Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield aka JBL who is a former WWE world champion recently talked about his friendship with the late great professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero.
WWE Championship run of JBL is considered as one of the most epic WWE Championship run in the history of the promotion. It lasted for two hundred and eighty days about this reign he defeated some of the biggest names in sports entertainment including the likes of the Undertaker, The Big Show, Booker T, Kurt Angle and of course Eddie Guerrero. This is considered as one of the best heel runs as a WWE Champion in the history of the promotion.
JBL Looks Back At His Friendship With Eddie Guerrero
Before winning the Championship in 2004, JBL was mostly known as Bradshaw and he was more of a tag team wrestler. By this time he received a gimmick change and got the chance to face Eddie Guerrero for the WWE championship at the Great American Bash pay per view event of 2004. It was a Texas Bull Rope match which Bradshaw won to get his first WWE World Championship and that was the beginning of the epic rain of WWE Hall of Famer.
Bradshaw drop the WWE title at WrestleMania 21 at against John Cena and this match is very important since it marked the emersion of John Cena. And the the end of Bradshaw’s epic WWE Championship reign could not be booked in any better way.
He gave a number of tries to win the title back against John Cena but he failed. After losing the title he could never win the WWE championship again and he decided to retire from Professional wrestling in 2006. But he did continue his services as a commentator for quite a long time.
John Bradshaw Layfield aka JBL who is a former WWE world champion recently spoke to Christy Olson on the AdFreeShows.com where he talked about his friendship with the late great professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eddie Guerrero. He said;
“Eddie would call me all times of the day and night and give me ideas for promos. He said to tell them, ‘My ancestors came over here in a boat, not an inner tube. Eddie, you’re going to get me killed.’ Sometimes we would be in the ring and I would be cutting a promo. He would send into the referee some phrase he would want me to say, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English.
“Especially the southwest in front of huge Latino audiences, I would always say it and people would get so furious. That was all Eddie. Eddie really liked the JBL character. Eddie was a groomsman in my wedding. I did part of the eulogy at his funeral. I wish he was still here today. We were close friends. He really took pride in getting JBL over.
“If JBL had anybody else other than Eddie, it probably would have been a one off at The Staples Center. I don’t think JBL would have been around another PPV. I think I probably would have retired, probably within a few months, but because of Eddie, he made JBL, and then I had a pretty good run with it.”
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