On September 10th, 2012, Hall of Fame wrestler and announcer Jerry "The King" Lawler took his seat at the announcer's table with fellow Monday Night Raw announcer Michael Cole when he began speaking gibberish. Soon after, Lawler began having a heart attack.
The incident was very serious, leaving Lawler clinically dead for several minutes according to reports. While he was being brought back to life, Cole pleaded with Raw viewers on the air to realize that Lawler's plight was very real and not part of any script.
Less than a full year later, Lawler has been cleared by doctors to return to in-ring action. At the time of the heart attack, doctors feared that "The King" would suffer brain damage due to the length of time he was in cardiac arrest; his girlfriend Lauryn McBride, tweeted two days after his incident to clear up those facts. "Also, the rumor statutes that he was brain dead or had brain damage is completely FALSE. His CT scan of his brain came back NORMAL & he is just fine!" Lawler returned to the announcer's table in November of 2012.
Lawler is scheduled to wrestle in a tag-team match on May 25th for !Bang wrestling, with 72-year-old Dory Funk Jr. According to Yahoo! Sports, Funk Jr., while older, routinely performs with the wrestlers he trains in his school.
According to WWE.com, Lawler is a former AWA and WCCW world heavyweight champion, as well as a 2007 WWE Hall of Fame inductee. His signature maneuvers are the piledriver and the flying fist drop.
"The King" joined the WWE in 1992, and in his run of over two decades has involved himself in feuds with everyone from wrestlers at the top of the wrestling ladder such as Bret "The Hitman" Hart and CM Punk, to celebrities like comedian Andy Kaufman, who claimed to be the "Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World."
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