Jerry Lawler: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee) was a professional wrestler. He currently works for World Wrestling Entertainment as a color commentator for its RAW brand (with Jim Ross), and still infrequently wrestles for the promotion.

He is perhaps best known not for his considerable skills as a wrestler, but for a much-publicized feud with Andy Kaufman that was later revealed to be completely contrived.

He was a co-owner, along with Jerry Jarrett, of the now defunct United States Wrestling Association, where he was also a World Champion. He left the Memphis based USWA for the WWF (now WWE) in 1993.

Jerry Lawler has made history as being the wrestler with the most championship titles of all time. He has had more than 200 titles in his career. This includes the USWA title. From its start in 1989 to its end in 1997, Jerry Lawler held the USWA heavyweight title 27 times. Of course, this statistic must be interpreted in the light of how professional wrestling operates.

In 1999, perhaps inspired by the success in Minnesota of Jesse Ventura, Lawler ran for mayor of Memphis, finishing third.

Earlier in his career, like many wrestlers, Lawler took his turns as both face ("good guy") and heel ("bad guy"). Perhaps the best gimmick of this period was his on-and-off feud with an erstwhile tag-team partner, Aussie wrestler "Superstar" Bill Dundee. A celebrated "grudge match" between the two at Memphis' Mid-South Coliseum represented a rare example of theatrical makeup blood actually being found in use at a pro wrestling event, since the match was being taped for a NBC television program documenting the rise in popularity of pro wrestling. Most blood in professional wrestling has traditionally been real, the result of "blading".

Jerry Lawler is responsible for Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart entering professional wrestling. Lawler wanted to do a wrestling album with him singing and they had gone to school together so he called Hart and asked him to be a part of it.