"The question Mr. Lawler is posing is should ECW even exist?"

[It's the 200th episode of RAW, and the first since the name change from "Monday Night RAW" to "RAW is WAR" / "WAR Zone". Jim Ross is in the ring with Jerry 'The King' Lawler, ready to host a debate between Lawler and Paul E. Dangerously, the head of ECW, after that promotions stars have begun to invade and disrupt WWF shows in recent weeks]

Jim Ross: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the great debate. In the ring, representing himself, Jerry 'The King' Lawler! [the crowd boos] And please welcome, representing Extreme Championship Wrestling, Paul E. Dangerously. [Dangerously makes his way down the ramp and into the ring, taking his place at the podium] All right. Gentlemen, the premise here that Mr. Lawler-- the question, Mr. Lawler is posing is should ECW - Extreme Championship Wrestling - even exist? [crowd cheering] We will-- We had our obligatory coin toss in the locker room area, of course, and Mr. Lawler did win the toss, Mr. Dangerously, as you're aware. So Mr. Lawler will start our debate with a ninety-second opening."

Jerry Lawler: "First of all let me say this: The question is not whether ECW should exist, my question is whether ECW does exist? Because you see something, Paul E., you are being seen right now by more people at this very minute-- [a number of ECW wrestlers make their way to ringside] Oh yeah, hey, wait, what's this? Yeah. Just keep them out there if you don't mind. You're being seen by more people right now at this very minute, than you have ever been seen by in your entire life. Because your little rinky-dink ECW promotion is a bunch of misfits, a bunch of thugs, and a bunch of has-beens that couldn't catch on with any legitimate wrestling organization. [to the ECW wrestlers at ringside] Yeah, listen up, guys. I'm talking about all of you, you understand that? [The Eliminators (John Kronus & Perry Saturn) climb up on to the ring apron]

So what's your idiots did, you all migrated to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, and you all got your little pea brains together and you said, 'Hey, maybe - we can't wrestle - so maybe if we can-- get-- beat ourselves into oblivion with frying pans over our head, or maybe beat each other up with barbwire covered baseball bats, maybe there's enough morons and brain damaged idiots in the City of Philadelphia to come and see us.' And you know what, Paul E.? You go down to a bingo hall once in a month in Philadelphia, and you put on your little charades, and you beat each other into oblivion, there's blood running everywhere... And you draw about... well about 1100 people, come to see you do the stuff; 1100 idiots. But you know what--"

Jim Ross: "Your- your time is up."

Jerry Lawler: "My time's not up. I'm gonna let him talk. When the World Wrestling Federation goes to Philadelphia , they put 22000 people into the Corestates Spectrum [Lawler meant to say 'Corestates Centre'. Lawler turns to commentator Vince McMahon] Now, my question for you, McMahon, is if you're trying to entertain us--"

Paul E. Dangerously: "SHUT UP!! SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Jerry Lawler: [ignoring Dangerously] "--you don't really need ECW, just let me set it on fire! That's all you need to do!"

Jim Ross: "Mr. Lawler now, it is his turn."

Paul E. Dangerously: "The fact that the WWF puts 22000 people into seats is not a testament to anything that you've ever accomplished in your whole stinking life! [crowd cheering] The fact-- the fact that we earned the respect of every single one of those 1100 people by bleeding, by sweating, by fighting, by taking each other down and showing these people that we will bust our ass, [crowd cheering] bust our ass to give them their money's worth, that's what ECW is all about! [Sandman, Tommy Dreamer and Beulah come to join their colleagues at ringside] That's why on Sunday night, April 13th, we're gonna give them a pay-per-view - and you're right, Jerry Lawler, you're right: We are very small--" [Sandman, Dreamer and Beulah enter the ring]

Sandman: [to Heyman] "Gimme the 'high sign' and I'll cane his ass right now!"

Paul E. Dangerously: [to Sandman, holding him back] " No, no, no, no, no!"

Jim Ross: "Maintain some decorum, please, if we can."

Jerry Lawler: "You ought to get down on your hands and knees and thank your lucky stars that you're getting to plug a stinking pay-per-view on Monday Night Raw, do you understand that? And why Vince McMahon allows it, I'll never know!"

