Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler opens today’s show speaking about WWE’s plans to host shows on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. He says he’s sure they’ll put off some great shows but he feels bad for the guys and girls who have to work on Christmas Day.

Lawler talks about the origins of the term ‘dirt sheet’. He informs that the term ‘dirt sheet’ originated from the fact that the initial news was written on old dirty sheets of paper. He was never a fan of the dirt sheet writers because they profited from exposing people’s private lives.

He adds that nobody in the wrestling business liked Dave Meltzer back in the day. As the years have passed the writers have become more accepted and there are hundreds of people doing it now so there’s no point in singling out Meltzer and hating him.

Lawler says he had a lot of fun working on XFL broadcasts back in the day. He still thinks that the XFL could have worked if Vince McMahon was allowed to run it on his own, without the interference of Dick Ebersol and NBC executives. The XFL needed to be different than the NFL, and McMahon tried to accomplish this by combining the worlds of football and sports entertainment.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Moore informs that Jim Cornette will be the guest on next week’s show, and Lawler points out that Cornette appears to be the talk of the wrestling business again after getting into a verbal altercation with former WWE Superstar Santino last weekend.

Moore adds that Cornette apparently revealed himself to the studio audience at Bruce Prichard’s live show and Lawler has a hard time believing that. He says that until Cornette comes out and admits to doing that he’s going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Lawler jokes that Cornette has two languages: english and profanity.

Moore is upset at the fact that Lawler is not a playable character in the WWE 2K18 video game. Moore points out that Lawler has the most Championship wins in wrestling history and he should be in this game. Lawler says he hasn’t be contacted about having a character in the game and he thinks that could be due to the fact that WWE thinks of him solely as a colour commentator now.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler opens today’s show speaking about the passing of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Lawler was devastated to hear the news of Heenan’s passing over the weekend, and he says there’ll never be anyone like Heenan ever again. He considers the pairing of Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon to be the greatest commentary team of all time.

He mentions that Heenan was the one who personally introduced him to the WWE Universe, and he knew he was in for a good run when Heenan was chosen as the choice to introduce him. Lawler says it’s terrible that Heenan had so many health issues over the last decade, and it was particularly cruel that he was stricken with throat cancer given that he spent so many years entertaining people with his voice.

Moore points out that WWE announced they’ll be promoting a show under the Starrcade banner soon, and Lawler says he actually doesn’t remember anything about Starrcade. He never saw any of those shows from back in the day because he and all the other WWE employees were so involved in their own thing during the Monday Night Wars that they didn’t have time to watch what WCW was doing.

Moore asks Lawler if McMahon is hesitant to use former WCW PPV names, since we haven’t really seen much of it at all since WWE bought WCW back in 2002. Lawler doesn’t think McMahon is hesitant to use those names at all, and when the time is right, he has proven that he doesn’t mind bringing back old WCW PPVs.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler admits that he was somewhat legitimately upset with Peter Rosenberg for wearing an old Bobby Heenan jacket on the SummerSlam Kickoff show. He cracked a few jokes and everyone laughed but Lawler says he was somewhat legitimately angered because Heenan is one of the greatest commentators of all time, and he felt as if Rosenberg was comparing himself to Heenan by wearing that jacket. He hopes and assumes that Rosenberg wore the jacket as more of a tribute to Heenan.

Lawler thought SummerSlam provided a lot of great matches particularly the Kickoff show tag team match between The Usos and The New Day. He also mentions that the building was even more empty than it appeared on television for the 6-man tag which was the first match of the evening. He thought that was unfortunate, but that’s one of the difficult thing about Barclay’s Centre; it’s tough to funnel people into the building.

Lawler says he can’t fault fans for bringing beach balls and having a good time during the broadcast because for the last several months WWE has been promoting SummerSlam as the ‘biggest party of the Summer’. It actually wouldn’t surprise him if WWE brought those balls and set it up.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler informs that he injured his knee recently and it might require some attention in the near future. He recently visited a doctor with his son and the doctor told him that his son’s knees are three times worse than his, and his son is looking at a double knee replacement surgery. Lawler considers himself lucky to have been wrestling for 46 years and he has never required a knee surgery.

Lawler worked a cage match recently and had ‘The Mouth of the South’ Jimmy Hart in his corner for the match. He says that the cage was actually a very stable structure which surprised him, because he has worked in some pretty sad looking cages during his career. He informs that Hart threw his megaphone into cage at one point during the match and that reminded him of a cage match he worked against ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage many years ago.

Savage had Miss Elizabeth accompany him to the ring, and at one point she jumped into the cage. When she tried to climb back out of the cage, Lawler grabbed her skirt and the whole skirt came right off. The Memphis crowd got quite a show that evening. Lawler says that Elizabeth was a tremendous talent both as a valet and as an in-ring worker.

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