Jerry Lawler Reveals He Once Made Vince McMahon Cry

WWE Hall Of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler revealed a touching story of how he once made Vince McMahon cry when he presented the chairman of WWE a painted a portrait of Vince, his son Shane, and his father Vince Mcmahon Sr. Lawler explained that when McMahon saw the portrait he cried in the corner of the room. Thanks to WrestleZone for the transcript.

“I can’t tell you how many years ago it’s been. I don’t know where I got the idea from, but anyway I did a portrait, a big nice portrait for Vince. It was like a triple portrait, a portrait where Vince was in the middle, on the left of Vince was his son Shane and on the right of Vince was his father Vince, Sr. and so I did this portrait, worked on it a long time.

“It really turned out great. I had it all framed up and I took it to one of the Monday Night RAWs and I had it all wrapped up and anyway I saw Stephanie and I unwrapped it and she saw it and said, ‘Oh my gosh, Vince is gonna cry,’ and I went, ‘What?’ She said, ‘I’m telling you, he’s gonna cry when he sees that.’ I said, ‘No, no way.’

“She said, ‘Mark my words.’ Anyway she went out and a little bit later I saw Vince and I said, ‘Vince, I’ve got something I want to give to you, if you’ve got a minute.’ So I had him come into my room there and I opened the portrait up and he immediately looked at it and his hand came up and covered his mouth and he turned away like immediately. His hand came up.

“He turned away and walked over into a corner and he just stood there for maybe a couple of minutes and then he like slowly came back and looked at the picture again. I think it brought tears to his eyes. I was shocked and then he hugged me and said how much it meant to him and all that sort of stuff.

“That was like the one moment that I ever really saw from Vince that kind of emotion. I think it’s still hanging in his office.”