Jerry Lawler Says Working SmackDown Is More Fun RAW, Talks "Piledriver Match" With Kevin Owens
Scott Fishman of The Miami Herald has an interview with WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler, who was promoting his new DVD and appearing at the Florida Supercon in Miami later this month. Below are some highlights:
Wrestling Kevin Owens in a "Piledriver match" last year (which you can watch above):
"I mentioned this at Elimination Chamber when Kevin Owens was going against John Cena. He was basically doing his first match with WWE that night, although he was in the business 15 years. I mentioned I had been in the ring and wrestled Kevin Owens. I had a 20-minute long piledriver match with Kevin Owens.
"The next day he started with NXT. All of a sudden Twitter blew up saying, 'What? You wrestled Kevin Owens!' My match career has been pretty impressive, as far as the names I've been able to compete and be in the ring these years."
Moving from RAW to SmackDown:
"It kind of rejuvenated me. It's fun to work with guys that you can tell are a little intimidated by you. You don't want to play that trump card very often, but you know it's always there. Byron is very talented. So is Tom Phillips, and they are a lot of fun to work with. SmackDown to me, and I'm not casting anything against Raw, but maybe it's a little more fun. Maybe it's because there is a little less pressure in the fact we tape the show and it's an hour shorter than Raw.
"I mean Raw is like a runaway train sometimes, which is fun to watch. It's not always fun to be a part of the broadcast because it's high-pressure show, producing a three-hour live show every week. SmackDown has been a lot of fun. More moves are in the future. They are moving to USA Network next year. That is going to be huge with Raw and SmackDown on the same network."
Lawler also talked about his new DVD, wrestling John Cena in OVW, wrestling following his cancer scare, getting his commentating gig with WWE and more. You can check out the full interview by clicking here.
Source: The Miami Herald