One of the most awesome angles I ever saw in my life! Kaufman should be in the hall of fame for what he did. Hands down one of the greatest feuds of all time. I was stationed in the Memphis area during that time and this is all anyone ever talked about. Kaufman drew nuclear level heat. Great times!
My buddy Lenny from New Jersey turned me onto this video. Thanks, brother! We were golf caddies together at Preakness Hills Country Club in Wayne, New Jersey in the 1980's
Not comparable to other feuds exactly but this is the funniest in history. Lawler extreme creativity also. Pure non stop drama but hilarious. Hard to beat.
I actually used some of Andy's tactics at a wrestling show I used to do back in the day. It worked so well. Most fun I ever had. If I could do it again I would.
he used to wrestle women out of the audience, like they didn't set up anything so he really had to pin these women. I think its hilarious. After the Lawler feud they kept using andy kaufman in all kinds of angles, with jimmy hart and stuff. I wish we had memphis wrestling on tv growing up, i only found out about it later. I would've loved it.
Jerry did an incredible job selling the feud on Letterman. I knew that they had to have practiced that piledriver move, but I had no idea that Jerry taped the wrestler promo stuff. 😄
One of the bios, either Zehme or Zmuda, says those Southerners were calling him a Yankee Jew and wanted him dead. 🫣 He wanted "real" reactions... that's "really" the South lol.
I knew nothing of Andy Kaufman and only learned of him through this angle/work with Lawler. Pretty good stuff for competing against Vince McMahon/ WWF.
WWF dropped the ball by not letting Andy Kaufman wrestle at MSG back in 83' because two years later after Vince jr. took over his father's promotion, Vince jr. realize his father made a huge mistake & he went after celebrates like Cyndi Lauper, Mr. T, Billy Martin, Muhammad Ali & Liberace to create the very 1st WrestleMania. If it wasn't for the main event & all those celebrities then the show might have been a bust cause if it wasn't for the main event match, you could have seen any of those matches on Saturday morning
The Lawler/Kaufman storyline was the absolute BEST EVER. This feud was to wrestling what Dave Chappell's fake Frontline story about "Clayton Bigsby" was to comedy. Nothing will surpass it.
