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Jerry Lawler spent more than half a century putting Memphis on the wrestling map. Today, Memphis put Jerry Lawler on its own map. The city officially unveiled Jerry “The King” Lawler Street—the honorary renaming of Homer Street near Treadwell Middle School—as Jimmy Hart, Dave Brown and the Memphis community joined the celebration. Our contributor Big Mike was there to document history as it happened. Every photograph in this collage is his—including the great shot of Mike with Lawler and Jimmy Hart. Many champions have passed through Memphis. Only one became The King. Now his name lives on in the streets of the city he helped make famous.