Jerry Lawler Defends a Joke He Made About Nia Jax

In the debut episode of Jerry Lawler’s new podcast, “Dinner With The King,” he talked about a joke he made about Nia Jax on the “Raw Talk” show after WWE Fastlane this past Sunday that he was apparently getting a lot of backlash for on Twitter.

Transcript via Cageside Seats:

“I was talking about the fact that Nia Jax is a big girl, I don’t know any other way to say it. She’s big, she’s like Big Show big compared to the other females on the roster. And I just said ‘you know, Nia Jax is big. She’s so big she got hit by a car the other day and it took three surgeons to remove it.’ That’s an old Rodney Dangerfield joke. It wasn’t anything meant that was saying she was fat. Some people came on Twitter and said ‘oh, King making fat jokes about Nia Jax.’ Well, I never said the word ‘fat.’ I don’t think she’s fat. She is big, and if you don’t think she’s big go stand next to her. So people are upset saying I was making fat jokes. Anybody who uses the word ‘fat’ that’s on them, because I didn’t.

“That’s the thing with Twitter, that’s the thing with social media: You’re not going to be able to please everybody and everybody’s got a way now to whine and complain if they say something that they even think they don’t agree with. I take that with a grain of salt and then I block ’em.”