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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Complete and Accurate Jerry "The King" Lawler



Out of all the Complete and Accurates we have done so far Jerry Lawler is the biggest star and probably has the biggest consensus as an elite wrestler. My motivation for this project is to see if he stands up as real GOAT candidate. Does Jerry Lawler have the matches to stand up with the all time greats? I am looking forward to revisiting some classics, and checking out some hidden gems. I am going to limit this to competitive matches, as I am not sure how many Lawler v. Rough or Lawler v. Ken Raper's I can write up. Some of the matches will be C+P'ed from other places, some of those will have Tomk and EricR comments as well. As always matches will be broken down into EPIC, GREAT, FUN and SKIPPABLE.



1974

Jerry Lawler vs. Jackie Fargo CWA 7/2/74 - GREAT

1977

Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee CWA 8/22/77 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Harley Race CWA 12/10/77 - EPIC

1978

Jerry Lawler/Bill Dundee vs. Phil Hickerson/Dennis Condrey CWA 3/78 - FUN

1979

Jerry Lawler vs. Toru Tanaka CWA 5/19/79 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Jackie Fargo/Bill Dundee vs. Larry Latham/Pete Austin/Wayne Ferris CWA 7/9/79 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Jerry Jarrett late 1979 - EPIC

1981

Jerry Lawler vs. Crusher Blackwell CWA 5/14/81 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Jimmy Hart CWA 6/29/81 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Super Destroyer CWA 11/14/81 - GREAT

1982

Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantel CWA 3/22/82 - EPIC

1984

Jerry Lawler/Blackjack Mulligan vs. Ken Patera/Jerry Blackwell AWA 3/4/84 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Rick Rude CWA 8/27/84 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler/Randy Savage vs. King Kong Bundy/Ric Rude CWA 9/17/84 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler/Tommy Rich/Jerry Oates vs. Rip Rogers/Bob Roop/Ted Oates GCW 10/31/84 - GREAT

1985

Jerry Lawler/Jimmy Valiant vs. Great Kabuki/Takashi Ishikawa 2/5/85 - FUN

1986

Jerry Lawler vs. Steven Rickard Polynesian Pro 8/9/96 - GREAT

1987

Jerry Lawler/Bill Dundee vs. Original Midnight Express AWA 10/30/87 - EPIC

1988

Jerry Lawler vs. Samoan Joe AWA 1/30/88 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Jimmy Valiant vs. Kerry Von Erich/Michael Hayes AWA 9/18/88 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Tommy Rich SPW 10/2/88 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich WCCW 11/25/88 - GREAT

1989

Jerry Lawler vs. Eric Embry USWA 9/8/89 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Kamala Great Lakes Wrestling 12/89 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Kerry Von Erich USWA 12/15/89 - FUN

1990

Jerry Lawler/Bill Dundee vs. Gary Young/John Tatum USWA 8/31/90 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk USWA 11/3/90 - EPIC

1991

Jerry Lawler vs. Eric Embry USWA 4/26/91 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart WWF Summerslam 8/30/93 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Randy Savage WWF 9/28/93 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart WWF 11/5/93 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Doug Gilbert/Reggie B. Fine USWA 12/6/93 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Doug Gilbert/Eddie Gilbert USWA 12/13/93 - FUN

1994

Jerry Lawler vs. Chris Benoit 1994 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage WWF 7/4/94 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Duke "The Dumpster" Droese WWF Raw 9/19/94 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. The Undertaker WWF 9/28/94 - FUN

1995

Jerry Lawler/Owen Hart vs. Bret Hart/British Bulldog WWF 3/19/95 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart WWF In Your House 5/14/95 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Bret Hart WWF King of the Ring 6/25/95 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler/Hakushi vs. Shawn Michaels/Bret Hart WWF 7/26/95 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Shawn Michaels WWF Raw 8/14/95 - GREAT

1996

Jerry Lawler/Isaac Yankem DDS vs. The Smoking Gunns WWF 1/6/96 - GREAT

1999

Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Jim Cornette/David Flair Tojo Yamamoto Memorial 3/31/02 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Steve Corino JAPW 8/10/02 - EPIC

2003

Jerry Lawler vs. Kamala JAPW 1/18/03 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Air Paris NAWA 4/18/03 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Shane Douglas vs. Dan Maff JAPW 12/13/03 - GREAT

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2007

2008

Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Sane NEW 3/15/08 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Mad Man Pondo 3/22/08 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Maria/Ashley vs. Santino/Beth Phoenix/Melina WWE 3/24/08 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Sane NEW 4/19/08 - EPIC

2009

Jerry Lawler/Reid Flair vs. Trevor Murdoch/Brian Anthony NEW 4/25/09 - GREAT

2010

Jerry Lawler/Beau James/Dutch Mantel vs. Jimmy Golden/Eddie Golden/Jeff Tankersley SSW 9/18/10 - GREAT

2011

Jerry Lawler vs. Tommy Dreamer NEW 1/15/11 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee SAW 1/28/11 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler/Brian Christopher vs. Bill Dundee/Jamie Dundee Evansville 3/2/11 - EPIC
Jerry Lawler/ Dr. Tim Linder vs. Bill Dundee/Dr. Brian McCarver 3/4/11 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole WWE 4/3/11 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Jack Swagger WWE 4/4/11 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Jack Swagger WWE 4/11/11 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Jim Ross vs. Michael Cole/Jack Swagger WWE 5/1/11 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Bill Dundee vs. Brian Christopher/Shane Williams Gulas OSW 7/30/11 - GREAT
Jerry Lawler/Zach Ryder vs. Michael McGillicutty/David Otunga WWE 9/5/11 - SKIPPABLE
Jerry Lawler/Dory Funk Jr./Johnny Magnum/Cory Weston vs. Luke Spencer/Shane Chung/Blain Rage/Jayson Falcone BANG 9/10/11 - FUN
Jerry Lawler/Sheamus vs. Michael McGillicutty/David Otunga WWE 9/12/11 - SKIPPABLE
Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk NEW 10/1/11 - EPIC

2012

Jerry Lawler vs. Jake Manning NEW 3/23/12 - FUN
Jerry Lawler vs. Dutch Mantel NWA-ME 7/1/12 - SKIPPABLE

2014


2018


2020

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5 Comments:

Blogger Andy said...

Pretty awesome that you've chosen Lawler for your next CaA guy. Should be interesting to see how many hidden gems you come across, because I get the sense there's potential for a bunch of really good WWF matches to show up that people have skipped over in the past. Having just finished the Texas set today, I'm also really interested in hearing about early 90s Lawler as well.

12:59 PM  
Anonymous Lawler GOAT said...

Do you happen to have a link or know if the Lawler vs Tommy Rich 1988 match is on a comp?

Love the project and all the other 'Complete and Accurate reviews'

5:04 AM  
Anonymous tigertooth said...

Interesting that the year with the most matches by far is 2011.

Is there a complete version of the Eddie Gilbert "Jimmy Hart leaves town but it's actually T.H. Hart at ringside" match? I've only seen a clipped version. If there's a full version, that might be nice.

2:52 PM  
Anonymous Thomas said...

I've been recently checking the site a lot lately. I'd love to see Bootlegs return and a CAA Jamie Dundee would be amazing.

but regardless great work guys.

12:40 AM  
Anonymous Goodhelmet said...

The Tommy Rich match is on a Schneider comp. Go to DVDVR for more info. I have not been able to find the Hart leaves Town match in full. I uploaded a ton of matches for Phil and Eric to watch. Bug Phil about the Romeo Roselli matches!

1:23 PM  

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