How Jerry Lawler Crowned the World: Wrestling’s Last Universal Joke and the Geopolitics of Kayfabe
The Global Court Jester: How Jerry “The King” Lawler Became Wrestling’s Last Universal Punchline By Dave’s Foreign Desk Cairo, 3:14 a.m. local time—while the Nile glugs past like a bored bartender, a taxi driver in a faded Undertaker T-shirt is replaying on his cracked phone the 1982 bout in which Jerry Lawler pile-drove comedian Andy…