Lawler has heartache and the crowd is left in the dark

So last night during a match between the prime time players and Bryant/Kane Jerry "the king" Lawler had a heartache at ringside and taken to the back and had CPR done before taken to a local Montreal hospital were he is now stable and will need heart surgery and will miss a lot of action including this Sunday's night of champions.

The whole thing made me sick as Michael Cole made sure that the viewers were informed but because the show has to go on and they had to sell the PPV they conveniently forgot to tell the Montreal crowd what was going on. This means that the crowd saw Lawler be carted off on a stretcher and because they were not give the same stuff that the viewer did most of the crowd not checking the internet thought it was a part of the act which it was not. I know last night that the crowd was not in on it as the crowd was still wired and going on like nothing happened and it really did not make me very comfortable about being a wrestling fan and it does happened every so often but I have not felt this way since the Chris Benoit murder/suicide situation happened. This of course has happened before when Owen Hart tried to be lowered to the ring from above and instead went crashing to the mat and was dead on impact and Jim Ross had to announce that hart had died and with a heavy heart we will be finishing the show and the crowd in Kansas City knew what had happened.

Then learning from someone who at the show that no public address announcement was given to the paying crowd and then when John Cena went off script but really did not I thought that would be a perfect time to bring some reality to the situation but instead stay on script and said something in french about Punk and that was not the right decision. I was also shocked that when Cena came down to the ring he had nothing to say and when Brett Hart and Cena started the final segment like nothing happened and just try to sell the PPV to an audience that was in shock of what Cole said in the last hour and nobody is buying the show because of what happened in the final segment.

The whole thing drives home that it is a circus and they have to sell their product in the face of a horrible situation and unlike Benoit it cut and dry and the whole thing would of not bitten the WWE in the butt but the way they decided to portray things will.

It is a sad day to be a wrestling fan

Tom Mehegan