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Post by Hot Noodle Truck on Sept 11, 2012 18:37:25 GMT -5
I was really dreading coming back here tonight and seeing the worst. So glad that things are looking up and I seriously hope he gets through without any long term damage to his health. Last night was scary and nerve wracking, but the support and positivity from all of you guys made it a lot easier to get through.
Keep fighting King!
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Post by FHgrad99 on Sept 11, 2012 18:44:17 GMT -5
I'm glad to be reading nothing but encouraging updates on Jerry Lawler. I hope his body accepts the stints and he can begin his road to recovery.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Sept 11, 2012 19:14:12 GMT -5
I don't know, the whole potential brain damage thing is honestly really bothersome.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 11, 2012 19:51:28 GMT -5
I don't know, the whole potential brain damage thing is honestly really bothersome. Fabrice Muamba's heart stopped beating for 40+ minutes and he has managed to avoid any brain damage. Granted, he's 38 years younger and a great deal fitter than Lawler, but he's a good example that oxygen depravation doesn't always result in brain damage.
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Post by Lardlad on Sept 11, 2012 19:55:43 GMT -5
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Post by Squirrel Master on Sept 11, 2012 20:03:20 GMT -5
My thoughts and prayers are with The King. I hope the long-term prognosis is good, because you can possibly live for years with stents. I actually lived this very same situation; the scenes went down while I was working in an office of a big bank. A coworker began whooping loudly so I immediately dialed 911, but he passed away.
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Sept 11, 2012 20:05:28 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan's son Nick Hogan is incredibly relieved that Jerry "The King" Lawler has stabilized since his heart attack Monday night -- but tells TMZ, it might be time Lawler considered retirement. Nick tells us, wrestling "takes a toll" on your body -- and as a result, "most guys retire around 50ish." Lawler is 62. According to Nick, people in the wrestling business have varied career lengths -- but when injuries come into play, it's hard to ignore the obvious ... it's time to slow down. Nick uses his own dad as an example -- saying even his 59-year-old father has cut back drastically on wrestling because of serious back injuries. Nick's parting words -- "Our prayers are with you, Jerry. Glad to hear you're alright." Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/09/11/nick-hogan-jerry-the-king-lawler-heart-attack/#ixzz26E0QXTLBwtf?
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Post by Legion on Sept 11, 2012 20:08:29 GMT -5
I don't know, the whole potential brain damage thing is honestly really bothersome. Fabrice Muamba's heart stopped beating for 40+ minutes and he has managed to avoid any brain damage. Granted, he's 38 years younger and a great deal fitter than Lawler, but he's a good example that oxygen depravation doesn't always result in brain damage. He was also placed into a medically induced coma and had his body temperature lowered to a near dangerous level in order to help with all that. So doctor know how to fight against things like this and I'm sure Lawler will have had the best treatment money can buy
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Post by Legion on Sept 11, 2012 20:10:11 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan's son Nick Hogan is incredibly relieved that Jerry "The King" Lawler has stabilized since his heart attack Monday night -- but tells TMZ, it might be time Lawler considered retirement. Nick tells us, wrestling "takes a toll" on your body -- and as a result, "most guys retire around 50ish." Lawler is 62. According to Nick, people in the wrestling business have varied career lengths -- but when injuries come into play, it's hard to ignore the obvious ... it's time to slow down. Nick uses his own dad as an example -- saying even his 59-year-old father has cut back drastically on wrestling because of serious back injuries. Nick's parting words -- "Our prayers are with you, Jerry. Glad to hear you're alright." Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/09/11/nick-hogan-jerry-the-king-lawler-heart-attack/#ixzz26E0QXTLBwtf? I dont understand the wtf. He's actually speaking a modicum of sense here...
