Jerry Lawler Reveals When WWE Offered Him RAW Announcer Job

WWE RAW will soon have Vic Joseph, Dio Maddin, and Jerry Lawler on commentary. It is a big surprise to have Lawler back on the announce booth on a weekly basis and he didn’t see it coming either.

CommercialAppeal spoke to Jerry Lawler where he revealed when he got the call to offer him a new position in WWE. It is interesting how The King didn’t mention anything about the new job being temporary.

“I got a call about it Tuesday morning from Kevin Dunn. He said, ‘I’ve got a proposition for you. It may be good news, and it may be bad news.’ He knows I don’t like to travel a whole lot anymore, so that was the bad part. I said, ‘What’s the good part?’ He said, ‘We want you back on RAW.’ He told me it’s for however long I want to do it, so that sealed the deal.”

“It was Paul (Heyman’s) idea to put Vic and Dio on RAW. Apparently, what I was told, Vince (McMahon) said, ‘You can’t throw these two new, young guys on our flagship show. Call King.’ That’s how it happened.”

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We’ll have to see how this new RAW announce team does. Paul Heyman had a lot to do with putting this new crew together and they will begin to provide the soundtrack for WWE RAW next week.