What is your opinion on John Bradshaw Layfield?
 

Folks over at SquaredCircle and Twitter are having a field day since JBL's bullying is a "hot topic" once again with respect to Mauro's health and Justin Roberts' new book.

What are your thoughts on the self proclaimed "Wrestling God" and the longest reigning WWE Champion in Smackdown history?

Dudes a knob, his name keeps coming up as a guy who picks on the little dudes.

Seems from the outside he sees himself as some sort of locker room enforcer but you stack up him picking on Justin Roberts vs. Taker taping his fists to ensure Michaels does the right thing at Mania... Ones a bad ass locker room enforcer, the others a guy picking on someone who has no chance of fighting back physically or by backstage pull.

He has always been a bully, in the "old days" it was harder for the stories to be spread, it will be interesting to see how this plays out once social media full starts attacking JBL's past. From a personal standpoint I doubt he gives a shit but financially and reputation wise thiscould bite him in the ass HARD.

don't think it will but hope it does. He's a made guy.

If this is the end of it than nothing will happen but if the interest increases this is very bad PR for the WWE

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If only he'd had a tag partner who would disappear for a bit only to re-appear randomly on Heat and feud briefly with Santino Marella, that would be the perfect theme for said person.

Pretty much this. I've yet to hear any stories of JBL picking on a guy like Brock Lesnar (when he was a rookie).

Do WWE still promote that whole "Be a Star" thing?

And he blocked me on Twitter.

I think he is a scumbag piece of shit. He seems like a parody of a dumb meathead 80s movie villain.

The greatest wrestler ever and my all time favourite. Has been since the formation of the Acolytes

People are pussies now

fuck the guy, if the harassment was at least funny i wouldn't think he's such a dipshit.

I think there's not much someone like Justin Roberts can do.

Mauro Ranallo is bi polar, calling him a pussy is unfair.

Have a laugh and rib them back. Life isnt that serious

Intimidation goes a long way when you are 6'4+ and weigh 275+ lbs.
Fight back and have your ass kicked hard?

These stories make me so angry. There is no reason to treat people with such negativity, to walk around through life thinking of ways to make people feel uncomfortable or even miserable about being in any given environment. He deserves the worst that life will give him. The failing of his fat body, getting stranded on some giant cliff he wants to climb, stumbling over his own feet walking down the ramp and busting out all of his teeth on the ground.... Well I guess me wishing ill on him is the same mindset he has when it comes to his victims. I'll relent on that. All I can say is that when life deals him a shitty hand, I won't feel bad.

Remember when he bullied Joey Styles and Styles knocked him on his ass and gave him a black eye? lol Good times. I wish there was videotape of that.

He seems like a guy that would sleep on his back and snore loudly. Break into his hotel room and put a knife in his mouth while he's sleeping. Wake him up slowly so he doesn't move much. Whisper various things into his ear about how it would be a shame if he got his tongue cut off and how this hotel doesn't even have security cameras. Tell him to open his mouth wider every 30 seconds. If you really want to drive it home how serious you are, jerk off onto his face. Use the fear as an aphrodisiac. He's too much of a homophobe to report this and tell everyone he got jerked off on.

The more you know. :y::wave:

Always been a fan JBL. Could care less if he likes to pick on nerds.

All of the above. Guys are pussies now but he is also a bully. He was a very mediocre performer so I don't get how he took the role of enforcer. Sounds like a complete prick

No room for a guy like JBL in the business and it sounds like a ton of workers feel the same way. I hope WWE does the right thing, because i cant stand listening to him, knowing how much of a scumbag he really is.

I would like to see you people stand up to JBL. Especially when the type of behavior is probably encouraged by other people laughing.

I'd stab him in the face and piss on his chest

I mean ideally you do what Joey Styles did which was amazing. And a lot of wrestling is based on having straight cahonas.

But Justin Roberts is a tiny man. I honestly just feel bad for him.

Same with Ranallo, he's a professional guy who loved wrestling but wrestling is too hard for a lot of people.



Though having played rugby, I "get" Bradshaw, but it's a professional environment. I can't help but feel bad for Roberts. And Bradshaw is obviously a prick. But I get what you mean by people being pussies. And even CyNick does make a half decent point about "there's a chance he was a big dipshit" if the whole locker room was hazing him. It's harsh but true.

But at the same time if all the weird rapey shenanigans JBL has pulled (allegedly) lead me to wondering about him. At the end of the day, he's a big scary fucking Texan and a generally powerful man. He takes liberties and he gets off on it.

I don't think he's the worst person in the world, but he is a scummy fucker, and a relic in this day and age. Wrestling needs passionate people like Ranallo. They don't need shitty commentators who bully people (Who knows if there's any actual truth in Bradshaw v Ranallo).

Latent bisexual bully.

None of the people who I know who know him have a bad word to say about the guy.

