Jerry “The King” Lawler is 70 years old, but he doesn’t seem too worried about the coronavirus.
While speaking to
Cerrito Live, Lawler explained that he’s not going to halt his life over the coronavirus. He said there’s not a cure, but people have gotten over it. He’ll be at RAW this week and he’ll be flying to get there.
“What are you gonna do if you get it? They say there’s no treatment for it, there’s no cure for it. What are you gonna do? I’m not gonna hold myself inside a room here and quarantine myself like an idiot for who knows how long.”
“You go on and live your life and if you get sick then you go and get some kind of treatment. As they are saying now, the people that say they don’t recommend air travel they say they don’t have a treatment for this. Now more and more people are coming out and saying ‘well I got it but then I got over it.’”
“I know what I’m gonna do, I’m gonna fly and I’m gonna be at Raw on Monday night … You know why? Because I like to pick up my check every Monday for being at Raw every Monday night.”
Lawler also discussed the effect the outbreak of COVID-19 is having on the world.
However, while discussing the possibility of the situation affecting the Show Of Shows, the WWE Hall Of Famer claimed that it’s not gonna affect the event at all:
“I don’t think it’s gonna affect WrestleMania at all. I’m not trying to downplay it or anything like that. When you listen to what has happened in the past, it’s almost like a cycle. These kinds of things happen every now and then,” Jerry Lawler said.
“There’s nothing you can do about it except react to it as best as we can.”
The former Champion then named other major diseases that have made similar headlines in the past like the Hong Kong flu and swine flu. He said that coronavirus is just another thing we will get through and it’s just the way life is.
