Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 Following on from the Jerry Lawler topic, he's the perfect baseline for a "six degrees of separation" game in wrestling. A man who's fought everyone from Lou Thesz to Joey Ryan, Harley Race to Kevin Owens, Tatsumi Fujinami to Michael Cole, Bret Hart to Daniel Bryan, Billy Graham to James Ellsworth. So, being in a match with Jerry Lawler earns you a Lawler Number of 1. Being in a match with someone who has been in a match with Lawler is a Lawler Number of 2, and so on. What are some fun, and potentially unexpected, links? Joey Ryan means that Session Moth Martina has a Lawler Number of 2, for example. If we count refereeing matches, I have a Lawler number of 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 Lawler fought Bret Hart at summerSlam '93. Bret fought DDP at World War 3 in 1998. DDP fought David Arquette in the Triple Cage. Arquette was in Scream with Neve Campbell who was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 Super sensation referee Chris Roberts is a solid 1. I love that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted January 14, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 14, 2019 YOSHIHIKO the blow-up doll has a Lawler number of 3. YOSHIHIKO-Kota Ibushi-Cody Rhodes-Jerry Lawler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I was thinking about Big Daddy and various UK stars but of course Jim "Kamala" Harris wrestled both Lawler and Daddy so he'd be the key link there. Brian Christopher wrestled Ulf Hermann at FWA Revival so he'd be a link between the newer British stars and Lawler. Lawler did (I think) one tour each with both AJPW and NJPW in the 80s so that's most of Japan taken care of. Mexico might be a bit harder to do shorter links, Lawler wrestled Hector Guerrero in the 70s, but he wasn't really a star in Lucha Libre. He also wrestled Mil Mascaras in Memphis but there's some conjecture that it might have been a fake Mascaras. I'd be surprised if there's any wrestler in the world with more than 3 years of working under their belt with a "Lawler number" greater than 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 2 hours ago, Silky Kisser said: Super sensation referee Chris Roberts is a solid 1. I love that. That puts me at 2 on the Lawler scale, then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 1 minute ago, PunkStep said:  That puts me at 2 on the Lawler scale, then Same goes for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 14, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 Yeah, Lucha is his missing link - he doesn't seem to have ever worked Mexico. But, again, via Mil Mascaras you can reach most of the big name "classic" luchadores. And while the Mascaras that did a stretcher job in Memphis might have not been the real deal, he and Lawler wrestled to a draw in Dallas, and both entered the 1997 Royal Rumble, so we've still got him there, with the '97 Rumble also connecting him to other AAA names. The Joey Ryan match also keeps Lawler only a step removed from Lucha Underground, so that will connect him to a lot of the present day lucha scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 10 minutes ago, PunkStep said: That puts me at 2 on the Lawler scale, then  9 minutes ago, Carbomb said: Same goes for me! Fuck Jerry, you're both incredibly lucky to have shared a ring with Roberts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 best ref in the business for my money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 5 minutes ago, Silky Kisser said: Fuck Jerry, you're both incredibly lucky to have shared a ring with Roberts. I worked with him a fair bit during my sojourn in BritWres - as a heel manager in IPW:UK (I'm almost certain he was the ref for my personal highlight in management, when Vampiro hit me with the Nail In The Coffin), as a ring announcer in SAS, and as a jobber in a tinpot promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Even Alexander Karelin (legendary Russian amateur wrestler who had exactly one pro-wrestling match) only has a Lawler number of 3. Karelin wrestled Akira Maeda, Maeda wrested Dutch Mantell (in the original Japanese UWF), Mantell wrestled Lawler hundreds of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I'm also a two via Daniel Bryan, thanks to Brian Dixon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 14, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 14, 2019 22 minutes ago, Pier Six Brawler said: Even Alexander Karelin (legendary Russian amateur wrestler who had exactly one pro-wrestling match) only has a Lawler number of 3. Karelin wrestled Akira Maeda, Maeda wrested Dutch Mantell (in the original Japanese UWF), Mantell wrestled Lawler hundreds of times. If we're counting actual competitive wrestlers, does anyone know what Roland Bock's number is? Googled him, but only his German page comes up, and ich kenne keine Deutsche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 31 minutes ago, Carbomb said: If we're counting actual competitive wrestlers, does anyone know what Roland Bock's number is? Googled him, but only his German page comes up, and ich kenne keine Deutsche. I think there's mention in Lawler's book of a Lawler vs Inoki match in NJPW. Roland Bock wrestled Inoki. If I'm wrong about the Lawler vs Inoki match, they both wrestled Ric Flair. So either 2 or 3 for Bock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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