For me personally, he's an entertaining TV character and given me some excellent financial advice. So I got only love for him.

Jim Cornette has defended him recently. But there is a relatively good reason for this. He is gonna say "Mr. Cornette" when Jim is booking him. Bullies don't punch up. If Jimmy was a rookie, he would have been fucked with.

JBL wouldn't mess with people who had power, or could wreck him. There's a reason why he won't say anything bad or try anything with a Nakamura or a Lesnar.

Better than Drago?

Didn't Joey Styles punch him?

This, sorta. I do think some of the instances were probably guys just getting ribbed and not being able to handle it well, but I'm not gonna say JBL probably didn't do some really openly fucked up stuff under the guise of "ribbing." Dude is bigger than most and a guy that's been around forever so he probably thinks he can do things and get away with them, which is a little fucked up.

Ok. Answered my q before I asked.

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This is a pretty thought-out scenario.

Have you heard the story about what he did to Brian Christopher?

Jesus, Franky :lol: :wtf:

Some of us think faster than others.

You laughed (and secretly filed it away for future reference).

3 but some 2.

Why?

Don't recall any of that crap on mania.

In 2017 its a minority opinion but i dont have any compassion for beta males. Man up, bullies can only exist if you're weak.

Decent wrestler overall and was pretty good during his first run as a commentary. Really shouldn't have been brought back considering he's been more terrible than good with this current run as a commentator.

In terms of being a bully, he's just someone who never managed to change with the times and WWE shares the blame for letting this stuff still happen.

Because I asked him some tough questions while being polite.

Also, Johnny Mundo confirmed that Bradshaw asked him to steal Roberts' passport.

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He seems like a piece of shit. He is good at the character he plays on tv but I usually don't like his commentary that much. JBL/Graves could be good if JBL didn't go on his weird rants.


I would be fine with WWE firing him because of all this. I think a nice plus is that he definitely is a relic of the past and not the future. People will always play pranks - but JBL seems like he always went past a 'prank' from reading all the stuff he's done/said to people. I can't imagine the current crop of locker room leaders having much interest in "sociopathic torture", doesn't really seem like something AJ Styles, KO, Samoa Joe, Balor, Nakamura, Reigns, Rollins, Brock Lesnar, The Miz, Kofi Kingston, etc. would spend much time on. I think they are more likely to play video games than "bully" tbh.

Orton shitting in that diva's bag is probably the last thing someone from the Orton/Jericho/Cena generation did that would really be "too far" that we've heard about, and that was over a decade ago.


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lol Justin Roberts is a tiny man, Bradshaw would kill him. I envision a form of Spider and Tommy from Goodfellas.

DAMN!

Buncha snowflakes

All of you are just afraid to break into JBL'S room and jerk off on his face.

Slik just copied Kenton Lane ' s post from the front page. Slik really losing spammy votes due to the blatant plagiarism.

......or maybe it was the other way around.....That Kenton Lane is a monster. A veritable creature of the night.

What a great man and humanitarian

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New, young guys (who are physically weaker than a 6'6 300 pound wrestler) probably are afraid of retaliating because they don't want to lose their job since JBL was known to be very close with McMahon. In a lot of cases, you have to just put up with the torment or potentially risk losing your "dream job" in WWE.

In some new interview, John Morrison says he was only able to finally stand up to JBL's bullying after he was a big established star in WWE.

What? No, dude. Two wrongs don't make a right. As difficult as it is, I try to do as I believe I should and turn the other cheek when I feel as though I have been wronged.

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Instead of just taking the bullying, they should hire the A Team to make JBL see the error of his ways.

Right, and they will do it by jerking off on his face all at the same time.

i dunno feel like im talking to people whove never been in any locker ever. This starts as hazing. Always. One guy is a spazz about instead of being cool about it (like every guy in the locker room that isnt currently being ribbed went through prior) and then it just escalates because they're weakness is exposed. Im good with it. If you cant thrive in that kind of environment thats unfortunate. Put your notice in, it isnt going to change.

Not feeling sorry for guys with no spine. Itll change in time though, there will only be beta males left in 20 years or so.

So, if you were in a foreign country and one of your teammates/colleagues stole your passport that's just a good ol' ribbing, right?

Haha thats pretty good. Did JBL do that? Id have been so hot.

Alright, Ill be serious for a minute.....you want to use "ribbing" or "light hazing" on your team or in your organization? It has to make the place better. If Vince thinks it makes WWE better, welp, he's the boss I guess. Not sure that tip toeing the line on multiple hostile work environment lawsuits is a good idea and that doing so makes the organization better but that's just me.

Look at the "hazing" the Chicago Cubs do with their players and how it affected the culture of the organization. That's what it should look like. Notice the difference. The Cubs make it visible and everyone does it and has fun with it where Vince/JBL isolate people and subject only that person to whatever they deem "fun" and keep it to themselves. Totally opposite ways of going about a similar practice with, predictably, different results.

