You never know what’s going to happen at an NBA game. Fans in attendance at one game on Friday night learned that is the case.
At the Memphis Grizzlies game, former WWE superstar Jeff Jarrett faced WWE Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler in about a five-minute match in a small wrestling ring above the crowd.
As seen in the videos below, the two wrestlers did some trash talking about each other's cities. Eventually, Jarrett got the win once he hit Lawler over the back with a guitar. You can see the videos here and here in case they do no load.
Jarrett has worked for various promotions in his professional wrestling career. He founded TNA Wrestling back in 2002 as well as Global Force Wrestling. He has worked for WCW and WWE.
In total, he has won 77 titles throughout his career and is an 11-time world champion. NWA World Heavyweight Championship six times, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship four times and the AAA Mega Championship on one occasion.
While in the WWE, he is a six-time Intercontinental Champion. Also, he is one of four wrestlers to hold both the Intercontinental and European titles at the same time.
On the flip side, Lawler has won 168 championships throughout his career. By breaking it down, he’s a one-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion and a three-time WCWA World Heavyweight Champion. Lawler has held more championships than any other current WWE wrestler.
At his age, some could argue that Lawler needs to stop wrestling. However, in an interview last year with pro wrestling journalist and 1Wrestling.com Editor-in-Cheif Bill Apter, the WWE Hall of Famer explained why he still wrestles. Here is what he had to say (transcript courtesy of WrestleZone):
“I still love to get in the ring as often as possible because quite simply that’s why I got in to this business. I never started in this business wanting to be a commentator or announcer… I wanted to be a wrestler.
The commentating thing just kinda came along twenty-four years ago and just kind of fell in my lap because Randy Savage was doing the commentary alongside Vince McMahon and all of a sudden Randy jumped ship without any notice.
We were stuck with no announcer and I was going out to wrestle and Vince McMahon came to me and said, “Do you mind doing the commentary tonight? I’ll have somebody ready to go next week.”
Twenty-four years later and I’m still doing commentary. What I missed out on is twenty-four years of wrestling. I didn’t get in this to be a commentator I got in to this to be a wrestler. So I’m no longer active doing the commentary, not on a weekly basis.
I just did the Royal Rumble and I’ll be hosting the Hall of Fame and all of that stuff but I still like to be active in the ring. People say, “Oh, your heart!” And all of that. Well being active and doing wrestling is the best thing for your heart. You don’t want to just become sedentary sitting on the couch somewhere.”
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