Jerry Lawler Criticized For Racially Insensitive Remark On Monday Night Raw

I don’t see this one going well. There are certain topics that wrestling tends to shy away from most of the time. More often than not, this is a smart move as there is very little to gain from moving in certain directions. Sometimes these things are brought up anyway, and they can cause a lot of problems at the same time. That was the case this week on television.

WWE commentary is something that doesn’t get a lot of praise. The company has a host of different commentators and a lot of them are relatively interchangeable. At the end of the day, most of them are just saying what Vince McMahon wants them to say, but every now and then you’ll get in a comment that is more original. That happened Monday and it has not gone well.

During a match between Akira Tozawa and Austin Theory on this week’s Monday Night Raw, Jerry Lawler referred to a moonsault as a “Ramen Noodle moonsault”. The line was viewed as racially insensitive as Tozawa is Japanese. There is no word on any potential punishment for Lawler. According to Fightful.com, Lawler’s line was removed from the Hulu edition of the show.

It wasn’t something that was going to go well. Check out the match in question:

Opinion: I’m not sure why Lawler used this line as there was almost no way it was going to be well received. This is something similar to what got Jim Cornette in trouble with Major League Wrestling and there is no reason to believe it won’t be the same thing here. I don’t know if Lawler will be in trouble over this, but it is not something that is going to be seen in a positive light no matter what.

Will Lawler be in trouble for this? Should he still be on the show? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books. Get the latest and greatest in professional wrestling news by signing up for our daily email newsletter. Just look below for “GET EXCLUSIVE UPDATES” to sign up. Thank you for reading!