Jerry Lawler On If He And Jim Ross Fell Asleep During The Raw 25 Broadcast

The big Monday Night Raw 25th anniversary show has come and gone, and one of the most iconic commentary teams in wrestling history reunited for the show when Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler teamed up to call the action at the Manhattan Center.

But a good portion of the show took place from the Barclays Center, so there was downtime for the people involved in the Manhattan Center portion of the show.

During the broadcast a picture of Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler started making the rounds online, and some thought that it looked like JR and Lawler were sleeping in the photo.

Ross spoke out saying that they were not sleeping, and on a recent episode of his podcast, Dinner With The King, Jerry Lawler also set the record straight on the now infamous photo.

“Our monitors were small and they were down at the lower part of the desk. This picture was taken during a commercial break. The headsets were a little different. I don’t know what the deal was with the chairs, but they were not comfortable, they were not the chairs that were ordinarily used. So during the show, while we were doing the commentary, in order to see the monitor right, I would have to sit up straight and almost lean forward to be able to watch the monitor.”

“So then, when a commercial break came, I would take that opportunity to kind of sit back and really, just sort of stretch my back. JR was texting. I don’t know how he does it. JR multitasks. He’ll be texting while he’s doing the broadcast, so that’s what he was doing. Throughout the entire show, he did a lot of texting or maybe tweeting. I did a little bit myself.”

“But anyway, somebody catches that one particular shot and then they put it out on the internet and man, it was all over the place… I know JR was really sensitive to it. It upset JR because that just wasn’t the case. I mean, good gosh, nobody went to sleep during the broadcast of the 25th anniversary of Monday Night Raw.”