WWE: Jerry Lawler Reveals How Much He Was Paid to Wrestle at WrestleMania 27

Jerry “The King” Lawler has worked for WWE since 1993 mostly as an announcer, but he also wrestled quite a bit too. Aside from missing most of 2001 with the company, he had been featured regularly on television until this year. One of the most surprising things about his WWE run is that he was never booked in a WrestleMania match despite the fact that he was an accomplished wrestler in Memphis before his WWE career. You would have thought that WWE would put him in a WrestleMania match in the mid-90s, but they never did.

In 2011, Lawler was 61 years old and finally got a WrestleMania except it wasn’t against a wrestler. His opponent was fellow announcer Michael Cole, who was doing a heel character at the time and Lawler wanted to shut him up.

On a recent edition of his podcast, Lawler talked about how much he got paid for his only WrestleMania match at WM27 in 2011, which was the awful match with Michael Cole that ended in a Cole “win” even though Lawler really won. Here’s what Lawler said about it:

“My lone WrestleMania match led to my biggest payday ever in the wrestling business. Here’s me, an announcer, having a WrestleMania match with another announcer. In a matter of a few minutes, I got paid $130,000 for that match.”

You can listen to Jerry’s podcast here: http://www.stitcher.com/pod…/dinner-with-the-king/e/50613638