{"id":107378,"date":"2022-01-01T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=107378"},"modified":"2022-01-01T06:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T11:38:32","slug":"remembering-betty-white-in-the-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/01\/01\/remembering-betty-white-in-the-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Betty White in The WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and actress <strong>Betty White<\/strong> passed away on December 31, just weeks away from what would have been her 100<sup>th<\/sup> birthday on January 17, 2022. Her long career in entertainment began in the 1940s, in radio, and then crossed over to television and film. Her iconic roles in the television sitcoms \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show\u201d and \u201cThe Golden Girls\u201d cemented her place in pop culture. White\u2019s gimmick was a study in contrasts: her outwardly prim and wholesome exterior belied her mastery of the double entendre. Well into her 90s, White continued to hold her place in the zeitgeist, with her self-deprecating humor about aging and \u2018forever young\u2019 antics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The legend Betty White has died at 99.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ll never forget when she co-hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a> Raw and was ready to fight everyone \ud83e\udd72 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lKwOjPrdsL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lKwOjPrdsL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1477012702509899780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is, in fact, how she found her way to <em>World Wrestling Entertainment <\/em>in 2014. She joined WWE\u2019s cavalcade of celebrity guest hosts of <em>Monday Night Raw <\/em>while promoting season 3 of her show \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betty_White%27s_Off_Their_Rockers\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Off Their Rockers<\/a>\u201d. White mixed it up with prominent WWE Superstars of the era, such as the <strong>Bella Twins, <\/strong>and shared tea with <strong>The New Age Outlaws.\u00a0<\/strong>In a highlight of her appearance, White promised to kick some ass, much to the adoration of the live crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Long before her Raw guest appearance, however, White had a fan in <strong>New Day<\/strong> member, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/21\/xavier-woods-king-of-the-ring\/\" target=\"_self\">current <\/a><em>King of the Ring, <\/em><strong>Xavier Woods. <\/strong>Woods has made no secret of his ardent appreciation of \u201cThe Golden Girls\u201d, over the years. \u00a0In a November 2021 appearance on the podcast <em>Out of Character With Ryan Satin, <\/em>Woods professed that if he ever got his own theme music as a singles performer he would want to incorporate the legendary \u201cGolden Girls\u201d theme. In December 2021, Woods cheekily implied on social media that he requested time off from WWE to attend Golden-Con, which is precisely as its name implies: a \u201cGolden Girls\u201d fan convention.<\/p>\n<p>Woods reacted on Twitter to the news of White\u2019s death with a characteristically open heart on Twitter, writing, \u201cI hope that the people who were lucky enough to be close to her are doing alright. Call your loved ones and let them know what they mean to you\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hope that the people who were lucky enough to be close to her are doing alright. Call your loved ones and let them know what they mean to you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BettyWhite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BettyWhite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Austin Creed (@AustinCreedWins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustinCreedWins\/status\/1476998044059160581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BettyWhite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BettyWhite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KcK6CaeDkv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/KcK6CaeDkv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWEonFOX\/status\/1476998953472245762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really 2021\u2026 really \u2026 \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2dRIP Betty White \ud83d\udda4<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lexi (Kaufman) Cabrera (@AlexaBliss_WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexaBliss_WWE\/status\/1476997611244568577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian and actress Betty White passed away on December 31, just weeks away from what would have been her 100th birthday on January 17, 2022. Her long career in entertainment began in the 1940s, in radio, and then crossed over to television and film. Her iconic roles in the television sitcoms \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3715,"featured_media":107382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[8218,907,390,6447,223,551],"class_list":["post-107378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-betty-white","tag-new-age-outlaws","tag-new-day","tag-the-bella-twins","tag-the-new-day","tag-xavier-woods"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}