04.07.2005, 14:05
Vor einigen Wochen postete ich hier die Steve Austin King of the Ring 1996 Ansprache, die sicherlich jedem der das damals sah im Gedaechtniss geblieben ist. Hier eine weitere Denkwuerdige Ausseinandersetzung am Mic zwischen Jerry Lawler und Paul Heyman bei Raw 1997 zwei Wochen vor WM 13:
-Jerry Lawler: "The question is not whether ECW SHOULD exist. My question is whether ECW DOES exist. Because you see Paul E., you are being seen right now by more people at this very minute than you have ever been seen by in your entire life. Because your little rinky-dink ECW promotion is a bunch of misfits, a bunch of thugs, and a bunch of has-beens that couldn't catch on with any legitimate wrestling organization. (To the ECW wrestlers approaching the ring) Yeah, listen up guys. I'm talking about you. You understand that? So what you idiots did, you all migrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and you all got your little pea brains together, and you said 'We can't wrestle, so maybe if we beat ourselves into oblivion with frying pans over our heads, or maybe beat each other up with barbed wire covered baseball bats, maybe there's enough morons and brain-damaged idiots in the city of Philadelphia to come and see us!' And you know what Paul E? You go down to a bingo hall once a month in Philadelphia, and you put on your little charades, and you beat each other into oblivion. And there's blood running everywhere, and you draw... well, about eleven hundred people come to see you do this stuff. Eleven hundred IDIOTS. But you know what..."
-Jim Ross: "Your time is up."
-Jerry Lawler: "My time is NOT up! I'm gonna let him talk. When the World Wrestling Federation goes to Philadelphia, they put twenty-two THOUSAND people into the CoreStates Center. Now my question for YOU, McMahon (turns to Vince at ringside), is..."
-Paul Heyman: "SHUT UP! SHUT... the HELL... UP! The fact that the WWF puts 22,000 people in the seats is not a testament to anything that you've ever accomplished in your whole stinkin' life! The fact - THE FACT that we earn the respect of every single one of those eleven hundred people, by bleeding, by sweating, by fighting, by taking each other down and showing these people that we will BUST OUR ASS! (Pounds fist on the podium) BUST OUR ASS to give them their money's worth - that's what ECW is all about."
-Jerry Lawler: "Hey, you're proud of drawing eleven hundred people in Philadelphia?"
-Paul Heyman: "BECAUSE WE EARNED IT!"
-Jerry Lawler: "There's FOUR MILLION people in Philly! There's eleven hundred morons that'd come to watch paint dry!"
-Paul Heyman: "You wanna shoot with me? You wanna shoot with me?"
-Jerry Lawler: "Yeah, I'm shootin' with you! That's right."
-Paul Heyman: "Hey - How ya doin' at the see-saws in Louisville, Jerry? Your OWN SONS don't even call themselves Lawlers. Why? Why? Because they're ashamed of your ass! (Yikes) We earned everything we got! We give these people their money's worth!"
-Jerry Lawler: "You never earned anything in your life. You're a 35-year-old man..."
-Paul Heyman: "How old are you?"
-Jerry Lawler: "You're a 35-year-old man who still lives with his mother and father! If it wasn't for your mom and dad - who financed this bunch of crap - you wouldn't be anything. You understand that? You wanna shoot with somebody? Why do you hang around with these guys? You're not an athlete."
-Paul Heyman: "I hang around with them because they give these people their money's worth. Because they wanna go on pay-per-view and be extreme. We are the Howard Stern of professional wrestling. We're hardcore, and damn proud of it!"
-Jerry Lawler: "You know why you hang around with them Paul E? Because you're a little light in the loafers. Why don't you go ahead and admit it right now!"
-Jerry Lawler: "The question is not whether ECW SHOULD exist. My question is whether ECW DOES exist. Because you see Paul E., you are being seen right now by more people at this very minute than you have ever been seen by in your entire life. Because your little rinky-dink ECW promotion is a bunch of misfits, a bunch of thugs, and a bunch of has-beens that couldn't catch on with any legitimate wrestling organization. (To the ECW wrestlers approaching the ring) Yeah, listen up guys. I'm talking about you. You understand that? So what you idiots did, you all migrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and you all got your little pea brains together, and you said 'We can't wrestle, so maybe if we beat ourselves into oblivion with frying pans over our heads, or maybe beat each other up with barbed wire covered baseball bats, maybe there's enough morons and brain-damaged idiots in the city of Philadelphia to come and see us!' And you know what Paul E? You go down to a bingo hall once a month in Philadelphia, and you put on your little charades, and you beat each other into oblivion. And there's blood running everywhere, and you draw... well, about eleven hundred people come to see you do this stuff. Eleven hundred IDIOTS. But you know what..."
-Jim Ross: "Your time is up."
-Jerry Lawler: "My time is NOT up! I'm gonna let him talk. When the World Wrestling Federation goes to Philadelphia, they put twenty-two THOUSAND people into the CoreStates Center. Now my question for YOU, McMahon (turns to Vince at ringside), is..."
-Paul Heyman: "SHUT UP! SHUT... the HELL... UP! The fact that the WWF puts 22,000 people in the seats is not a testament to anything that you've ever accomplished in your whole stinkin' life! The fact - THE FACT that we earn the respect of every single one of those eleven hundred people, by bleeding, by sweating, by fighting, by taking each other down and showing these people that we will BUST OUR ASS! (Pounds fist on the podium) BUST OUR ASS to give them their money's worth - that's what ECW is all about."
-Jerry Lawler: "Hey, you're proud of drawing eleven hundred people in Philadelphia?"
-Paul Heyman: "BECAUSE WE EARNED IT!"
-Jerry Lawler: "There's FOUR MILLION people in Philly! There's eleven hundred morons that'd come to watch paint dry!"
-Paul Heyman: "You wanna shoot with me? You wanna shoot with me?"
-Jerry Lawler: "Yeah, I'm shootin' with you! That's right."
-Paul Heyman: "Hey - How ya doin' at the see-saws in Louisville, Jerry? Your OWN SONS don't even call themselves Lawlers. Why? Why? Because they're ashamed of your ass! (Yikes) We earned everything we got! We give these people their money's worth!"
-Jerry Lawler: "You never earned anything in your life. You're a 35-year-old man..."
-Paul Heyman: "How old are you?"
-Jerry Lawler: "You're a 35-year-old man who still lives with his mother and father! If it wasn't for your mom and dad - who financed this bunch of crap - you wouldn't be anything. You understand that? You wanna shoot with somebody? Why do you hang around with these guys? You're not an athlete."
-Paul Heyman: "I hang around with them because they give these people their money's worth. Because they wanna go on pay-per-view and be extreme. We are the Howard Stern of professional wrestling. We're hardcore, and damn proud of it!"
-Jerry Lawler: "You know why you hang around with them Paul E? Because you're a little light in the loafers. Why don't you go ahead and admit it right now!"