🎭 July 28, 1982 The Slap That Shook America Live on Late Night with David Letterman, Memphis royalty Jerry “The King” Lawler slapped eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman on national TV and the world was never the same. What folks didn’t know? It was all a masterclass in performance. Months earlier, Kaufman, fresh off Taxi, took his Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion act to the South where Lawler and the Mid-South team welcomed chaos. Kaufman taunted Memphis, Lawler pile-drove him into fame, and the duo
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🎭 July 28, 1982 The Slap That Shook America Live on Late Night with David Letterman, Memphis royalty Jerry “The King” Lawler slapped eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman on national TV and the world was never the same. What folks didn’t know? It was all a masterclass in performance. Months earlier, Kaufman, fresh off Taxi, took his Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion act to the South where Lawler and the Mid-South team welcomed chaos. Kaufman taunted Memphis, Lawler pile-drove him into fame, and the duo
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In 1982, Andy Kaufman brought his professional wrestling villain act to 'The David Letterman Show.' The incident, when Jerry Lawler slapped Kaufman, was a wrestling industry secret for over two decades. | VICE
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In 1982, Andy Kaufman brought his professional wrestling villain act to 'The David Letterman Show.' The incident, when Jerry Lawler slapped Kaufman, was a wrestling industry secret for over two decades. | VICE
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Andy Kaufman was born on this day in 1949. Kaufman famously engaged in a feud with Jerry "The King" Lawler in the 1980s. The feud earned them a spot on the David Letterman show where Lawler slapped Andy in the face after having water thrown at him. Kaufman partnered with Jimmy Hart in the feud as he and Lawler wrestled multiple times. He died in 1984 at the age of 35 as the result of Cancer. #Memphis #prowrestling #wrestling #wrestler #andykaufman #manonthemoon #MemphisWrestling #WWE #WWEHistory
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MemphisForgotten on Instagram: "Andy Kaufman, the eccentric star of Taxi, brought one of the most bizarre and legendary storylines in wrestling history to Memphis in the early 1980s. Blurring fiction and reality, he crowned himself “Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World” wrestling women across the country before stepping into the lion’s den: Memphis Wrestling. On April 5, 1982, Kaufman faced King Jerry Lawler at the Mid-South Coliseum in a match that ended with two piledrivers and months
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