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* TheCastShowoff: Lawler is a decent cartoonist, which was put into an angle with him and the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in the mid-90's when Warrior's comic series came out. He also did the illustrations for Mick Foley's WWE Christmas-themed children's book.
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* TheCastShowoff: Lawler is a decent cartoonist, which was put into an angle with him and the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in the mid-90's when Warrior's comic series came out. That portrait Lawler offered Warrior? He actually did paint it himself. He also did the illustrations for Mick Foley's WWE Christmas-themed children's book.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Lawler has admitted saying, "That's it, he's dead," after Wrestling/MickFoley went through the Hell in a Cell roof was not trying to be dramatic as a commentator but legit concern.
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* FanNickname: His detractors call him the "Advertising/TheBurgerKing".
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Author Existence Failure (now renamed to Died During Production) is a trope for dying before finishing a work, not anytime a creator died.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Jerry's book, ''It's Good To Be The King... Sometimes'', Jerry almost managed to get Music/ElvisPresley (yes, ''that'' Elvis Presley) involved with Memphis Wrestling in some capacity, and even got to speak with his father, Vernon Presley, on the phone to iron out some details about it. Unfortunately, this was 1977, and we all know what kind of condition Elvis was in by then - in fact, a few weeks after that phone call, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Memphis was down a King.]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Jerry's book, ''It's Good To Be The King... Sometimes'', Jerry almost managed to get Music/ElvisPresley (yes, ''that'' Elvis Presley) involved with Memphis Wrestling in some capacity, and even got to speak with his father, Vernon Presley, on the phone to iron out some details about it. Unfortunately, this was 1977, and we all know what kind of condition Elvis was in by then - in fact, a few weeks after that phone call, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Memphis was down a King.]]
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Nearly hit him ''hard,'' as he suffered a heart attack during an episode of RAW in 2012. Fortunately, he survived. It did put an end to his feud with Michael Cole.
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* DiedDuringProduction: Nearly hit him ''hard,'' as he suffered a heart attack during an episode of RAW in 2012. Fortunately, he survived. It did put an end to his feud with Michael Cole.
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* TheCastShowoff: Lawler is a decent cartoonist, which was put into an angle with him and the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior in the mid-90's when Warrior's comic series came out. He also did the illustrations for Mick Foley's WWE Christmas-themed children's book.
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** When Jerry walked out on WWE in 2001, he claimed he'd been sitting on a larger contract offer from WCW for several months. He'd have probably shown up there if the company wasn't six weeks from sundown at the time.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Nearly hit him ''hard,'' as he suffered a heart attack during an episode of RAW in 2012. Fortunately, he survived. It did put an end to his feud with Michael Cole.
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* RealSongThemeTune
** (in [=WWE=]): Modest [=Mussorgsky=]'s "The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev)" (from his famous piano suite ''Pictures At An Exhibition''. It's the same music Wrestling/HarleyRace and [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Haku]] used during their runs as the "King of the WWF.")
** (in Wrestling/{{ECW}} in 1997): Roger [=Miller=]'s "King of the Road" and Marc [=Cohn=]'s "Walking in Memphis"
** (in [=WWE=]): Modest [=Mussorgsky=]'s "The Bogatyr Gates (in the Capital in Kiev)" (from his famous piano suite ''Pictures At An Exhibition''. It's the same music Wrestling/HarleyRace and [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Haku]] used during their runs as the "King of the WWF.")
** (in Wrestling/{{ECW}} in 1997): Roger [=Miller=]'s "King of the Road" and Marc [=Cohn=]'s "Walking in Memphis"
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series. He used the GoodIsDumb quote from ''Film/SpaceBalls'' nearly verbatim on the 250th episode of RAW and in 2015 posted a picture of himself with a group cosplaying as the cast on Twitter.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The 2007 version of Memphis Wrestling was screwed by WWE, who didn't want Lawler working with [=VH1=] and Wrestling/HulkHogan
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The 2007 version of Memphis Wrestling was screwed by WWE, who didn't want Lawler working with [=VH1=] and Wrestling/HulkHoganHulk Hogan
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* ScrewedByTheNewtwork: The 2007 version of Memphis Wrestling was screwed by WWE, who didn't want Lawler working with [=VH1=] and Wrestling/HulkHogan
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Lawler many dates with women in the wrestling business are infamous, with The Kat being the most publicized case, most others being {{open secret}}s.
