Jerry “The King” Lawler is Working on Bringing the Memphis Wrestling Library to the WWE Network

In a new interview with BleacherReport.com, Jerry “The King” Lawler claims that he is working on bringing the entire Memphis Wrestling library to the WWE. Once in the hands of WWE, the massive amount of Memphis territory content will be added to the ever-expanding WWE Network.

Lawler spent many years in the Memphis territory, winning multiple singles and tag team championships. He played both heel and face during his time there, and collided with Andy Kaufman in quite possibly his famous feud to date.

When asked about the King’s time in Memphis, the BleacherReport writers asked Lawler how he thinks the current WWE Universe, who may have only ever seen him behind a commentator’s table, would react to seeing him compete in 1981? Lawler says,

Hopefully they’d be impressed. And you’re right. I wouldn’t say it bothers me, but I do think about it from time to time. I do realize that there are tons of our WWE fans who only know me as a commentator. Especially the young ones. I’m really excited sometimes that I’m still relevant, even though the majority of my wrestling career they’ve never even heard about.

The good news is I’m amassing the tape library and I’m talking right now with the people in WWE about making the entire Memphis library available to the WWE so they could use it on the Network.

Of course the ’90s was good, but the great stuff as far as I’m concerned was from when I started in the early ’70s up until the mid-1980s. Even before we started the USWA. We had just plain Memphis Wrestling. Then we were affiliated with the NWA. And then, for the longest time, we were affiliated with the AWA, and I eventually became the AWA champion. And that was all before USWA.

Editor’s Note:
I love watching wrestling, especially old territory content. I’d love to watch some of the old Memphis angles on the WWE Network.