One time Moolah brought a couple of young female performers into the territory and Lawler played his trick on one of them. The girl went crying into the office and Moolah demanded that whoever did that be fired. Lawler was let go shortly thereafter, but only for a week. Once that girl left the territory Lawler was rehired.
He points out that Young and Moolah gave him lots of material to work with on commentary during the attitude era, and they were both always so easy to deal with.
Another listener writes into the show and asks Lawler if there is any truth to the rumours that Jerry Jarrett was brought into WWE during Vince McMahon’s trial as a precaution, so he’d be able to takeover control of WWE while McMahon was away if he were to be indicted. Lawler has heard that Jerry Jarrett was indeed brought in by WWE to run the promotion in the event that Vince McMahon was indicted during the steroid trial in the 1990s.
Jarrett was a known commodity who had proven that he knew how to keep a wrestling promotion alive, and McMahon needed a back up plan in the event that he had to do some jail time. Lawler admits that all of WWE’s big creative decisions probably still would have went through McMahon, even if he was in jail.
