On the latest episode of his Dinner With The King podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler discussed last week’s big RAW 25th Anniversary special, Royal Rumble memories and much more. Here are some highlights of what Lawler said about:
The photo showing him and Jim Ross “Sleeping” during RAW 25:
“Our monitors were small and they were down at the lower part of the desk. This picture was taken during a commercial break. The headsets were a little different. I don’t know what the deal was with the chairs, but they were not comfortable, they were not the chairs that were ordinarily used. So during the show, while we were doing the commentary, in order to see the monitor right, I would have to sit up straight and almost lean forward to be able to watch the monitor.
So then, when a commercial break came, I would take that opportunity to kind of sit back and really, just sort of stretch my back. JR was texting. I don’t know how he does it. JR multitasks. He’ll be texting while he’s doing the broadcast, so that’s what he was doing. Throughout the entire show, he did a lot of texting or maybe tweeting. I did a little bit myself.
But anyway, somebody catches that one particular shot and then they put it out on the internet and man, it was all over the place… I know JR was really sensitive to it. It upset JR because that just wasn’t the case. I mean, good gosh, nobody went to sleep during the broadcast of the 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw.”
Lawler added that there was actually a lot of pressure for him and Jim Ross to perform ‘like old times’ and he felt a lot of pressure before and during the show. He felt it was very difficult to put on a good performance with minimal preparation time.
Overall, he thinks they did well but could have done a lot better if they had more time to practice and get back in their old groove.
Triple H Making Changes To The Manhattan Center Show On The Fly Due To The Upset Crowd:Â
“I think at first, some fans realized ‘We’re not going to get to see in person a lot of these people that had been advertised,’ when someone is at the Barclays Center and they started showing all these different guys. They started to complain and feel uncomfortable and everything.
I’m not sure, but I think Triple H is the guy who made a call over there and said ‘Hey, we’ve got to give these people more over here.’ So what they started doing, they started sending some of the superstars that were primarily, originally just booked to be at the Barclays Center, they started sending them, putting them in a car service or limos and sending them over to the Manhattan Center. So by the end of the night, the people at the Manhattan Center got to see a ton of the superstars.”
You can listen to the full podcast episode below. H/T to PWPodcasts.com for the transcribed quotes.
