Jerry Lawler

And like, if you watch like rewatch, like WrestleMania 26 in Phoenix, sitting directly behind the commentators is me, uh, my buddy, Danny, Kieran Culkin and Emma Stone.

And we're directly behind Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole, the whole show.

And yeah, so, and then they had this party afterwards and it's like all the wrestlers and me and Billy Corgan.

Right.

The guy in the front row just laughing.

Jerry Lawler would get it right.

Oh, my God.

Walking in Memphis.

Yeah.

I was listening to Wrestling Observer this week, and it was pointed out that this is a Jerry Lawler thing.

where you bring in, he said it was Bam Bam Bigelow, Kamala, someone else.

Basically, this new person would come to the territory, destroy Lawler, who's obviously, you know, at the top of the heap there.

yeah

you'd have to go Foley Foley Funk to me and even like Jerry Lawler That stuff is so good.

You could say...

But

Go check it out.

It's on YouTube in Memphis.

Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk.

Yeah.

For all real purposes, it appears we're going to officially send to the death of the United States Wrestling Association.

The group, which was the latest of numerous names throughout the years of the promotion, owned by Jerry Jarrett, and later Jarrett and Jerry Lawler, dating back to the late 70s, when Jared can't control the territory of Nick Goulas, at this point doesn't exist except as a name on a lawsuit.

Mason Granger, the general manager of WCTV in Memphis, which had been the flagship station for the promotion since before Jared even owned it, officially canceled pro wrestling a few weeks back.

Contrary to stories circulating within the industry, Granger has made it clear he isn't interested in adding a new wrestling show to his station, having turned down a number of promotions.

There had been a deal worked out between the two sides and followed in a USWA lawsuit.

the Larry Burton, Jerry Lawler side, and the Mark Selker side to attempt to set the company's most valuable asset, the WMC-TV slot, by having a neutral party, namely former USWA general manager Randy Hales produce a weekly television show before the court decides who controls USWA.

But that deal fell apart before it started.

Eh, give it six months.

And the reason that was, was because you could, you could trust yourself to not screw yourself over essentially.

So like Fritz is his top star, his own top star in the same way that Jerry Lawler was the top star in Memphis and Eddie Graham was the top star in Florida.

And these guys, they have a stake in the promotion.

And Vern Ghanian, the AWA, like they don't want to trust it to somebody else because that person might not be as interested in making sure that it succeeds as you are inherently.

And you gotta wonder if

Jerry Lawler may be in a little trouble next week if Paul Lee shows up.

with the rest of his buddies.

What a vision.

Are any promoters attempting to match you up, Luke, against other former Tough Enough contestants?

A couple got... at me like right away after the show was done and i just was not interested in doing that kind of cheesy novelty act um like someone wanted me to wrestle skid marks and uh you know anything short of just whooping that kid's ass all over the place uh wouldn't sit by sit right by me so yeah a few have but mostly um mostly i've been fortunate i got to work jerry lawler recently um again tommy dreamer robbie coming up so mostly it's been You know, higher profile opponent, so that's been pretty cool.

But, yeah, there were some of the cheese factors that wanted me to do, you know, you versus Skidmark.

It would be cool.

All right.

And let's see, one more before we start wrapping things up.

Lion Tamer wants to know, have you had a chance to talk to guys like Jerry Lawler to get further advice and guidance?

What were the other ones, Jerry Lawler and who?