(Best Quality) Joe Leduc Threatens Jerry Lawler with an Axe 1978

Memphis Wrestling Broadcast Masters. Copyright owned by 70s-TV. This clip is from Volume 5 available in even better quality on Dvd from 70s-tv.com.

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Jim Cornette brought me here.

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me too buddy!

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[@kevinpayton2664]

Memphis Wrestling was ahead of its time. Leduc cutting himself with that axe was considered hardcore at that time.

[@manuelper]

Shit, by today's super PG standards, that shit is hardcore. Joe Leduc was terrifying, lol.

[@60BloodyChamp60]

That’s hardcore right now lol

[@joselathario]

U ever flip through a pwi magazine from back in the 70s and 80s? Hardcore has been around for a long ass time, it just didn't have a name back then. U couldn't flip through any of those magazines without seeing tons of bloody pictures.

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@@joselathario I used to read those magazines and you're right, there were a lot of pictures of bloodied wrestlers.

[@King4sshole89]

There's no time period that this isn't hardcore.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

3:37 - Awesome reaction from Lance, he sold that incredible segment so well. I'm sure a bunch of people watching at home thought it was fake and funny, but once they saw Lance's reaction they realized it was no joke and Leduc legit cut his arm right there and then. Fantastic way to sell a match.

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He was a great Babyface but when he turned Heel he was scary as Hell.

[@thebrotherhoodofsleep9857]

Lance Russel looks visibly shaken!

[@L0wki]

thats why this Stuff looks so real. Lance Russel was the Voice of Reason in Mephis. God bless his Soul.

[@TonyMontana-qv8cx]

Can u blame him?

[@scott917]

I saw him do this live on tv. I was 8 years old, I thought he was crazy. But if I remember he did clean Jerry Lawlers clock that monday night.

[@sirric5157]

My fav episodes of Memphis wrestling late 70's!

[@Danimal77]

That's intense and disturbing. There are kids in the audience and the guys slicing open his arms with an axe. No wonder the camera man didn't zoom in.

[@trev358]

Yeah, it really IS quite disturbing and graphic - ESPECIALLY for something broadcast in the LATE '70S! But enjoyable, nevertheless...

[@greedyd5524]

Leduc: People think I’m crazy. Black woman: You are

[@tonyd7601]

I remember Mr LaDuc boy he got heat. He threw Lawler on a table outside the ring. It was hardcore with LaDuc...

[@jojst1]

Reports say it was 9 feet in distance. Ouch!

[@walruswasrob]

When you make Lance Russell speechless. 😂

[@williamschutz4982]

Thank you for posting this!!!! Brinngs back being a youngster for me.

[@85futureshock]

Joe Leduc is one of the only few characters from the 70's/80's that would have fit in FMW, ECW or CZW.

[@jamie.777]

85futureshock as crazy as Jos Leduc was he was 10 times the wrestler that a current czw "wrestler" could ever be, they cut themselves about thousand times more, and wrestle in front of tiny crowds for no money. Yes, Jos was a legend...

[@adamfein4970]

This is one of the greatest promos of all time.

[@alfredmcdaniels639]

This should be played in promo classes today....

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Your awesome ive been wanting to see some old memphis wrestling

[@Mick_Hale]

Remember when rasslin' was fucking awesome? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@zt1053]

Jos Lesduc was in the Hulk Hogan movie No Holds Barred

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If only he was still wrestling today.

[@franz8072]

That man was insane

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Thanks for the video

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You have to love Lance...R.I.P.

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Free tickets all you need was a self stamped envelope

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Jim Cornette brought this millennial wrestling fan here

[@kevinpayton2664]

I remember that. I was five years old and was scared of Joe Leduc.

[@pniiice]

I was 10 and saw that on the Louisville broadcast

[@dawa7267]

Watched this as it happened. My older sister, a wrestling fanatic, was screaming at this as if Leduc was chasing her with the axe! 😆 Completely freakin' out at him cutting his arm! Good times! 😂😂

[@RZLAND]

I was there! It was wild.

[@garylee349]

Good old days

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John Cena I'm sure is happy joe leduc is long gone!

[@Yellowrose71]

I am literally covering the screen. I can’t watch. Man these were the good days!!!

[@richardbishop8666]

Joe leduc scared the hell out of me when I was a kid!! I just knew he was going to kill Jerry Lawler.

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Damn instant classic 👌🔥👏

[@cornellgreen3692]

This was rasslin', not this sports entertainment dreck that passes for wrestling today.

[@jackiemiller8652]

We moved to Southaven MS (suburb of Memphis) about a week or two after this happened and I was about 10 or 12 years old and did not watch wrestling. But my family dropped off the first load and went back about an hour to get the second load and when we got back our yard ( in SH ) and the front of our street was full of kids because my dad looked just like Joe LaDuc...

[@joselathario]

Joe Leduc brought me here...

[@tylerryan7697]

hes only 34 here. Dude looks like hes 50

[@donaldrhoads8880]

People in that crowd antagonizing a guy with an axe that just sliced his arm. They nuts?

[@LampLoungeLive]

Dope

[@WastingTime1878]

I am 30 and I am still scared of this maniac. What a gimmick.

[@andrethegiant3035]

Now this guy looks like a pro wrestler! Big mean and with an axe? Yeah why the fuck not

[@jallenw.67]

Lance said come on Joe. Lmao

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Love it

[@garylee349]

He is real

[@kevinpayton2664]

I wonder was this before or after Joe threw Jerry over the top rope and Jerry hit the announcing table at the Mid-South Coliseum.

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Look at Lance haha, he looks perturbed but actually he’s hard as a rock under that polyester suit. Hard from knowing the business they are about to do.

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Do the DVDs have the 70s-TV watermark in the footage?

[@rickcrane3804]

Yes they do. I wish not but so many people have tried to copy it, sell it and repost. Thanks for your interest.

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That's too bad, but I do understand. Thanks

[@lxlkl8359]

is that a quadriplegic in the back??

[@dietrichnicholson6569]

No born without arms and legs. Dude could do almost anything. Drive a car, drive off diving boards. Was kind of well known in the Fraser, and Raleigh areas of memphis. Amazing guy.

[@markjones952]

Didn't someone think to call the authorities? This man has an axe and is bleeding from his head!!! (Plus he's Canadian.)

[@DeeEllEff]

Hello, 911? There’s a large man carrying an axe here and he’s bleeding from his head. Wait, by any chance, is he a French Canadian wrestler? Yes, how’d you know? Just call it a hunch...

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huge muffin top going on.

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Jim Cornette brought me here?

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who the hell is jim cornhead?

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Jim Cornette brought me here

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Good old days