5 Times Foul-Mouthed Announcers Dropped The F-Bomb

3. Jerry Lawler

A slight cheat here, but worthy of mention all the same for the sheer horror on show. Given scant seconds to promote his upcoming contest, Jerry Lawler somehow managed to offer up enough grim takes to embed the monologue in wrestling infamy.

The regular announcer's F-Bomb came from the internal '80s performer within him, ditching his headset to get back in the ring one night. The word may have had had a few more letters but it was substantially more offensive. Unfiltered hatred shot down the lens from the laser-focused eyes of 'The King' as he ripped into Goldust ahead of a King of the Ring qualifier on a May 1997 edition of Monday Night Raw.

Referring to 'The Bizarre One' first as a "sissy friend", he rapidly moved up the gears, referring to him as a "flaming f*g". As the audience gasped, he moved on to Dustin's wife Terri Runnels, calling her "the biggest gold-digger in Georgia" before delivering his scathing closer on the pair's only daughter - "[Dakota] should have been called Target, because I heard everybody in Atlanta had a shot at it".

It remains one of the most uncomfortably caustic promos in the show's history, with the language and tone regrettable then, let alone over 20 years later.

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