Indy Promoter Tells Interesting Story About Brian Christopher Lawler Working His Event
There is a story that has been making rounds online, as it garnered a lot of attention on Reddit as well as other wrestling news sites, from a small indy promoter/wrestler who shared a pretty incredible story about his experience and memories with the late Brian Christopher Lawler.
Dan McDevitt, who wrestles under the name “Corporal Punishment”, told a story on his personal facebook page regarding one of the first times he met Brian Lawler when he had booked the former WWE Superstar to wrestle an indy event in West Virginia.
You can read Dan’s story remembering Brian below.
“I try not to judge people on how they treated me. One of the first times I ever met “Grandmaster Sexay” Brian Christopher he worked for me in Paw Paw West Virginia, a town seemingly in the middle of nowhere. The show absolutely bombed and he was fresh off WWE TV and was at the same time very over just coming off his run as “Too Cool.” That means his price tag was steep (several thousand dollars.)
He went to the ring and worked as hard in front of 100 people as he would have if there were 3,000 people in the building. I paid him and shook his hand and thanked him. As we were dealing with the end of the show stuff he walked up and handed me an envelope and it had over half his money in it. He said to me, “I have been around this business my whole life, I know you guys lost your ass tonight, take this back and lessen the blow and make it up to me down the road.” In 25 years in pro wrestling, he is the only star that has ever done that.
He had his demons, but that’s how I remember him, how he treated me, as a good kindhearted dude. May he rest in peace and hopefully his father, Jerry Lawler finds peace as well.”
You can see the facebook post from Dan embedded below.
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