Dinner With the King Recap – Recalling Hell in A Cell 1998, Working Texas Death Matches, Performers Holding Titles Hostage, More!

Lawler speaks about the famous Concession Stand Brawl match from Tupelo, Mississippi back in 1979. This was a true hardcore match which was a rarity in those days, so it was something nobody had ever seen before. It has gone down in Memphis Wrestling lore, and is held in similarly high regard to the Empty Arena Match between Lawler and Terry Funk.
Lawler points out that the promoters in Tupelo were an old Southern couple and the wife definitely wore the pants in the relationship. She was furious when she heard and saw what was happening in the concessions because she thought it was a legitimate fight at first. Lawler says the husband was okay with it, as long as they didn’t break his prized popcorn machine.

Lawler informs that he’s been involved in a number of unique matches throughout the course of his career. He was a part of Scaffold matches but he was never a fan of those. He recalls Jim Cornette falling from a scaffold during one match which resulted in him breaking multiple bones.
He also worked some barbed wire matches and he didn’t really have a problem with those, he’d just make sure that someone else was being cut with the barbed wire instead of him. He notes that they didn’t gimmick the barbed wire back then; it was legitimate barbed wire.