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>the King of Memphis, readily established as a Southern man with good taste in fine women
That's how he got away with it.
Calling people a sissy, calling them queer and fags, that's just normal verbiage in his territory.
Also bear in mind the wrestling audience loved shit like that since they spoke that way themselves, especially in the late 90s where people were saying edgy shit just to be edgy.