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After insulting the good people of Memphis, Lawler did not take kindly to Kaufman, simply because he thought Kaufman was not taking it seriously & disrespecting the sport. "George calls the promoter & tells him ‘We’re not doing this…This is not what we thought.’ The promoter said that they were sold-out, and if Andy Kaufman doesn’t do this match, he has to write a check for $40,000. It was decided that if Andy could stay in the ring with Lawler for two minutes, that would be it. The night comes, and the only way we get from the dressing room to the ring was with a Memphis SWAT team of ten guys in full SWAT gear to take us down the aisle. It was the scariest situation I have ever been (a part of) in my life."
Bob told the story of the match between the two combatants & how Andy was hurt after two piledrivers from Lawler, who double-crossed Kaufman & performed the moves on Andy. He has seen Jerry since the incident & Andy Kaufman’s death and actually talked to him about the incident. "I know the move, I did push it, and I knew Andy wasn’t going to get seriously hurt. But Andy kinda straightened his head at the end, which he shouldn’t have done, and he felt bad about it. But it was the greed of Jerry Lawler, I don’t think anyone would know who hell Jerry Lawler was if it wasn’t for that incident. Then we did ‘Man On The Moon,’ and we had to change it around, because he wanted to look like the good guy…so don’t believe any of the crap in that."
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