When Kaufman wasn't on stage or screen, he was often in the ring, offering $500 to the first woman who could pin him. He declared himself the World Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion. On Tuesday nights, America was watching him on Taxi. On Monday nights, he was wrestling in an auditorium in Memphis, taunting the crowd and playing the heel. He liked to lay it on thick, with sexist and anti-Southern tirades, and the capacity crowds loved to hate him.