10 Wrestling Romances That Ended In Disaster

Jerry 'The King' Lawler may be mostly familiar to today’s wrestling audience from his heel colour commentary work for the WWF during the Attitude Era, but in Memphis he was the biggest pro wrestling star in the area's history, having held the John Cena role - gritty, never say die babyface overlord - for the entire of the eighties.

That's how a man as nondescript as Jerry Lawler gets the girl. Lawler cheated on his wife with Stacy Carter in the summer of 1989 when she was eighteen, less than half his age. Thing is, this one seems to have been a little different. Ten years later they were still together: they married in 2000, shortly after he'd introduced her to WWF audiences as Miss Kitty, later just The Kat.

The Kat persona was, from all appearances, Carter turned up to eleven. Brazen even by fin de siècle WWF's standards, she was the titillation factor for much of WWF's programming in the eighteen months she worked there until she was let go in February 2001. Persistent rumour was that the company had simply had enough of her attitude problem backstage.

What they didn't count on was that Lawler was genuinely smitten with his young trophy wife, and had been since he'd met her: in solidarity with the woman he loved, he quit the company on the spot.

Sadly, the May/December fairytale wasn't to last. Shortly after making his big gesture, Lawler discovered that his wife had been cheating on him with a wrestler in WWF developmental. The marriage collapsed, and by the end of the year Lawler was back in the WWF, presumably grimly ignoring the I-told-you-so looks.