Professional wrestling Legend and WWE Hall of Famer JBL John Bradshaw Leyfield who is a former WWE World champion recently discussed the contribution of late great Eddie Guerrero in his career. He explained how he helped him building his JBL character.
JBL mostly worked as a team wrestler at the beginning of his WWE career. He earned some tag team success with a number of golds throughout his Tag Team career in WWE. His team with Farooq was pretty famous as the APA aka Acolytes Protection Agency and throughout the Attitude Era they were one of the prime tag teams of the promotion.
JBL Discusses The Contribution Of Eddie Guerrero In His Career
In 2004 he got a change in character and he started playing the role of a millionaire. A lot of fans believed that he is character was pretty similar to the Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase. After getting the character change, he shockingly won the WWE championship at the Great American Bash pay per view event of 2004 by defeating Eddie Guerrero.
He had been a very dominant champion in WWE as he carried the title till WrestleMania 21 and finally dropped the title to John Cena. After dropping the WWE championship he could never win the title back but his reign will always be rememberd as one of the best heel World Championship Runs in WWE history. In 2020 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
JBL John Bradshaw Leyfield who is a former WWE World champion recently spoke to Alistair McGeorge of MetroUK where he discussed the contribution of late great Eddie Guerrero in his career. He explained how he helped him building his JBL character. He said;
“Eddie and I, we would’ve traveled together, probably, if we hadn’t been competitors against each other. Several times we’d go out to dinner, I was going through some issues in my life at the time – nobody knew it, I’m not one to tell people about that. Eddie came up to me, ‘Hey, something’s bothering you. I want to talk to you.’ I thought that was really cool, that was really observant of Eddie, and he did that to everybody. He was a very unique person.
“I think it’s rare in life. Not many people care that much about the world that they’re observing other people and other people’s behaviors. You’re wrapped up in your own stuff, you’re wrapped up in your own travel, you’re wrapped up in your own world.
“I don’t think it’s that common in life for people to be able to notice that around them, to notice your neighbors having some issue – and to not only notice, to go over and talk to them. Eddie took me out to dinner that night, he goes, ‘I wanna take you out for dinner.’ I didn’t wanna share burdens or problems with anybody. It was really cool. I think that’s incredibly rare, but not just in this business, in life.”
“There were some nerves, but remember I was older at the time, I’d been around a long time. So, the nerves weren’t as bad as the fact that I had a lot of hesitation over whether it would work or not. I think Big Show had got hurt, Kurt Angle was hurt, Brock had left the company. It was just the matter of filling a need. I knew it was a one-off if it didn’t go well, and that’s what I was concerned about the most.”
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