Posted By Caroline Walsh on 02/09/18


On a recent episode of his podcast (via wrestlinginc.com), Jerry Lawler spoke about why he loved the women’s Royal Rumble match, and his thoughts on WWE bringing in Ronda Rousey…

On The Women’s Royal Rumble: “The Women’s Royal Rumble epitomized what I love about Royal Rumbles. I love seeing people from the past and surprise entrances showing up at Royal Rumbles. The Women’s Royal Rumble was historic and the first time ever. There was so much pressure, not just women who performed but the people who put that Royal Rumble together. You only get one chance to make a good first impression and that was what they had and I thought they came through with flying colors,” Lawler said. “All the ladies that they brought back looked and performed great. The match itself was just so good. It really was. I was excited about it. I was surprised that they put that on last but after seeing the surprise at the end of the Royal Rumble then I wasn’t so surprised; it all made sense. The entire Women’s Royal Rumble was great.”

On Ronda Rousey: “She’s somebody that is known almost to everybody. John Cena is a movie star, commercials, good grief, everything that John Cena has done is known like Ronda Rousey; at least, outside the WWE world,” Lawler said. “I read what Dana White wrote about her; he said that he is so happy for her because he knew that her entire time during her UFC career she was always a Pro Wrestling fan; always loved the WWE. Even he feels she is where she belongs.”

On His Interaction With Paige at The Rumble: “The first time walking to the hallway in the back walking to catering, here comes two young ladies walking towards me, and it’s Paige and Kelly Kelly; and I hadn’t seen Paige in a long time and she gives me a hug and everything; then she proceeds to tell Kelly Kelly about the picture that went out all over the internet of someone taking a picture at ringside, which it just depends on that second,” Lawler said. “The whole time you are at ringside and you are looking around at no telling what, if they catch that exact second it appears that I am looking at Paige’s backside and I don’t really remember that as being the case but the picture looked like that. It sailed around the internet everywhere and she and I had a good laugh about it. We recreated the picture back in the locker room with her looking at my backside, so that’s the kind of stuff that can happen with pictures like that. Let me reassure everybody, and I swear on my mother’s grave, Jim Ross and I were never asleep at anytime during the 25th anniversary of Raw. That never happened.”