Lawler Talks about Vince’s Yelling on Foley’s Commentating, Jericho Youtube, King Lawler Cruise and More
The Sun UK got an recent interview with Raw announcer Jerry “The King” Lawler. Here are a few highlights:
Mick Foley was very vocal when he left WWE, saying Vince McMahon was shouting in his headset and telling the announcers off too much. Is that true?
Let’s face it, Vince is the man who owns the company and he has definite ideas about how he wants things done.
And if you do something that he doesn’t approve of, then he’s going to let you know it.
I don’t know if I’m fortunate, or if Vince is just a big fan of my work, but he absolutely in the 15 years of me doing it has never ever yelled at me. Not even once.
I was surprised when I heard that from Mick.
But Vince has a direct line to every announcer.
If we’re doing a broadcast and Vince wants to say something to me, Michael Cole doesn’t hear it, and the same goes with Michael Cole.
So occasionally, after a show, Michael will say: Oh man, Vince yelled at me when I screwed this up.
But if you’re out there doing a good job, and saying what you’re supposed to say, he’s not going to yell at you!
Did you see that Chris Jericho clip on our website or YouTube? What did you think of it?
I have not seen it but I heard them talking about it last week at the show – Vince was kinda chuckling about it.
Vince and I were talking and Jericho walked by and he said: Watch out! Jericho will hit you! He’ll knock you right down!
Then he adds: Especially if you’re a girl!
Everybody is having a joke about it and to me it’s not a big deal, because that used to be very prevalent in the past.
We used to be able to get the fans so riled up that they literally wanted to physically attack you after the matches.
That hasn’t happened in a long time, so it’s almost like hats off to Chris Jericho – for doing his job.
He’s being the best bad guy that he can be.
And it’s working as he’s making the people so mad at him that they want to get physical with him themselves.
I’m not surprised you’re tired – as well as all the stuff we’ve spoken about I hear you’re also launching Jerry Lawler’s cruise events?
Yes, I have a Caribbean cruise project I’m working on. It’s going to go on July 30.
It’s going to be an opportunity to go on a four-day cruise and I’m working right now on getting my buddy JR to go along. It’s just going to be a fun thing.
People can take a relaxing four-day cruise and JR and I will be part of the entertainment, and having dinner and showing wrestling videos and all that kind of stuff.
It’s basically a great time cruising the Caribbean with some wrestling fans.
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