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With WWE’s Monday Night RAW having Guest Hosts every week, Andy was the first of his kind to bring entertainment into the squared circle. With Vince McMahon coining the phase "sports entertainment," Kaufman was indeed doing that long before World Wrestling Entertainment came to such global prominence. "Andy used to speak to Vince in the early days & tried to convince to get more involved in this (his feud with Lawler). I guess Vince was protective of what he was trying to build at the time, so it never really came together."
Andy’s feud with "The King" went down as one the most-entertaining & media attention-getting feuds arguably of all-time, between the matches they had all the way to their appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman." Bob explained how it all started. "Lawler had his promoter call Andy’s manager (George Shapiro), and asked him how Andy would feel wrestling a man: Jerry "The King" Lawler in Memphis. George of course said no, but he asked Andy, and when Andy heard that, forget the Academy Award, this was it…This is his dream. George called back, and he said Andy wants to do it. This is where it gets insane." He went onto say how Andy would begin insulting the Southern p eople of Memphis & began to rile out the crowds down there, and the rest of the country took notice.
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