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He is perhaps best known not for his considerable skills as a wrestler, but for a much-publicized feud with Andy Kaufman that was later revealed to be completely contrived ("a total work" in wrestling parlance). This feud included a widely seen confrontation between the two on the David Letterman show.

He was a co-owner, along with Jerry Jarrett , of the now-defunct United States Wrestling Association, where he was also a World Champion. He left the Memphis-based USWA for the WWF (now WWE) in 1993. Amazingly, Lawler only held the USWA Heavyweight Title a grand total of twice, which came the year before the promotion closed.

Jerry Lawler has made history as being the wrestler with the most championship titles of all time. He has had more than 200 titles in his career. This includes the USWA title. From its start in 1989 to its end in 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t, Jerry Lawler held the USWA heavyweight title a total of 27 times. Of course, this statistic must be interpreted in the light of how professional wrestling operates.

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Earlier in his career, like many wrestlers, Lawler took his turns as both faceIn professional wrestling jargon, a face is a character who is portrayed as being moral or approving that is, faces are "good guys" or "crowd favourites". The vast majority of wrestling angles (or storylines) though not all place a heel (or bad guy) again ("good guy") and heelIn professional wrestling, a heel is a character who is portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner; sometimes they are humourously referred to as 'evil'. In non-wrestling jargon, heels are often "bad guys" in professional wrestling storylines. They are of ("bad guy"). Perhaps the best gimmickIn professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestler's on-screen personality. The nature and plausibility of gimmicks vary widely. In recent years, the emphasis has been on more 'realistic' gimmicks where the wrestler is portrayed as be of this period was his on-and-off feud with an erstwhile tag-team partner, Aussie wrestler "Superstar" Bill Dundee. A celebrated "grudge match" between the two at Memphis' Mid-South Coliseum represented a rare example of theatrical makeup blood actually being found in use at a pro wrestling event, since the match was being taped for a NBC television program documenting the rise in popularity of pro wrestling. Most blood in professional wrestling has traditionally been real, the result of " blading".

Jerry Lawler is responsible for Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart entering professional wrestling. Lawler wanted to do a wrestling album with him singing and they had gone to school together so he called Hart and asked him to be a part of it.

Lawler unified AWA World Heavyweight title (defeating Curt Hennig on May 9, 1988) with the WCWA World Heavyweight Title (defeating Kerry Von Erich on December 13, 1988), creating the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Title, which Lawler would go on to hold a record 27 times total.

His son Brian, who has previously wrestled in WWE, is now performing in independent promotions.