have become the new canvas).
Sept 10th last year i saw Jerry having a heart attack on @WWE #Raw,It felt like my grandad all over again, worried,  i switched over to the news channels... nothing, the morning newspapers, hardly anything, sometimes i wonder why WWE'S broadcast in the UK when all we care about is Hulk Hogan & Hulkamania, nothing else gets much publicity here. All i could rely on is Memphis News online & of course WWE.
I started thinking of myself more, i love meat, any meat, red meat, beef, pork, duck, etc, Chicken's my favourite, but that had to be cut down & afer a history of Alcoholism in the family, i'd only drink Coca-Cola,
Then it's trying to persuede mom to exercise & lose weight be more healthy as i fear she'll go the same way as her dad - my grandad
There'll never be another Jerry Lawler, Roddy Piper Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Screaming Jay Hawkins, John Lee Hooker &  no-one will ever take the place of my grandad - i just wish people will learn from them & live the life they lead/led, to someone somewhere these people will mean something to them as they do me, if they just open there minds & hearts (no pun intended)

reality

in a world of Justin Beiber & @JohnCena, i probably don't fit in, my interests are Rock n Roll, american blues, boxing & wrestling, i also love reality tv, but it's kinda gotten silly now.

wrestling
seems a lot of the serious wrestling fans come from the 70's - likes of big daddy & giant haystacks- most fans, promotions today seem to prefer the entertainment value, nothing wrong with that but it's how you create & sell it. Andy Kaufman was an entertainer who loved wrestling & fancied his chances agaist @JerryLawler having wrestled women previously, this can still work & wwe has a celeb wing on the HOF but the celebs (other than wrestlemania) have seemed to have dried up.

 wrestlers need to be wrestlers or wrestling superstars not just entertainers, 

& the great thing with Andy, nobody knew if he was serious or not, if i tweet "what the hell's up with CM Punk?" i guarantee someone will tweet back "it's in the script", it's impossible to hate the heel or be at the edge of the seat in suspense.

As of the 70's i saw several programs - one of thema dating show take me out & a contestants dad was a wrestling fan, which prompted host Paddy McGuinness to ask each hopeful who's looking for a date to ask "do you like wrestling by any chance?" with a laugh from the audience. Apprentice Winner @RickyMartin247 was a pro-wrestler, which got some jokes from Dara O'Brien & @Lord_Sugar with a laugh from the audience. In a country of TNA british bootcamps, Ricky's no longer wrestling prefering to work with Lord Sugar, & there was me thinking he's gonna put british wrestling back on the map by appearing on prime-time reality show, so the only person in UK to respect the sport of wrestling is 2007 Big \brother UK contestant @LukeMarsden,

 which brings me to reality tv -

 Andy Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, it's true as of Big Brother, etc, but  i don't think Warhol meant be famous for doing nothing, there's a world of art, a world of poetry, a world of wrestling, yet it's being ignored

 & yet the majority of the people in the uk are out of work & the government fail to recognize creativity in the uk, it costs an arm and leg to go see a wwe event, yet when you go to work, the majority of conversation is about saturday's football & not sunday's Wrestlemania/Royal Rumble/King Of The Ring,

 & regarding the media, when @JerryLawler had a heart attack on global wrestlinng show Monday Night Raw, the UK press failed to mention it or just have a snippet without any follow-up

musically -

Oasis were inspired by The Beatles who wre inspired by American rock n roll, but nooboy's been inspired by Oasis,  nobody's captured the essence of Rock n Roll & Blues , partly i blame X Factor, but you gotta look at @JamesArthur to see it's not entirely their fault, a majority of contestants are young & impressionable & to them it's all about the big names like Britney Spears, Kylie, Robbie & Take That. It's about them fitting into Society. what the people wanna hear, it's not about gut-wrenching passion anymore.

Welcome to Reality 2013

Jerry lawler's heart attack & more

I was always a fan of Jerry Lawler since i was a kid, as a batman fan his heel kinda reminded me of Burgess Meredith's penguin,& thought he was a lotta fun - i never really got the burger king thing (world wide, popular, everybody's favourite food chain, didn't really sound heel to me), but at the time it was just that, a favourite wrestler, commentator along with Double J Jeff Jarrett
though all of that changed recently, when King had a/the heart attack. I lost my granddad 8 years ago to a heart attack, same thing as Jerry, no pre warning signs, just came out the bathroom one morning & collapsed on the bedroom floor...then gone.
I watched Monday night raw that night & just re-lived that whole conversation i had with my mom over the phone, i checked the global 24hr news but nothing, the only info i could available was online from the states (you'd thought with wwe being global, the British press woulda been as hot as the American press was).
Losing Jerry woulda been like losing a best friend, my life ain't easy, but Jerry makes you wanna trudge along no matter how hard it can be - one day i might get lucky in life, love, money, career.

I've always wanted to be an artist/designer since i left school in 1999, only problem was these things cost money - money i don't have, and being a fan of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat & the art-rock scene of 80's New York, today (according to what i was told) is dated - like strumming a battered guitar & singing the blues on an old street corner....today there's the x factor/Idol/Got Talent - but one thing about Jerry Lawler, he's never changed ...much (only healthier), which is probably the biggest inspiration i got from him - people come, people go, some like you, some don't, just as long as you're yourself.