JERRY LYNN ON RECOVERY FROM NECK SURGERY, MORE
- 11/06/2015 (1:06:10 am)
- Bob Mulrenin
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Perhaps the most respected and revered worker of the last twenty five years joins today's Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling as John and Chad welcome the great Jerry Lynn to the show. Jerry Lynn, not known for his skills behind the microphone provides the listeners with a very dynamic view of his career, how he was booked as "just a wrestler" and his trials and tribulations as he battled injuries and continually put on great matches every night he wrestled. From his early days in GWF to his run in ECW as the ECW Champion, Jerry takes us on a journey into the life and times of the New F'n Show.Full
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Jerry Lynn On His Infamous WWF Shoot Promo & The Invasion:
On his recovery from neck surgery:
I'm still in pain because I still have a bulging disc that's hitting the
nerve root that shoots down my left leg but the main thing was that I got my
neck fixed. I went to see the doctor initially because I had the pain shooting
down my leg but I also had numbness and tingling down my arm. They showed me an
MRI on my neck and it was pretty bad and they said I needed to get it taken care
of as soon as possible, they said if I would end up in a car accident or had a
bad fall I'd end up with some very serious injuries. He didn't want to say the
"P" word but he pretty much was saying I'd be paralyzed and he also said that he
was surprised I was doing as well as I was. In the last couple of years that I
wrestled in every other match i wrestled I'd get a stinger that would shoot down
my arm so I think I was very fortunate that God was watching over my because
there is no telling how many times I could have been paralyzed.
The Go-Fund me campaign to help with his medical bills:
It was overwhelming. I saw fans from all over the world. Fans from
Japan, Mexico, England even Helsinki was one of them. It wasn't just the fans
because there were promoters that I worked for, there were wrestlers and it was
really amazing and like I said very overwhelming. I always said there is no
crying in wrestling but it brought tears to my eyes.
The moment he realized it was time to retire and that injuries had
caught up to him:
My first back injury. I ruptured a disc training for the first time I
was supposed to wrestle RVD in TNA and it pretty much ended my full time career,
just like that. I knew I wasn't a spring chicken anymore and I was hurting and I
knew I couldn't move like I could ten years before. The time to quit was coming
I just didn't know it was going to be that abruptly. After that injury I felt
better and I didn't have the shooting pain down my leg and thought I would just
wrestle part time. But after every match my body was just screaming at me "what
are you doing" so finally I knew it was time but it's hard to accept. I was into
my 24th year of wrestling and it was kind of hard to just give up and it just so
happened I was wrestling Dan Maff for Pro Wrestling Syndicate and he had gotten
concussed during the match, I didn't know it and I don't think he did either but
he was pretty loopy and then because of that he took a DDT bad and got a bad
stinger and couldn't feel his legs. i had to pretty much pull him on top of me
for the pin and when they were taking a look at him it was like a light went off
and I just realized I'm pushing my luck. It was right then and there looking at
him that I grabbed the mic and announced that was the last year I was going to
wrestle.
Being booked on his retirement tour, working with Indy talent:
I thought alright, I'll just have one or two matches a month and call it
quits at the end of the year. As soon as word got out that it was my last year
the phone started ringing off the hook and I forgot how many regulars I used to
have on the Indy scene because I never killed anyone with my fee because I
wanted repeat work. All of a sudden all these regulars that I worked for are
coming out of the wood-work to book me one last time. So I ended up wanting to
only have or or two matches a month to having double and triple shots every
weekend. It was hard and in a lot of them they wanted me to work their best guy
and they want some twenty five to thirty minute X-Division spectacular and I'd
say I can't do that anymore. I'm retiring for a reason, my body is shot. I'd be
begging for them to put me in a three way or a four way.
Being trained by Brad Rheingans, his style and what he
emphasized:
It was tough and it was not a walk in the park. It was a lot of
repetition that would eventually become like second nature. A lot of
conditioning. The first few weeks we didn't even get into a ring it was all
amateur wrestling on mats and then if you were doing something wrong he would
get in there with you and back then there was a huge, huge emphasis on safety
and taking care of each other because you all had to get up and go to the next
town and work the next day so it was very important because something as simple
as hitting the ropes is dangerous. There was always a big emphasis on safety and
if you did something wrong he would get in there and show you what you were
doing wrong and how it felt and he would shoot on you and hook you a little bit
just so you knew how it felt.
Jerry Lynn also covers his entire run in Global, becoming Mr. JL in WCW,
the calamity that was WCW's backstage, getting the chance in ECW, first
impressions of Paul Heyman, feuding with RVD and Justin Credible, winning the
ECW Title, not liking his run in WWE, TNA, working backstage and his
retirement.
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