Comedian Andy Kaufman is the next inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame, despite never actually wrestling for WWE or WWF.
, over 40 years after his infamous wrestling feud with Jerry “The King” Lawler in Memphis’s Continental Wrestling Association., Kaufman started to incorporate pro wrestling into his live comedy performances in 1979. He regularly wrestled women and proclaimed himself the Women’s Wrestling Champion of the World, and later introduced the World Intergender Wrestling Championship.
Kaufman probably would’ve gotten over as a heel in any territory, given how good he was at trolling audiences, but he fit perfectly in Memphis, where he would routinely insult the Southern crowd for being dumb backwoods hicks while playing up his own Hollywood celebrity status. Lawler would stick up for Memphis and the fans, at one point “breaking” Kaufman’s neck with a piledriver in a worked wrestling angle.
Kaufman is the third 2023 inductee for the WWE Hall of Fame to be officially announced, alongside wrestlers Rey Mysterio and Keiji “The Great Muta” Mutoh. Two of the three, Kaufman and Mutoh, never actually wrestled for WWE or WWF, but the company has long tried to present itself as the custodian of all of pro wrestling history, despite routinely ignoring or distorting any parts of wrestling history that don’t fit the company’s narrative.
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