New Discovery! 1983 Jerry Lawler First Series Wrestling Cards 18 card set Hulk Hogan Ric Flair Andre
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It has been a few months ago but I got a text from a collector that he had something interesting for me. He said he had a rare 1983 wrestling card set that was sold in Memphis at Guy Coffee's gimmick table. I did some quick legwork and learned about Guy Coffee and his concession stand at the wrestling shows so that appeared legitimate. Anyways, I end up buying the complete set of 18 cards. This set has Jerry Lawler in each of the cards but I was pleased to find a Ric Flair, The Hulk (instead of full Hulk Hogan) , and an Andre the Giant card in the set. Dpeck and I are buddies with Gregg a vendor, and Gregg was going to have some time with Jerry Lawler last weekend at WrestleCon. I had Gregg text Lawler about these cards and Lawler further confirmed that they made a few hundred of these cards and he has an uncut sheet of them left. It was awesome to know more of the story and to have Lawler himself speak about the production of these cards. It was a regional issue of only a few hundred so it was some of the most rare cards that you will ever find of Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Andre the Giant. This wasn't a big production, but these are legitimate and I would be thrilled if PSA would slab these cards. Here is the set from 1983 that even the most diehard of wrestling card collectors knew little to nothing about
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Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
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ah the good old AWA !!!
I love this stuff. You just can't find good entertainment like this anywhere else. Thank you for sharing this story, this was just awesome to read. The cards, the text message, the whole story is just awesome.
Rob hopefully you can get with PSA and get these graded.
Jerry obviously said in the text he made them!
I am certainly going to make an effort to get them slabbed. I really do not care about the grades. It would just be great to have them in a PSA holder.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
I sent the cards with Flair and Hulk Hogan into PSA on my collector's club and I am hoping to have some dialogue with the PSA research team while the cards are at PSA. It is great that your source found an uncut sheet of these. Is there any chance that you can get a picture of them? Any possibility that you may get a chance at the uncut sheet? It seems as though the print count was only a few hundred and may just be the rarest of the rare. Keep those sealed cards coming and all the extras too. I am bumping this thread so others know what you mean on your latest post. I hope you get the sheet too. I may get my hands on a RAX roast beef set sealed. My fingers are crossed!
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Here you go Rob. Maybe PSA can take this as proof of the checklist.
Wow, what a find. If you are not going to go after that sheet please let me know and I would love to make a run at it. It would be nice to put with what I found earlier this year. It's pretty crazy that the most advanced wrestling card collectors did not even know about this set and then here in 2020 I find a set randomly and then you share the uncut sheet to the masses. How exciting. I hope this helps PSA develop an opinion to grade these cards. Pretty spectacular to add cards of Hulk, Flair and Andre from the early 80s in addition to a complete set of Jerry Lawler himself. Thanks for sharing these pictures.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
That is amazing and what a story. Things like this is why I collect MMA. UFC has only been around since 1993 but the 90s in general are like a black hole of information... and not much survived. Love the stories and the bits of history that surface.
Those are awesome. I want a set right now.
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