Paul E. Dangerously: "Look--"

Jerry Lawler: "And you're proud of drawing 1100 people in Philadelphia?"

Paul E. Dangerously: "THE SIZE WE ARE--"

Jerry Lawler: "We have FOUR million people!! There's 1100 morons that have come to watch paint dry!"

Paul E. Dangerously: "...are you shooting? You wanna shoot with me?"

Jerry Lawler: "Yeah, I'm shooting with you, that's right, yeah!"

Paul E. Dangerously: "You wanna shoot with me? Hey, how are you doing at the seesaws in Louisville, Jerry? [see Note 1] Huh? Your own sons [Brian Christopher aka 'Grand Master Sexay' and Kevin Christian], don't call themselves Lawler! Why? Why? 'Cause they're ashamed of your ass! We [ECW] earned everything we got. We give these people their money's worth--"

Jerry Lawler: "You never earned anything in your life: You're a thirty-five-year-old man--

Paul E. Dangerously: "How old are you?! How old are you?!"

Jerry Lawler: "--who still lives with his mother and father. Huh? If it wasn't for your mom and dad who finance this bunch of crap, you wouldn't be anything, you understand that, huh? You wanna shoot with somebody? Why do you hang around with these guys? You're not an athlete--"

Paul E. Dangerously: "I hang around with them because they give the people their money's worth! Because they wanna go on pay-per-view and be extreme! We are the Howard Stern of wrestling! We are what it's all about! We're hardcore and damn proud of it!"

Jerry Lawler: "You know why you hang around with them Paul E.? Because you are a little 'light in the loafers'! Why don't you go ahead and admit it right now?!" [Tommy Dreamer strides over to the podium, incensed]

Tommy Dreamer: "You wanna start a war?! Go get every single one of your guys, and I'll show you how to start-- And let's have war right here and right now!!" [the crowd cheers as Dreamer grabs the debating podium and hurls it to the floor]

Jim Ross: [appealing for calm] "Come on, come on!" [Sandman cracks a beer, raises it to the sky and pours it into his own mouth]

Jerry Lawler: "Oh, yeah, you brought your whole crew down here - don't worry, I got some friends too, you know!" [crowd cheering, all the ECW wrestlers are up on the apron, Sandman is crushing his beer can against his head]

Tommy Dreamer: [off-mic] "Get anybody you want! get anybody you want!" [Dangerously is holding Dreamer back from attacking Lawler]

Jerry Lawler: "You don't--hey, you don't want me to go back there and get my friends because all of my friends--"

Paul E. Dangerously: [to Dreamer] "Tommy! He's not worth it! He's a piece of crap! --"

Jerry Lawler: [to Dreamer] "--in the WWF are about this tall!"

Paul E. Dangerously: [to Dreamer] "--he's a piece of crap, he's not worth it! "

Jerry Lawler: "All right. Hey, shut up. [towards the backstage area] All right. Guys, come on out, right now. Here we go. Right now. All right. Here we go. I'm gonna bring some of my friends out here!"

Paul E. Dangerously: "Who do you got? Who do you got?"

Jerry Lawler: "Come on guys, right now." [No one is coming]

Paul E. Dangerously: "Tell you what, Lawler, [pointing to the assembled ECW stars] take your pick. First two punches are for free!"

Jerry Lawler: "Shut up. I got guys back there. I know they're back-- [to the backstage area] Come on out here. I got friends. Come on..." [still no one appears]

Paul E. Dangerously: "Get your ass out of here now or we're gonna get your ass out for you!"

Jerry Lawler: "Hey, let me tell you something--"

Paul E. Dangerously: "No! You won't tell me anything!"

Jerry Lawler: "You're not gonna do anything, you little punk. These guys might do something. You yourself couldn't do anything, you understand that, Paul E.? What can you do? What can you do personal - personally?"

[the music comes up and the segment ends with Lawler, Dangerously and the assembled ECW wrestlers still in the ring]

- Note 1: Seesaws are a common feature on playgrounds - in this case Dangerously is likely making an allusion to previous accusations against Lawler that have never been proven to be true, were withdrawn by the accuser before trial, and which Lawler has consistently and repeatedly denied.