WWE Pull Lita And Jerry Lawler From TV
Are the stars gone from the company?
F4WOnline is reporting that both Lita and Jerry Lawler have been pulled from their roles as pre-show panelists on the WWE Network. They will no longer be appearing prior to television shows or PPV events. The website went on to say that the analysts are both no longer under full-time deals, but they have been signed to Legends' contracts and will be used sparingly.
Lita first joined WWE in 1999 and helped rewrite the paradigm for women's wrestling in the company. She held the WWE Women's Championship four times before her 2006 retirement, and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame in 2014. Over the past few years, she had made sporadic appearances on WWE TV and had worked as a panelist.
Jerry Lawler has worked for WWE regularly as an announcer and part-time wrestler since 1992. Throughout the course of his career he has been featured on programming consistently, with only a few breaks - in 1993, he was removed after being accused of rape by a 15-year-old girl; in 2001, he quit the company for several months after then-wife Stacy Carter was fired; in 2012, he took time to convalesce after suffering an on-air heart attack; and in 2016, he was suspended after a domestic violence arrest.