{"id":1839440,"date":"2023-02-08T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839440"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T13:24:05","slug":"wwe-legend-jerry-the-king-lawler-hospitalized-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wwe-legend-jerry-the-king-lawler-hospitalized-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Legend Jerry \u201cThe King\u201d Lawler Hospitalized in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwwe-legend-jerry-the-king-lawler-hospitalized-in-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1839440&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Jerry \u201cthe King\u201d Lawler, a legend of professional wrestling, was reportedly hospitalized in Florida after suffering from a \u201cserious medical episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PWInsider, a wrestling website reports that Lawler, aged 73 years old, had lunch with some friends on Monday. Lawler was then taken to the hospital by his family. \u201ctook ill.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2023\/02\/07\/jerry-lawler-suffers-stroke-florida-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Action News 5<\/a>NBC Memphis&#8217; affiliate reports that Lawler suffered a stroke at Fort Myers, Fla. He is now in recovery in the hospital, having had surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Melzer, a reporter for Wrestling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davemeltzerWON\/status\/1623037156964040704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This was tweeted<\/a> \u201cLawler is awake, but his situation is very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawler suffered a stroke in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/01\/18\/jerry-lawler-recalls-night-he-nearly-died-in-the-wwe-ring\/\">In 2012, a heart attack was recorded on live television<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope my friend is going to okay,\u201d Ricky Morton, a long-time professional wrestler, tweeted. \u201cLove you, Jerry.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25662520\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" 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https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-29.jpg, 93&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 140w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-30.jpg, 71&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 107w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-31.jpg, 62&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 93w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-32.jpg, 56&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 84w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-33.jpg, 133&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-34.jpg, 154&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-35.jpg, 215&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-36.jpg, 58&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-37.jpg, 100&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-471040608-38.jpg, 33&#038;quality=75&#038;strip=all 50w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>According to reports, Jerry Lawler suffered a stroke while in Florida.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lawler has been in the business of wrestling for over 50 years. He started his career in Memphis in 1970. Lawler continued to compete on the independent circuit well into his 70s. He was in a match against Scott Steiner last season.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler has been best known to national wrestling fans as a member of WWE\u2019s commentary team, which he joined back in 1992. His partnership with Jim Ross during WWE\u2019s fabled \u201cAttitude Era\u201d These moments are the soundtrack of company history. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-144358304.jpg\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"25662519\"><\/p>\n<p><\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"25662519\" width=\"747\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-144358304.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry \" the King \/><\/a><figcaption>Jerry \u201cthe King\u201d Lawler 2012<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawler has been a commentator on preshow panels on PPVs since 2016, including Jan. 28 at Royal Rumble. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry \u201cthe King\u201d Lawler, a legend of professional wrestling, was reportedly hospitalized in Florida after suffering from a \u201cserious medical episode.\u201d PWInsider, a wrestling website reports that Lawler, aged 73 years old, had lunch with some friends on Monday. Lawler was then taken to the hospital by his family. \u201ctook ill.\u201d Action News 5NBC Memphis&#8217; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1839443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7648,6962,5113,4190,7613,18002,9610,10027],"class_list":["post-1839440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-king","tag-the","tag-florida","tag-hospitalized","tag-jerry","tag-lawler","tag-legend","tag-wwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}