Given his over 30 yr stint with the WWE earlier than his departure earlier this yr, one would suppose that Jerry “The King” Lawler’s relationship with former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon through the years was fairly good. That wasn’t at all times the case, nevertheless. Lawler famously disappeared for months in 2001, after he give up WWE over the firing of his then spouse, “The Kat” Stacy Carter, and lengthy earlier than his WWE run started had a scenario with McMahon that seemingly broken their enterprise relationship earlier than it even started.
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Talking with Invoice Apter of “Sportskeeda,” Lawler revealed that years earlier than he joined WWE, he took motion in opposition to the promotion and McMahon, when the latter tried to painting one other legendary wrestler beneath Lawler’s “King” gimmick in Tennessee, the place Lawler was one of many greatest stars in wrestling on the time.
“I keep in mind I sued Vince McMahon when he introduced in Harley Race because the King in Memphis, after which in Nashville,” Lawler mentioned. “I sued him, and I gained the case.”
Regardless of the animosity the scenario generated, and Lawler’s personal perception that he and McMahon would by no means do enterprise collectively, “The King” revealed it did not take a lot for him to go and work for WWE when McMahon finally reached out to him.
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“I believed I used to be finished with him for positive then,” Lawler mentioned. “After which one thing…I do not actually know what occurred. However he simply referred to as me in the future and mentioned ‘Hey, need to come up and work for us and proceed to work in Memphis?’ And I mentioned ‘Nicely, if I can try this, then yeah, I will do it.”
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