Steven Muehlhausen of Fight Club Chicago spoke with former WWE Creative Writer Court Bauer this week about Jerry Lawler’s medical emergency on Monday’s Raw and whether WWE was right to continue with the show.
“You can always debate that, but on the flip side, if he had died obviously it’s a whole new ballgame. They were in the process of trying to stabilize him and perform CPR. You had roughly about an hour left in the show. I’m sure you can coordinate with USA network to just jump into a re-run of one their programs and just be joined in progress.”
“Their is a lot of pride in promoters like Dana White in that the show must go on and when you can’t do that, it’s like your worst case scenario and its catastrophic. In this case, I felt they did a great job in regrouping by the end. It’s still so peculiar to me seeing a ten minute promo between Cena, Punk and Bret Hart. It just felt so weird and their was such a disconnect from it because real life was unfolding and there was something very real and crazy going on backstage.”
“From a business point of view, yes you are living to your obligation with the USA Network, but I don’t think any of that will capture anyone to buy Night of Champions. It will be a blur to people with what was said between Punk and Cena.”
i beg to differ with this Bauer Guy. I commend Michael Cole for remaining at ringside to keep US the people informed as information came in, i commend Bret Hart, John Cena, and CM Punk for going ahead and finishing Raw out, as King would have preferred it. They did an amazing job, Cole did too, to do what they had to do knowing full well what was going on backstage, and tried as they might, you could still tell by the looks on their faces where their hearts were. any other night, that would have been an epic closing promo segment! LONG LIVE THE KING
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Harry
Date: Sep 13, 2012 at 3:27 pmi beg to differ with this Bauer Guy. I commend Michael Cole for remaining at ringside to keep US the people informed as information came in, i commend Bret Hart, John Cena, and CM Punk for going ahead and finishing Raw out, as King would have preferred it. They did an amazing job, Cole did too, to do what they had to do knowing full well what was going on backstage, and tried as they might, you could still tell by the looks on their faces where their hearts were. any other night, that would have been an epic closing promo segment! LONG LIVE THE KING