Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer JBL John Bradshaw Layfield who is the former WWE world champion recently talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon. He said McMahon was really kind to him and also explained why McMahon was a great producer.
JBL started his professional wrestling career back in 1992 and he joined WWE in 1995. He had to work really hard for getting success and he had to go through a lot of different gimmicks including the likes of Justin Bradshaw and Blackjack Bradshaw. Finally, he got some success after WWE paired him with the formal leader of the Nation of Domination stable Farooq.
JBL Reveals Vince McMahon Was Really Kind To Him
Together they were famously started to be known as the Acolytes Protection Agency APA. Together they won the WWE Tag Team Championship three times in total. The APA was one of the most famous tag teams of the Attitude Era which itself is the most famous time period in WWE history.
The APA walked on together for quite a long time. After the first brand split of WWE, the promotion tried to push him as a single star under the same gimmick. But it did not work out pretty well. In 2004 he was given a complete gimmick change and this was the time when he was Re packaged as a JBL John Bradshaw Layfield.
On the Great American Bash pay per view event of 2004, he won his only WWE championship. He kept on carrying the Championship until WrestleMania 21 where he dropped it to John Cena. After that he never won the WWE title once again but he he had a mid card run. At WrestleMania 25, he took retirement from in ring action. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2020.
JBL John Bradshaw Layfield who is the former WWE world champion recently spoke to GAWTV where he talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon. He said McMahon was really kind to him and also explained why McMahon was a great producer. He said;
“Vince [McMahon] gets a lot of heat over what he produces, and I loved it. By the way, Vince was never rude to me. Not one time, did not yell at me one time. Jerry Lawler says the same thing. Booker T says the same thing. Now he yelled at Michael Cole and he yelled at some other guys, but I think it was the old guys who had been in the ring for him. He just treated us differently. Even when I made mistakes, he was very kind about it.”
“But I loved him being in my ear because he was very succinct. He’s a great producer. He would tell you just a short little phrase. He wouldn’t tell you a whole paragraph. Usually I’d be one word behind it. I’d just repeat exactly what he said, because he knew what was coming up and he also knew what he was feeding somewhere else.
“So, sometimes he’d feed me something, but he’d [Michael] Cole something different and it made sense after Cole said it. He (Vince) had access to everything. I enjoyed Vince being a producer. A lot of guys, I think it’s fashionable to say they hated it, but I thought he was terrific at it.”
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