And As We Talked of Many Things, Fools and Kings

Jerry Lawler vs. Eric Embry USWA 4/26/91 - EPIC

This is a Texas title v. Unified title cage match. The face/heel structure has flipped from the 1989 match, as Embry is a full blown heel managed by Mr. Tojo Yammamoto. Lawler is on the mike early talking about how he has a neck injury but is fighting through it to beat on Embry. He bumps Embry around early, but stops to grab the microphone to try to get the crowd to chant Erica, Embry jumps him mid sentence and they go at it with a great back and forth punches. Embry gets the best of it, and starts brutalizing Lawler, nasty DDT, punches and elbows to the back of the neck, and even a couple of piledrivers. He would pause the beating to grab the mike and shit talk the crowd. We get an awesome Lawler strap drop comeback, before a ref bump and booking ensues. These are really two guys who work great against each other, I loved the heel Lawler v. face Embry 89 match, and this was just as good. Embry has great brutal looking offense, and such sleazy charisma, and his style fits the Lawler template perfectly.

Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee USWA 12/14/96 - GREAT

This is the cliff notes version of a Lawler v. Dundee classic. It is a studio match, No DQ, for the Unified title. I really liked the way they used the No DQ stip, as both guys would use chokes and thumbs to the eye, Lawler even breaks out his illegal in TN piledriver. Downtown Bruno did a great job telling the wrestlers what they could and couldn't do. Of course it is Lawler v. Dundee, so you get everything you would expect from that match up, awesome sneaky punches by both guys, big bumps by Lawler (he takes his through the ropes side bump to the floor and a posting), Dundee's running clips to the knee, the strap drop. I always love how Dundee deals with the Lawler strap, he never begs off or freaks out, he just doubles his effort, like he is thinking "If I hit this fuck hard enough he will put that strap back up." Finish comes with blown hubcap interference from the Nation of Domination. Such a nifty short match, I really wish we had MSC footage from this period, because I imagine their arena matches were class.

Jerry Lawler vs. Jack Swagger WWE Raw 4/4/11 - FUN

Short match, but everything in it looked good. I liked how Lawler was dipping and diving avoided Swagger, and his punches looked like Jerry Lawler was throwing punches. He has really started cracking people with the dropkick. I am not sure whether Cole v. Lawler has more legs, but Cole was a fine Jimmy Hart, although he doesn't have Hart's foot speed.


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