Jerry Lawler Suffered Heart Attack During RAW; In Stable Condition

[EmpireWF]

Lawler may have been unconscious but they took him away during the match.

He had just worked a match earlier in the show and returned to commentary. During the next match, awkward sounds could be heard like someone was having trouble breathing. Then commentary stopped, you could see Cole reaching beneath the table, the guys in the ring stalled and everyone in the crowd was up and staring at the table.

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Cole says they're doing CPR on Lawler in the back.

Updates to come...

 

[Dan The Man]

Just got some serious Owen Hart flashbacks. This is bad.

 

[EmpireWF]

Update from Cole, Lawler is on his way to hospital, receiving oxygen but IS breathing on his own.

 

[MrBill]

Damn. Good to hear he is breathing on his own and hope he makes a full recovery soon.

 

[EmpireWF]

He's in ER waiting for a CT scan. He's responding to stimulus so that's a good sign.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Seizure or Heartattack...

WHAT U GOT?

 

[JayDizzle]

Barring being a morbid SOB... I heard he grabbed his arm and went down after having trouble breathing.

Had to be a heart attack.

 

[krulmichael]

Think it was definitely a stroke, encouraging to hear he's stabilized though. Relatively sure that we saw his last match tonight though, it's been long overdue though.

 

[EmpireWF]

Saw this point mentioned on the Meltzer board, although it doesn't mean much, it's beyond an amazing thing that whether he had a stroke/heart attack/whatever, it happened at a WWE show and not some shitty indy. Medical personnel was able to reach him as soon as he went into distress and do what they were trained to do.

At your average indy, odds are the people call 911 and have to wait however long.

 

[krulmichael]

Saw this point mentioned on the Meltzer board, although it doesn't mean much, it's beyond an amazing thing that whether he had a stroke/heart attack/whatever, it happened at a WWE show and not some shitty indy. Medical personnel was able to reach him as soon as he went into distress and do what they were trained to do.

At your average indy, odds are the people call 911 and have to wait however long.

Yea, not to sound insensitive at all, but if you're going to have a heart attack/stroke or for that matter any serious health issue, a live national broadcasted program is probably the "safest" place to have one.

 

[dave]

Hope Lawler comes out of this OK. Frankly, he's a role model. He makes me feel almost moral.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I'm not a fan of Lawler as a commentator and never have been, but he's on the (very) short list of legitimate local legends and one of the top draws in North American wrestling history. A truly historical figure and Hall of Famer in any credible wrestling hall of fame. Thank god the man didn't die on the air, and it looks like he's going to make it.

Somebody on twitter said that they should pull his strap down in the hospital, because Jerry needs a big comeback. What an awesome line.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

And then there is this:

“Just heard about Lawler…fuck that racist motherfucka…die slow,you fucking cock sucker. If lawler dies,let me know where his grave is so,I can go piss on it…fuck that bitch. Please let me know where they put that fucka in the ground so,I can piss on his grave. HELL TO THE KING…OOOOPS I MEANT HAIL…LOL…FCK HIM. Bitch,I’m not here to make you happy and if what I said hurts…GO FUCK YOURSELF…FAN. I don’t work for a fucking fan so,if what I say hurts ur lil white feeling…SO FUCKING WHAT…YOU ARE FOLLOWING ME BITCH BOY!!!!!!!!!!!”

wow, what an attention whore

 

[dave]

New Jack is a crack addict asshole.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

His gf said it was a heartattack.

He actually DIED backstage, but the revived him.

Almost had a Masawa death on our hands.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I spent half a day in Memphis once. There was Lawler, hawking some shit product on a giant billboard, and then again at Corky's BBQ in the lobby on a giant autographed poster. I suspect if I had spent a week there, I would have seen Lawler's face a hundred more times. In Memphis, if Elvis is 1A, Lawler is 1B.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I spent half a day in Memphis once. There was Lawler, hawking some shit product on a giant billboard, and then again at Corky's BBQ in the lobby on a giant autographed poster. I suspect if I had spent a week there, I would have seen Lawler's face a hundred more times. In Memphis, if Elvis is 1A, Lawler is 1B.

He's still 1B and wrestling is basically irrelevant nationally. Guy could run for mayor of Memphis and win in a landslide. The day Lawler dies, the city of Memphis will close business for a day. That's real talk.

I hate WWE Jerry Lawler's character...the commentating sucks, when he was a wrestler, he was crap.

But Memphis and Territory Jerry. I actually dig a lot of the shit they did. He's got a plethora of memorable moments, whether its Andy Kaufman or fireballs to the face or feuding in the AWA.

(it'll take you to the rest)

 

[s@ppisgod]

Saw this point mentioned on the Meltzer board, although it doesn't mean much, it's beyond an amazing thing that whether he had a stroke/heart attack/whatever, it happened at a WWE show and not some shitty indy. Medical personnel was able to reach him as soon as he went into distress and do what they were trained to do.

At your average indy, odds are the people call 911 and have to wait however long.

Really? That was one of my first thoughts. They had docs on standby and even Cole mentioned an ambulance being on-hand at the end of the show. The only place he would have been better off is having it in a hospital. If he would have been at home or a hotel, he'd be dead.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Lawler needs to go on a fucking vacation.

That nigga has worked 365 for 40 years.

Take a break.

The creepiest part of the broadcast was going back and listening to him starting to slur his speech about 5 minutes before the heartattack. You can tell he had something wrong with him but he was fighting through it to get through the broadcast...stumbling his words, slurring speech, a bit of lethargy in his voice. Pretty creepy shit knowing in hindsight that he's suffering the start of a heart attack.

 

[Aso]

I would legitimately be sad if he died. Happy to hear he is doing alright.