Jerry Lawler - Criminal Action (including court result)

Crockerinho

Wrestling Moderator

Criminal charges were officially brought against RAW color commentator Jerry “The King� Lawler early this morning. Apparently last Friday at a Sam’s Town Memphis Pro Wrestling show Lawler punched “The Big Cheese� Sal Corrente more than once and then yelled, “You stupid mother f**ker, don't you ever hit a fan.�

Lawler had believed that Sal had punched a fan. Eyewitnesses reported that this did not actually happen; that Lawler was wrong.

A court date has been set for August 1, 2007, but only if papers are served to Lawler before that date. It is expected that Mississippi authorities will serve these papers at the July 20th show when Lawler is scheduled to wrestle next.

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natureBALLS

Cool to see the old pervert sticking up for the fans. even though it didn't happen lol

D.G.F
O, would ere' I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey heid had lien in clay
Wi' Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour
I'll mak this declaration :-
'We're bought and sold for English gold'--
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Tyler Durden

From f4wonline.com -


Jerry Lawler, not surprisingly, was victorious in his court case with Sal Corrente.

The story is that Corrente, who was working as a manager at a show at the Sam's Town Casino in Mississippi, got into it verbally with a fan and Lawler, backstage, freaked out.

No one knows for sure what happened, but Lawler seemed to think Corrente hit the fan, so he ran out there to diffuse the situation with an unplanned pull-apart brawl. At some point, he punched Corrente right in the face.

Corrente claimed that Lawler was screaming at him about how you never touch a fan and that this was clearly an assault. He was scheduled to come out again later in the show, but instead he quit.

Later, footage showed that Corrente didn't appear to have touched the fan.

Corrente claimed Lawler had punched him repeatedly. Lawler claimed he punched the guy once, on accident. The judge ended up citing reasonable doubt, basically saying that in the course of a fake pro-wrestling encounter it was impossible to say whether it was a purposeful hard punch or an accidental hard punch, and therefore he was throwing the entire thing out.

Corrente was outraged and has since stated that he plans on filing an appeal and wants witnesses in court this time.

The great irony is that a few days before the trial, footage aired on WWE 24/7 of a round-table discussion where Lawler admitted to breaking Paul Heyman's jaw with a punch in the 80s, and how he'd waited two days to do it so as to make it look like an accident.