What happened with Andy Kaufman?
In 1981 comedian Andy Kaufman started doing a serious of inter gender matches with women in the crowd. Kaufman then started doing interviews where he would trash wrestling fans. Finally wrestler Jerry Lawler challeged him to a match which Lawler won very easily but injured Kaufman’s neck. In July 1982 Kaufman and Lawler appeared on the Late Night with David Letterman. The two were on the show basically to talk about their rivalry but it got ugly when Lawler started pushing Kaufman around. The segment ended when Kaufman got fed up, cussed Lawler out, and then walked off the set. The incident gave huge publicity to the two men and Kaufman returned to Memphis wrestling soon after as a manager and their feud went on for a while after. Even though it was believed to be a real life feud at one time the whole thing was just a work. Lawler and Kaufman were actually friends in real life.
