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Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler found himself in a very delicate position with fans after making a controversial comment on April 13th’s edition of WWE Raw.
During a match between Austin Theory and Akira Tozawa, he referred to Akira’s senton as a “Ramen Noodle Moonsault”, which received a lot of backlash for having racial undertones.
Jerry Lawler just called Tozawa’s senton on Austin Theory the "Ramen Noodle Moonsault”. #WWE #RAW pic.twitter.com/wi9zor3o2b
— Get The Tables (@GetDaTables) April 14, 2020
During the latest episode of Jerry Lawler’s podcast, he spoke on the remark.
“Are we not going to talk about the elephant in the room from last week? I said the word ramen noodles on Raw. [The] next thing you know, the internet blows up and I’m a big racist. Let me go back and explain what I was doing and why being racist was the furthest thing from my mind.”
Lawler explained while doing commentary with Mauro Ranallo in 2016, Mauro pointed out a move, which Lawler never heard of. Lawler explained it was something similar to “orange crush tiger bomb blah blah senton”.
He went on to say that even though he’s been in the business for a lengthy time, he rarely knows the names of some of the moves. He wrote down a couple of the names of the moves people had mentioned to repeat to Ranallo when he was commentating with him again.
He explained that he had excellent chemistry with Michael Cole and Jim Ross, to the point where both of them understood that he was joking when he claimed that he knew the name of a move.
He finished by saying how Byron Saxton and Tom Phillips, the people he was commentating with during that episode of RAW, didn’t have the chemistry to understand that he was only joking.
Lawler didn’t end up issuing any apology, rather explained his side of the story.
Check out the full episode below
Special thanks to SEScoops for the quotes used in this article.