Which shows you he wasn’t/isn’t very smart. Kind of like sticking your head into a lion’s mouth when he hasn’t eating in a very long time. There are going to be consequences.
Post #15 was joking, he died of cancer.
You do know that Lawler was in on the whole thing right. He thought it was hilarious, and great promoting for wrestling which was still very regional at he time. Really you have to wonder how much of the success of the WWF/E came about because of that gag which made wrestling national for months.