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WWE’s Jerry Lawler, girlfriend arrested in wild domestic violence dispute

WWE color commentator Jerry Lawler discusses fake fights for a living, but things got real in his Memphis home late Saturday when he and his girlfriend were both arrested on domestic violence charges, WREG reported.

Lawler, 66, said his 27-year-old girlfriend, Lauryn McBride, scratched him in the face, threw a candle at him and kicked him in the groin, while McBride said Lawler struck her in the head and pushed her against a stove.

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McBride also said Lawler put an unloaded pistol on the kitchen counter and told her to kill herself.