Tom Savini Gets Jason Into Wrestling
I don’t know why I am going down this path, but I thought this was worth a mention as one, it involves Tom Savini, and two, it’s Jason Voorhees. I found this video while visiting the Night Owl forums and I thought it was funny and also sad.
For those who do not follow professional wrestling, Jerry Lawler has been a mainstay in the business for the better part of three decades. According to the guy who comments on the video below, Jerry Lawler and Tom Savini have been angling a story line that brought Jason Voorhees to wrestle Jerry Lawler. Now, this might be the silliest thing I have ever seen the Jason character be apart of, well outside of the the weigh-in for Jason and Freddy before their movie was released.
At any rate, have a little fun watching the video and let us know what you think.
WARNING: There is profanity used during the video below. If you do not want the commentary on the video to be heard, turn your sound down or off on your computer.
That is a insult to all Jason Fans In my book! Somebody should get a hold of Kane Hodder.Kane Hodder VS Jerry Lawler.Kane would never fake it.
I couldn’t get all the way through the video. It’s pretty lame in my opinion. This so-called wrestling match tarnishes Jason’s good name!!!
That is no way to treat Jason!!!
Jason kill them all!!!!!!
I hope they never do that again!! ITS AN INSULT!!
Lawler is old! He’s like 60 and still wrestling. Anyways, this is awful. LoL.
…wow…. Just wow…
For those who don’t know wrestling that’s how the CWA operated back in the day. There were always known as a promotion that would find anyone (skilled or not) put them in a costume and build him up for a week or two and then have Jerry win and the costumed guy would leave. Wash, rinse and repeat.
I remember he even had Leatherface in the fold. I think there were at least two guys playing Leatherface in the wrestling world here and in Japan.
Crazy.
I watched about 2 minutes of this and had to turn it off. I have not the slightest clue how anyone finds wrestling entertaining. And every single person who has ever been affiliated with a Friday the 13th movie should sue the sh!t out of the geniuses behind this display of shear retardation for slander and defamation of character. Ugh…wrestling. About the gayest thing you’ll ever see in your lifetime. Such an embarrassment to the American society.
the commentator needs to just stop. whatever he’s trying to do, just stop. wait for puberty first, at least.
That was extremely lame. They shouldve got Kane Hodder. And that narrator is annoying.
What the F@#$ %*&!@ #$&# *&%$!!!
As I sit down here with my late dinner I must admit:
I decied to watch, but even I as a big time old school retro wrestling fan who owns many of the WWE boxsets of they’re older product as well as WCW stuff, I just BARELY made it through. Like a lot of old school genre fanatics, I actually like and apprechiate fairly well written pro-wrestling storylines, as well as a fairly well put together match up of sports entertainers (which is ultimately what pro-wrestling is). But yeah, that was pretty lame. And I know all about Kayfabe and the like and that yeah, it IS scrited and staged, but even still I know many get hurt all the time.
But the Shelby County/Memphis wrestling has always pretty pretty much third tier and very tired at best. Also while I agree it’s a pretty bad Jason performance and not a well put together match-up, and the commentary most certainly makes it SO MUCH MORE WORSE, if you guys this THIS if bad, then you ain’t seen nothing until you go on YouTube and you see some of the lesser days of WCW (which is basically all I watched back in the day, with me being on & off yearly alternatively on WWF). I mean for Christ sakes they had an actor in RoboCop gear during the theatrical promotion of RoboCop 2 from the same director of The Emire Strikes Back and The Big Chill, and so I guess in conjuction with the studio they all got away with it. Seeming him help Sting was a pretty low-point for me even then as a young fanatic, as I thought it was the dumbest shit ever, I’m sorry.
I honestly ever only heard of the classic Slasher series characters being used maybe in Fangoria during visits to Spooky World or Brutal Planet or some of the bigger North American haunted house attractions in some wrestling matches that they also advertised as good, silly fun. I honestly also don’t know how they didn’t get sued, but my guess is that this video shows it was clearly in the past and was all in good fun … albiet gone horribly wrong, and that prick Mr. Savini TRUELY needs to feel ashamed of himself. Guess it was all pretty low-key back in the day. Personally I prefer the wrestling left up to the proefessionals. Gotta agree this was all pretty sad as all fuck to watch.
And the commentary indeed makes it even more so.
Wait I minute: I just re-watched a part of this and realized that this was this month. Ugh. I wish I had noticed that instead of saying this was in the past. I had gotten up for a moment as it played, and I had to run it back. My bad.
But yeah, all in all pretty lame. I don’t blame others at all for shutting it off. The first three or so minutes with them quite obviously “in character” and trying to take the supposedly real ‘machete’ away from “Jason Voorhees” (yeah, I know) is all pretty sad to watch.
Of only mild interest, I had no idea that Tom Savini was a close/personal friend of Andy Kaufman during his final years. I know that Tom did the make-up for a Andy Worhal photoshoot for a magazine, but I didn’t know that back in his much more in-demand early Fangoria issues days that he had infamous friends (albiet very annoying ones such as Mr. Kaufman). Interesting, if nothing else.
I don’t understand why everyone was bashing the narrator of the video. I mean some people talk different than others, and he was just explaining the clip in his own personality. But to each it’s own I guess… I mean at least he wasn’t supporting the garbage.
But there is one thing I learned from this video. If you are ever assaulted by Jason, all you need is one fat guy and two chains and he can be restrained..
Steve
mWd