Non conoscevo Andy Kaufman, da buon ignorante.
Mi venne accennato qualcosa su di lui, un personaggio per la quale non basterebbero 40 topic per descriverlo.
Mi fu anche accnenato di un suo feud con Jerry Lawler, al tempo non ancora "The King".
Ho fatto ricerche sullo straordinario personaggio di Kaufman, figura a sè, unico.
Affascinato dalla sua storia e dalla passione per il wrestling ho cercato di capire meglio il feud con Lawler, i motivi, le sfaccettature, le scene e tutto quello che ne è conseguito.
Aprire un topic sul Kaufman persona e personaggio sarebbe quasi riduttivo, per cui vorrei soffermarmi "solo" sul feud con Lawler.
Vorrei inoltre riportare un pezzo tratto da Wikipedia:
Tutto partì dalla sfida lancia da Andy alle donne statunitensi:Kaufman grew up admiring professional wrestlers and the world in which they perform. Inspired by the theatricality of kayfabe, the staged nature of the sport, and his own tendency to form elaborate hoaxes, Kaufman began wrestling women during his act and was the self-proclaimed "Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion of the World", taking on an aggressive and ridiculous personality based upon the characters invented by professional wrestlers. He offered a $1,000 prize to any woman who could pin him. He employed his friend, the performance artist Laurie Anderson as a stooge in this act for a while.
Kaufman initially approached then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) owner Vince McMahon, Sr. about bringing his act to the New York territory. McMahon found Kaufman's act too gimmicky and suggested to Kaufman that he try his luck in the Southern wrestling territories, where his gimmick might have more appeal.
Later, after a challenge from professional wrestler Jerry "The King" Lawler, Kaufman would step into the ring (in the Memphis wrestling circuit) with a man — Lawler himself. Their ongoing feud, often featuring Jimmy Hart and other heels in Kaufman's corner, included a broken neck for Kaufman as a result of Lawler's piledriver and a famous on-air fight on a 1982 episode of Late Night with David Letterman. For some time after that, Kaufman appeared everywhere wearing a neck brace, insisting that his injuries were worse than they were. Kaufman would continue to defend the Inter-Gender Championship in the Mid-South Coliseum and offered an extra prize, other than the $1,000: that if he were pinned, the woman who pinned him would get to marry him and that Kaufman would also shave his head.
Kaufman and Lawler's famous feud and wrestling matches were later revealed to have been staged, or a "work", as the two were actually friends. The truth about its being a "work" was not disclosed until more than 10 years after Kaufman's death, when the Emmy-nominated documentary, A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman, aired on NBC in 1995. Coincidentally, Jim Carrey is the one who reveals the secret, and would later go on to play Kaufman in the 1999 film Man on the Moon. In a 1997 interview with the Memphis Flyer, Lawler claimed he had improvised during their first match and the Letterman incident. Although officials at St. Francis Hospital stated that Kaufman's neck injuries were real, in his 2002 biography It's Good to Be the King...Sometimes, Lawler detailed how they came up with the angle and kept it quiet. Even though Kaufman's injury was legitimate, the pair pretended that the injury was more severe than it was. He also said that Kaufman's explosion on Letterman was Kaufman's own idea, including when Lawler slapped Kaufman out of his chair.
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...e tutto continuò, fino a quando Kaufman morì per via di un cancro ai polmoni.
Jimmy Hart accusò Lawler di aver causato tutto questo, ma ciò era in evidente kayfabe.
Pertanto spero che ognuno di voi possa portare il proprio contributo a questo topic con la propria esperienza, raccontando aneddoti e sfaccettature di questo storico feud.
Spero inoltre che possa essere un'iniziativa apprezzata, sono molto curioso di saperne di più di questa faida che è risultata storica.
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