I've been in a locker room. And hazing definitely made me stronger. I'm just empathetic and sensitive.



......... or a bitch I guess.

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Sorry couldn't resist.

I remember there was this nasty guy Travis who could totally kick my ass. First year I played with him I was so scared of him and he treated me like shit. Nothing too bad, but LOL the whole team called me "freak" and "fat shady" and I never saw the field.

When 2 years later came and we were on the same team again, I still had to earn his respect but I just started telling him I would skull fuck him when he was being a dickhole. And just played decent rugby, and we were essentially equals by the end.

I get where you're coming from. But Beta's gotta make a living too. Plus, JBL is a dickhead.

I think they need to make it into a storyline and have Dr. Shelby counsel him live on Raw and try to find out why he does the things he does. That should make part of that 3 hours fly by.

Also, good excuse to bring back Dr. Shelby.

That...would be amazing. I bet you JBL would actually be fun again.

Frank Drebin stole my passport and I had to sneak across the border to Canada (*sneaky finger thingie*)

So he is a big hypocrite.

It was f'n funny dude. Get over it.

I have been in many locker rooms and yes there are guys who like amping up other guys by light hazing and whatnot but will go to war for that guy he is picking on. Kind of like a big brother situation, typically a team building scenario. From the sounds of itJBL is just a bully. He doesn't seem to bring the locker room together he seems to seperate it. Huge difference between what teams do and what JBL does, if you can't see thwt, you are probably a bully yourself.

Funny though because Destor does not come across as such. Just a contrarian tbh.

Didn't Steve Blackman lay out JBL back in the day after he tried to fuck with him? Jesus, at least do your homework if you decide to break in some of the new pledges :lol:

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Stealing a guy's passport (or getting someone else to do it) while you're on a trip to a foreign country isn't even bullying. It's just being a dickhead.

I'll admit that this idea fills me with horror.

Just because something was traditional doesn't make it right. Jim Crow was traditional until Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat.

It's about evolution. It's not survival of the fittest it's survival of the smartest. JBL is a relic and it's time for him to be fired like Bill DeMot was.

And and entire generation agrees with you. I think what we have is worse than what we had. You call it evolved i call devolved.

A culling is inevitable.

It would be awesome if it started with wrestling.

Meltzer is on fire as of late. He has taken this issue personally.

Yep, he has consistently put over Mauro as top announcer in the game for years even before he hit it big.

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JBL will be gone by the end of the month. All it takes is one sponsor to get cold feet.

Maybe.

Not sure. Vince loves him.

"You need to go away for a bit Pal, but here's 5 million dollars to tide you over" really that simple.

After all the stuff came out about Demott, what was the excuse given for letting him go?

Guessing his methods weren't considered......humorous....?

Yeah either Mattel or one of the new sponsors NBC/USA Network brought in would be enough to sway the decision to get rid of JBL.

Besides the Benoit incident, Mattel played a big role in why the WWE pushed to become PG during the mid-2000s.


None I think. They just let him save some face by resigning instead of getting fired.

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Triple H had sex with a corpse.

Or Kane.

Well, I mean 6 years ago at the end of April/start of May we got rid of Bin Laden, so...

So they say...

So John Cena said. Are you doubting John Cena?



He also said it in Shisen's hometown of Tampa, FL. Further PROOF that it did happen! USA#1!!!!!!

None of this means a person can't be a piece of shit. You can be a humanitarian AND a dickhead. Not mutually exclusive.

Funny how, by and large, there are folks defending this dude, but Bill Demott is just an irredeemable asshole merely because people remember Bradshaw's career way more fondly.

To be clear, I think they're both turds.

There's a difference between hazing and straight up bullying in the same way there's a difference in being mutually "playful" and sexual assault. One is about knowing your audience, so to speak, and the other is a one way street about exerting your will. By the sounds of things, Bradshaw falls into the latter category. And no, I'm not saying "JBL is a rapist", so anyone looking to retort to that can miss me with that shit before you even start; you can see the logical connection to what I was saying for the message there and not the words used.

There's only so much "he's just an old school guy/boys will be boys" can cushion. There are such things as personal boundaries.

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Rene has always been sour about his experience in the WWE. Wasn't surprised when he had something negative to say about JBL.

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In 20 years or so, we'll all be de-evolved into

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anyway. None of this matters. :'(

Somebody who has a mental illness is sick not weak

And I am okay, but my watch sick, my drop beat? My glow sick and knot thick?

This is adorable considering that Titus doesn't have the best verbal skills.

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weak
wēk
adjective

1. lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; lacking physical strength and energy.

"she was recovering from the flu and was very weak"

synonyms: frail, feeble, delicate, fragile;

2. liable to break or give way under pressure; easily damaged

meh. IMO JBL and Vince are both snakes. But that's not anything anybody didn't already know.

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