10 Wrestling Promos That Were Inadvertently Infamous
6. Kings & Queens
Frightening hatred flew down the lens from the eyes of Jerry Lawler into the souls of the WWE audience as he ripped into Goldust ahead of a King Of The Ring 1997 qualifier on Monday Night Raw. Superlative performer Lawler was hopefully just entering god-level performance territory - it's rather heartbreaking to consider an alternative.
Referring to 'The Bizarre One' first as "our sissy friend", he moved up the gears so fast he drove his Batmobile into a stonewall, referring to Goldust as a "flaming f*g" and his wife Terri Runnels as "the biggest gold-digger in Georgia". He wasn't done, dishing out a scathing closing line on the pair's only daughter - "[Dakota] should have been called Target, because I heard everybody in Atlanta had a shot at it".
Goldust's babyface turn had opened the door up for heels such as Lawler to grasp at the low hanging fruit of the gimmick, but it makes shocking viewing on the WWE Network today considering the company's careful public relations management. It remains one of the most caustic promos in the show's history, with the language regrettable then, let alone over 20 years later.