Love Quote by Jerry Lawler

There is a whole civic identity smuggled into that clunky sentence. Jerry Lawler isn’t really offering a statistic about “popularity”; he’s blessing a loyalty loop. In Memphis wrestling, the point was never novelty for novelty’s sake. It was ritual: familiar villains, recurring grudges, catchphrases that worked like local slang. Lawler’s phrasing, “grown to know and love,” frames fandom as something cultivated over time, almost familial, not a consumer preference that can be chased with constant reinvention.

The awkwardness is part of the authenticity. He talks like a guy still half in character, half behind the curtain, trying to sound reasonable while selling the product. “Judging from what looks like” is a hedge that also functions as an invitation: you see it too, right? The crowd, the noise, the staying power. He’s translating visceral proof into a folksy kind of market research.

The subtext is protective, even defensive. Memphis wrestling was built on territory-era intimacy, long before wrestling became a glossy, nationally branded content machine. Saying people like what they “know” is a subtle pushback against outside pressures to modernize, polish, or import trends. It’s also a reminder that nostalgia isn’t just sentimentality; it’s infrastructure. If a community keeps showing up for the same show, decade after decade, that’s not stagnation. It’s a shared script that makes a city feel like itself.