Sun UK Interviews Jerry Lawler

The Sun UK website has a recent candid interview with WWE Raw commentator and wrestler, Jerry "The King" Lawler. In this interview Lawler discusses the hectic workload that comes with the Road to Wrestlemania, as well as how he feels about working with Michael Cole and not Jim Ross quite so much. In addition, Lawler had some interesting comments regarding Vince McMahon, Mick Foley as a commentator and Lawler possibly wrestling full time. Here's an excerpt regarding how Vince McMahon interacts with announcers:

SUN UK: Mick Foley was very vocal when he left WWE, saying Vince McMahon was shouting in his headset and telling the announcers off too much. Is that true?

LAWLER: Let’s face it, Vince is the man who owns the company and he has definite ideas about how he wants things done.

And if you do something that he doesn’t approve of, then he’s going to let you know it.

I don’t know if I’m fortunate, or if Vince is just a big fan of my work, but he absolutely in the 15 years of me doing it has never ever yelled at me. Not even once.

I was surprised when I heard that from Mick.

But Vince has a direct line to every announcer.

If we’re doing a broadcast and Vince wants to say something to me, Michael Cole doesn’t hear it, and the same goes with Michael Cole.

So occasionally, after a show, Michael will say: “Oh man, Vince yelled at me when I screwed this up.”

But if you’re out there doing a good job, and saying what you’re supposed to say, he’s not going to yell at you!

Another interesting tidbit in the Lawler interview is when he talks about the recent Chris Jericho fan incident where Jericho hit a female fan after being mobbed by fans and the altercation was caught on tape. Lawler recalls an interesting story involving a conversation between himself, Vince McMahon and Jericho, and basically discusses how Jericho excels at playing the bad guy role.

Read the full Sun UK interview with Jerry Lawler here.