Jeff Jarrett says today’s wrestling stars can get an invaluable education by watching Jerry Lawler‘s work in Memphis.
During a new episode of Under The Ring with Phil Strum, Jeff Jarrett spoke about Jerry Lawler being a great resource for the wrestling world today. Jarrett said that Lawler, who recently suffered a stroke, taught him a lot and he’s not sure that today’s talent and fans truly understand how good Lawler was in Memphis.
“I think — and I just saw this recently with his health scare — The King is going to pull down that strap again, I’m not going to say for the last time because it will happen over and over again,” Jarrett said, “he’ll make his big comeback, but positive great news coming out of his health situation.
“So many people know Jerry from the Attitude Era and on, and he’s The King with great one-liners and a color commentator. Some people don’t even realize how good he was at that — I know JR — but Lawler and [Vince] McMahon were very good as well. Just Jerry’s skill set with his mouth, but you go back into the King of Memphis when he was a big babyface, which was phenomenal, but what got him to that mountain top was something that I don’t think people really understand. He was the heel that the entire territory was built around. It was Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler and he was an incredible talker, great bump taker, his timing was unbelievable,” Jarrett explained. “Yes, his punches were unbelievable, but at the end of the day, there’s nothing Jerry really can’t do in this business as far as being a performer.
“I think it would do a lot of good for young performers to just go back and watch his catalog. Watch as much as you can and you have to apply it to today’s standards and move through it,” Jarrett added. “His pacing and timing, I learned — I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned from him over the years. I got lucky to go on before him for years and years and he’d do the main event, I’d watch, but I’d be in a lot of them with him. There’s nothing like that education of absorbing a great, and he is an all-time great.”
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