Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Fame JBL John Bradshaw Leyfield who is also a former WWE champion and a former three times WWE Tag Team Champion recently talked about his views on wrestling and explained why it should always be a big man’s business.
JBL went through a lot of gimmick changes in WWE before getting the ultimate success. He walked in WWE for quite a long time and at first the promotion considered him mostly as a tag team wrestler. He paired with various other wrestlers and formed tag teams. But the most famous Tag Team he worked in had to be the APA or the Acolytes where he teamed up with former WCW World Heavyweight champion Farooq.
JBL Explains Why He Thinks Wrestling Should Always Be A Big Man’s Business
In 2004 he went through a complete gimmick change and this is the time when he adapted the gimmick of JBL. In a very short amount of time he won the WWE World Championship by defeating Eddie Guerrero at the Great American Bash pay per view event and he had been a pretty dominant champion. He received challenges from the likes of The Undertaker, The Big Show, Booker T and Kurt Angle but he managed to retain the Championship in every occasion.
Finally at WrestleMania 21 he dropped the Championship to John Cena and this marked the beginning of the ultimate push for the 16 times WWE World champion. Bradshaw never got to win the WWE World championship after that and his in ring career did not last long either. In 2020 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Right now he is working as the manager of Baron Corbin on Monday Night RAW.
JBL John Bradshaw Leyfield who is also a former WWE champion and a former three times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke on After The Bell with Corey Graves where he talked about his views on wrestling and explained why it should always be a big man’s business. He said;
“People call us villains or bad guys or heels or whatever they want to call it, but that’s simply not the case. We speak the truth. We speak the truth about what the business is doing. It’s a big guy’s business. I mean, you look at baseball. Baseball had gone down the tubes. Baseball was gonna die after the strike.
“Who came along and saved it? Guys like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds, big guys, big guys came along and saved the sport. That’s exactly what’s going to happen now. I mean, we drew 93,000 people at WrestleMania III, an iconic moment that set us off on this WrestleMania extravaganza that’s lasted and become this huge event as big as the Superbowl in the cities that they’re in because of Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan.
“I mean, there was a reason that guys that were great workers, great wrestlers, weren’t in the main event. I came back for one reason and that’s because Baron Corbin needs to be in the main event because this business needs Baron Corbin.
“Baron Corbin doesn’t need this business. Look, he didn’t start off and have to go through the Indies. He didn’t have to play single A ball. He started off batting cleanup for the Astros. That’s what he started doing. Baron does not need this business. This business needs Baron.”
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