* ScrewedByTheNewtwork: The 2007 version of Memphis Wrestling was screwed by WWE, who didn't want Lawler working with [=VH1=] and Wrestling/HulkHogan
* ScrewedByTheNewtwork: The 2007 version of Memphis Wrestling was screwed by WWE, who didn't want Lawler working with [=VH1=] and Wrestling/HulkHogan
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series. He used the GoodIsDumb quote from ''Film/SpaceBalls'' nearly verbatim on the 250th episode of RAW and in 2015 posted a picture of himself with the cast on Twitter.
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series. He used the GoodIsDumb quote from ''Film/SpaceBalls'' nearly verbatim on the 250th episode of RAW and in 2015 posted a picture of himself with a group cosplaying as the cast on Twitter.
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series. He used the GoodIsDumb quote from ''Film/SpaceBalls'' nearly verbatim on the 250th episode of RAW and in 2015 posted a picture of himself with the cast on Twitter.
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* ActorAllusion: As with most wrestlers turned announcers, things from his career are referred to at times. For example, during the Wrestling/BretHart vs. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels match at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XII'', Lawler asked "How'd he kick out of a piledriver?!" The piledriver, of course, is his finisher.
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** As with most wrestlers turned announcers, things from his career are referred to at times. For example, during the Wrestling/BretHart vs. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels match at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XII'', Lawler asked "How'd he kick out of a piledriver?!" The piledriver, of course, is hisfinisher.finisher.
** In the movie ''Girls Gone Dead'', his character kills the villain with a piledriver.
** As with most wrestlers turned announcers, things from his career are referred to at times. For example, during the Wrestling/BretHart vs. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels match at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XII'', Lawler asked "How'd he kick out of a piledriver?!" The piledriver, of course, is his
** In the movie ''Girls Gone Dead'', his character kills the villain with a piledriver.
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* FanNickname: His detractors call him the "Advertising/TheBurgerKing"
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to Jerry's book, ''It's Good To Be The King... Sometimes'', Jerry almost managed to get Music/ElvisPresley (yes, ''that'' Elvis Presley) involved with Memphis Wrestling in some capacity, and even got to speak with his father, Vernon Presley, on the phone to iron out some details about it. Unfortunately, this was 1977, and we all know what kind of condition Elvis was in by then - in fact, a few weeks after that phone call, [[AuthorExistenceFailure Memphis was down a King.]]
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}} ''Series/{{Batman}}'' series.
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* OneOfUs: Lawler is a collector of Coca-Cola and Franchise/{{Superman}} merchandise, and owns a replica of the Batmobile from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}} series.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Lawler has admitted in [[http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/quicknews/article_55004.shtml a 2011 interview]] that he hasn't been interested in calling matches for years and the only reason he still does announcing these days is for the paycheck.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Lawler has admitted in [[http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/quicknews/article_55004.shtml a 2011 interview]] that he hasn't been interested in calling matches for years and the only reason he still does announcing these days is for the paycheck. That hasn't stopped him from crying to Vince and arranging to have Matt Stryker downsized for mocking his ignorance.
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* ActorAllusion: As with most wrestlers turned announcers, things from his career are referred to at times. For example, during the Wrestling/BretHart vs. Wrestling/ShawnMichaels match at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} XII'', Lawler asked "How'd he kick out of a piledriver?!" The piledriver, of course, is his finisher.
* [[FanNickname Fan Anti-Nickname]]:"Advertising/TheBurgerKing""Advertising/TheBurgerKing"
* MoneyDearBoy: Lawler has admitted in [[http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/quicknews/article_55004.shtml a 2011 interview]] that he hasn't been interested in calling matches for years and the only reason he still does announcing these days is for the paycheck.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Lawler has admitted in [[http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/quicknews/article_55004.shtml a 2011 interview]] that he hasn't been interested in calling matches for years and the only reason he still does announcing these days is for the paycheck.
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