Tag: Jimmy Valiant

Legends Of Memphis Wrestling & Other Stuff From POP!CON

I got to attend the comic convention POP!CON in Evansville, In, where I got to meet some of the Legends of Memphis Wrestling, Jerry “The King” Lawler, “Grand Master Sexy” Brian Christopher, “the Boogie Woogie Man” “Handsome” Jimmy Valiant, “The Voice of Memphis Wrestling” Lance Russell and “Superstar” Bill Dundee. I had a blast getting to meet these guys I grew up watching.

I had the chance to talk with “Grand Master Sexay” Brian Christopher about the old days of Memphis Wrestling. He shared with me a story about his dad (Jerry “the King” Lawler”) wrestling The Giant Gonzalez at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, where Lawler threw a fireball at Gonzalez and his fur he wore on his suit caught fire, Gonzalez for real got angry at Lawler and Lawler told him if he has a problem with it he could always fire him. We talked about the great matches that I got to see in Evansville, In at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum.

Here are some of the photos I was able to take, Sorry but I realized I failed to get a photo of “Dangerous” Doug Gilbert, who was there:

Jerry Lawler

Lance Russell

Jimmy Valiant

Brian Christopher

Bill Dundee

Jerry Lawler was presented with a Super Hero of the year award.

Jerry Lawler

There was more than just wrestling at POP!CON, People were dressed in costumes of their favorite wrestlers, Super Heroes, Star Wars characters, Star Trek characters and other comic book and movie characters,  below is some photos I posted on Twitter from the event:

 

 

Ed’s Perspective: Punk Is A Coward

 

That was my original thought and comment last night and it’s still my thought today, and I’ve added the “Punk is a coward” from the headline to my original thought. I find it interesting that just as I was posting that tweet on our@DTRTWrestling twitter account, I got the following text from my partner, Trevor.

Think you should post something tomorrow talking about punks disrespect for a legend

I get that Punk is trying to make us all believe that he is a heel, and again to quote Trevor in a separate text “CM Punk is officially heel”.

Yep, I could tell that Punk was having a difficult time with the heel turn, but he’s all in now. Regardless of whether he was following orders or came up with it on his own, Punk “used” a retired legend and member of the WWE Hall of Fame to get his change over.

He had his chance to face John Cena, face-to-face, man-to-man -but no, he chose to be a coward.

Punk had just been schooled by Cena, and Punk took it out on “The King”.

 

I thought Lawler went above what was needed when he apologized to Punk for saying that Punk had turned his back on the WWE Universe. When Lawler wouldn’t, and shouldn’t have, said that Punk was the best in the world – well you can see what happened by clicking here.

I grew up watching Jerry “The King” Lawler or “Kingfish” as Jimmy “The Boogie Woogie Man” Valiant used to call him. He has been a great Ambassador for Professional Wrestling, both inside and outside of the ring. His work at the announce table has helped many people, including CM Punk, get their character over. Lawler literally carried Punk the night after Punk turn against the WWE Universe. As I said in the tweet at the very beginning, Punk couldn’t carry Lawler’s jock strap in Lawler’s prime, and obviously even now on the mic.

My late father, who started me watching Lawler, taught me most everything I know about the word “respect”. He taught me exactly what Tyson Kidd @KiddWWE said in this tweet:

And with that I repeat the headline: PUNK IS A COWARD!