Summary

Jimmy Wang Yang said The Undertaker stepped in during his WWE run and told him to stop wearing an entrance jacket with a Confederate flag on the back.

Yang discussed the old "Asian redneck" presentation while speaking with Chris Van Vliet and said he now wishes he had never used that part of the character. According to Yang, Undertaker immediately recognized what the symbol represented and told him to take the jacket off.

The comments fit into a broader run of veterans revisiting choices from earlier eras, much like The Sandman recalling how uncertain his WCW run once felt.

Quote from Jimmy Wang Yang

"The most offensive thing is me wearing the Confederate flag on my back. They said 'Hey, we want you to be an Asian redneck.' Okay, what do you think of? I think of rodeos. I think of NASCAR. I think of Dukes of Hazard and General Lee. I'm like, Oh yeah, I'm an Asian redneck, so I gotta wear the Confederate flag on the back of my vest and go out there. But if anybody knows what that symbolizes, it's God awful, and it's horrible. I wish I hadn't done that. Undertaker is the one that told me. He saw me wearing it, 'Jimmy, take that f*cking sh*t off!' I said I'm playing a character, an Asian redneck. 'That sh*t means some horrible sh*t. Take it off.' All right. Then I take off, and they said, 'Hey, where's your jacket at?' [I replied] 'Undertaker told me to take it off.' Okay."

What Undertaker changed in Jimmy Wang Yang's WWE presentation

Yang's story makes Undertaker's role in that moment pretty clear, he pushed for an immediate change to a piece of presentation that Yang now openly regrets. That adds important context to a gimmick that has long drawn criticism from fans looking back on the Ruthless Aggression era.

It also gives wrestling fans a sharper sense of how locker room influence could affect what made it to television. In this case, Yang said Undertaker's reaction directly led to the jacket being removed.

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Jimmy Wang Yang while speaking with Chris Van Vliet