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On the latest episode of his podcast, Jerry āThe Kingā Lawler explained his āRamen Noodleā comment that had many fans on social media upset at him. The comment was from theĀ RawĀ from 2 weeks ago when AkiraĀ TozawaĀ did a senton to the floor during a match and Lawler used āRamen Noodleā as the words to describe the move.
āI said the word āRamen Noodleā on Raw and next thing you know, the internet blows up and Iām a big racist. Let me go back and explain what I was doing and why being racist was the furthest thing from my mind.
It all goes back to 2016 when there was a time when I was doing commentary with Mauro Ranallo,ā Lawler continued. He said he had not worked with Ranallo up to that point and he loved working with him and praised him for his expert knowledge of wrestling moves that came from Japan.
Thatās what was happening to me in 2016. I [was] sitting there and weāre calling a match and Mauro all of a sudden out of the blue this guy does a move. Iāve been in the business for 50 years and I donāt know the names of these crazy moves, right? Iām seeing them for the first time and all of a sudden the guy does a move and Mauro says āthereās the orange crush Tiger Bomb bla bla sentonā and Iām thinking in my mind [that] āsomebody is making up these crazy names up, right?'
āI sat down back in 2016 and I wrote down some names of what I thought would be funny moves to go back at Mauro when he called one of these moves [from Japan] and I would say something like, āthereās the Ramen Noodle moonsault.ā ā¦ I was doing it just to play devilās advocate with Mauro ā¦ If I were still doing commentary with Michael Cole or JR, we had the chemistry to where each one of those guys would have known that I was almost making a fool out of myself by claiming like I was acting like I knew what this unbelievable looking move was. Then either Cole or JR would have said āoh King, you know better than thatā ā¦ with Byron and Tom, we donāt have that chemistry yet. We have only been working together for a short time so when I said that, they didnāt even acknowledge it so it kind of went out and they just kept talking and I kept talking. I didnāt think anything about it either.ā
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