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Post by Krimzon on Sept 11, 2012 20:23:05 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan's son Nick Hogan is incredibly relieved that Jerry "The King" Lawler has stabilized since his heart attack Monday night -- but tells TMZ, it might be time Lawler considered retirement. Nick tells us, wrestling "takes a toll" on your body -- and as a result, "most guys retire around 50ish." Lawler is 62. According to Nick, people in the wrestling business have varied career lengths -- but when injuries come into play, it's hard to ignore the obvious ... it's time to slow down. Nick uses his own dad as an example -- saying even his 59-year-old father has cut back drastically on wrestling because of serious back injuries. Nick's parting words -- "Our prayers are with you, Jerry. Glad to hear you're alright." Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/09/11/nick-hogan-jerry-the-king-lawler-heart-attack/#ixzz26E0QXTLBwtf? I dont understand the wtf. He's actually speaking a modicum of sense here... Hence the "wtf."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 20:25:01 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan's son Nick Hogan is incredibly relieved that Jerry "The King" Lawler has stabilized since his heart attack Monday night -- but tells TMZ, it might be time Lawler considered retirement. Nick tells us, wrestling "takes a toll" on your body -- and as a result, "most guys retire around 50ish." Lawler is 62. According to Nick, people in the wrestling business have varied career lengths -- but when injuries come into play, it's hard to ignore the obvious ... it's time to slow down. Nick uses his own dad as an example -- saying even his 59-year-old father has cut back drastically on wrestling because of serious back injuries. Nick's parting words -- "Our prayers are with you, Jerry. Glad to hear you're alright." Read more: www.tmz.com/2012/09/11/nick-hogan-jerry-the-king-lawler-heart-attack/#ixzz26E0QXTLBwtf? Other than TMZ interviewing Nick Hogan (of all people) about this, what exactly is so "wtf" worthy about what he said? It's common sense.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 20:27:44 GMT -5
Hope Lawler is OK after all of this. I saw the YouTube clip and it was hard to watch knowing what happened. I can't imagine what people thought watching it live. Props to Michael Cole for handling that so well.
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Post by metylerca on Sept 11, 2012 20:35:33 GMT -5
It breaks my heart that even after having a serious heart attack on live television that people would precede their post wishing him well to remind the rest of the board that they have a general distaste for his commentary. FAN, you're better than this.
That being said, I've grown up with Lawler on commentary. I loved when Bret would beat him up and the time he made him kiss his foot. When he turned face in 2000 against Taz, I was excited because I had grown up with him calling all of my favorite matches. As he got older, and he may have lost a step, I still have fun listening to him commentate PPVs and RAW. It sucks this happened to him and I wish him the best.
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Post by Michael Coello on Sept 11, 2012 20:50:07 GMT -5
I think what stands out is that his own dad who has wrestled this year, albeit not nearly as much as Lawler, just turned 59..... It's not like Nick is cheerleading Hulk getting into the ring. I bet he'd be happy if his dad stuck with stuff outside the ring for the rest of his life.
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Post by Lardlad on Sept 11, 2012 20:54:55 GMT -5
JR's Thoughts on Jerry Lawler and the Montreal Raw: www.jrsbarbq.com/blog/jrs-thoughts-jerry-lawler-and-montreal-rawThe whole blog here: {Spoiler}Tue, 09/11/2012 - 6:42pm — J.R. Posted in:
Wrestling
What an amazing and unreal 24 hours it has been with the major heart attack suffered by my long time partner and friend Jerry Lawler live during Monday Night Raw. It feels like a bad dream but unfortunately it isn't.
I was watching Monday Night Raw as usual when fans at the arena began Tweeting that something was wrong with the King at the announce table. The more that I read these shocking Tweets the more helpless that I felt because I wasn't there in Montreal to help my dear friend.
Michael Cole's updates had me trembling.
For Jerry Lawler to be sick is highly unusual. Being a 62 year old man, the King has been as fit as any one that I've known. He wrestles several times a month on the indy circuit and still plays in his Memphis softball league on Wednesday nights. Jerry is also 'young at heart' which isn't new news.
Plus, my long time partner and traveling companion has never smoked, drank alcohol or been a drug user. In a rough and tumble business, Jerry Lawler has essentially been an iron man since the 70's.
But even self acclaimed 'Iron Men' aren't bullet proof even though many of us think that we are.
Trust me, we aren't.
I'm not sure what caused Jerry's heart attack but it could have been genetic, Jerry's Dad died of a heart attack at a young age, or something that has been brewing for a good while. I don't know. In any event, suffering a massive heart attack is obviously life changing.
I know of what I speak on this matter as I lost both my parents at the age of 64 of heart attacks one year a part. Heart ailments are equal opportunity killers that care not who they attack.
Neither of my parents were in a position when their heart attacks occurred to get the immediate medical help that was available to Jerry in Montreal. My Mom died in mere minutes while we were in London for a PPV and my Dad held on for a few hours before he could fight no more. For the record, Dad passed on the night that LOD returned to Monday Night Raw. Funny how one remembers info like this.
Based on the information that I have, Jerry was extremely lucky to have been at a WWE event when his attack occurred. The immediate care that the trained professionals provided Jerry likely saved his life.
I shutter to think what the outcome would have been if Jerry had been wrestling on one of the indy shows that he was often booked. Heck, even driving to the arena or sitting in a restaurant might have proven fatal based on the hand that The King was dealt in Montreal Monday evening.
The last report that I received is that Jerry was in stable condition and getting excellent cardio care in a Montreal hospital. All of Jerry's vital signs are stable according to WWE.com. This is the information that we need to hear at this time and is positive. Tomorrow is another day and, God willing, will be an even better day for The King.
It might be a few days before all the needed medical information on Jerry's condition is processed but because he got immediate care from WWE doctors and EMTS, the King of Memphis chances of recovering seems good.
I tweeted today @jrsbbq that I have spent many hours since Monday night not only awake but thinking of all the hours that Jerry and I have spent together since the early 90's, the miles that we have traveled together, and the great times that we've shared.
I came to the conclusion that those times aren't memories but merely a prelude to the future where more memories will be made.
Jerry is a strong willed man who is amazingly active and competitive. I truly feel that he will battle through this recent challenge and come out healthier and even happier on the other side of his convalescence.
I say with all sincerity that I feel that Jerry and I have not taken our last road trip nor have we commentated our last match together. There's a Cracker Barrel in our future and another karaoke concert in the rental car where King sings with a British accent to a Beatles tune not to mention him bemoaning his beloved Cleveland sports teams, the Indians and the Browns.
Jerry Lawler was my most favorite broadcast partner of all time and his talent made me better. Compared to him, I was "brown shoes at a formal wedding."
But even better than our professional relationship and success, The King and I are true friends in a challenging profession where those are hard to come by.
Also, I want to say to all the talents who performed during Monday's ordeal that I am very, very proud of your professionalism.
There aren't adequate words to express the stellar job that Michael Cole did sitting at the broadcast desk that can be, from my own experience, extremely challenging to navigate on live TV during catastrophic moments such as Monday night.
For men like Bret Hart, CM Punk and John Cena to deliver as they did in the final segment of Monday Night Raw was nothing short of extraordinary. I am proud of each man and the entire WWE team for responding in the face of immense adversity that faced them in Montreal.
Get well soon Jerry.
JR
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Sept 11, 2012 20:56:06 GMT -5
I admit that I almost cried when I read this. Very good article by JR.
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 11, 2012 20:58:37 GMT -5
You know, reading JR's blog entry, it occurs to me that King has had a really up and down year and a half. His mother dies, he wrestles for both the WWE Championship and in his first Wrestlemania, and then this occurs. Dang.
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Post by Krimzon on Sept 11, 2012 21:36:00 GMT -5
JR isn't alone in regards to Cole's updates. EVERYBODY s*** bricks during that first one. We all thought it was going to be "that" update.
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Post by extremecanhorseman on Sept 11, 2012 21:56:00 GMT -5
My mom had a massive heart attack back in November and it truly was the scariest thing that I have ever seen in person. She had actually flat-lined eight times en-route to the hospital and the doctors had told us that they weren't sure if she would ever recover or even make it through surgery. She also went through all of the procedures that Jerry went through, which included the stints being placed in her heart. Ten months later, my mom is doing amazingly well after a triple-bypass operation in March and she is able to get around without assistance. The doctors even gave her the clearance to go back to work if that's the option that she wants. If my mom can make it through this entire ordeal, then I have a real good feeling that Jerry Lawler will make it through. I keep smiling at every update that I read on Facebook as well as on here, so please keep 'em coming!
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Post by ICBM on Sept 11, 2012 22:12:05 GMT -5
Get better brother
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