 What's good Josh boy Ross back again with another video, so I'm gonna check out why JBL Bradshaw is one of the most hated men in wrestling now I know on on I guess television purposes like on camera on the camera side of things what we saw His character become his pretty much this Quote on quote Texan who had some I guess you can say Old-school ways of thinking of how he viewed certain people in certain class statuses You know, it was a really good heel character considering Who he would be feuding with at the time, but he also had some backstage Heat as well and people weren't a big fan of JBL backstage So I'm pretty sure he's gonna talk about this. This is by a stunned by wrestling man He has the most hated series, so I'm definitely looking forward to seeing what he talks about this But yeah, he was definitely not loved by many of those In the locker room as well as the fans didn't like his character as well But that's because he was a good heel So we're gonna check out this video man. Appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel, man Let's get right into this one Fans will probably Remember John Bradshaw layfield for one of his runs in wwe as Bradshaw He tagged teamed with Farouk in the Attitude era as the Acolytes also known as the APA Later during the ruthless aggression era Bradshaw would morph into a totally different character That of JBL and would main event the Smackdown brand and become Wwe champion Bradshaw started his sporting career in football having signed with the Los Angeles Raiders But he was released before the 1990 season began by 1992 Bradshaw had transitioned to pro-wrestling The global wrestling federation based in Texas Bradshaw had a full and varied career Utilizing and entertaining roughneck stiff Texan style in the ring no matter which persona he was inhabiting I'm gonna be honest with you that clothes line. It's just But he's laying it in he's not holding back on that clothes line But his clothes line from hell. It literally was from hell It would retire from full-time wrestling in 2009 to pursue outside interests Later returning to the company in a commentary and managerial role However throughout Bradshaw's career there have been many reports of him attacking other personnel backstage Even viewers watching at home weren't safe with Bradshaw providing some of the worst commentary in Wwe history in this video We will take a closer look at exactly why John Bradshaw layfield is one of the most hated men in wrestling Hey, we all know well for those who don't know but a lot of us know his issues with Mauro Ronaldo and How he pretty much bullied the guy, you know, I'm saying and you know He definitely caused some potential, you know issues with Mauro, you know, and and other other instances as well behind the scenes, so There is one allegation that arises again and again from people who have been around Bradshaw backstage in Wwe And that is one of bullying and intimidation many Wwe employees have either reported witnessing Bradshaw throwing his weight around backstage or say that they Themselves have been the target of his harassment the list of former and current Wwe personnel that have come forward with these Allegations is long, but they each have their own story to tell ECW legend the blue meanie says that he felt the full force of Bradshaw's fists in the most public way possible television in front of millions of fans at the ECW tribute show one night stand in 2005 Bradshaw hit the blue meanie so hard that he punched open the staples that he'd had Inserted into his head the night before causing blood to pour out of the wound once again Later the blue meanie posted on his myspace page It's no secret that Bradshaw never liked me from my first day in Wwe to my last Bradshaw's stiff punches to the blue meanie's head wasn't an accident and he even considered filing a lawsuit against him In the days after the attack the blue meanie would eventually back off on the lawsuit However, he would still get a measure of revenge Wwe decided to capitalise on the animosity between the men and booked them in a match meanies Long-time tag team partner Stevie Richards clattered Bradshaw with a savage chair shot Which was a receipt for his friend's treatment of the exact reason that Bradshaw that was a that was a real receipt Oh man that receipt but That man, that's the type of receipt that will give you the case of the CTE Very quickly. Whoo. Sure beat up the meanie in the first place is unclear Some say that meanie had been writing bad words about Bradshaw on the internet while Bradshaw himself in an interview with Wwe.com said the incident with meanie had nothing to do with any old heat I don't even know the guy. I couldn't care less about the fat little kid for other alleged Bradshaw's bullying was completely unprovoked and they felt it wasn't possible to fight back It seems more cruel to pick on non-wrestlers as Bradshaw Allegedly has done on multiple occasions. Not even announcers referees or women were safe Charles Robinson and Billy Silverman came over from the rival Organization to work as referees in the WWF Silverman and Robinson in particular became whipping boys for the bullies According to Silverman, there were many abuses with one of the worst occasions being when Robinson was held down in Stripped before being bound with tape and gagged Robinson was then attached to a cart and wheeled around the arena backstage naked for everyone to laugh at Silverman also alleged that Bradshaw threatened him with violence if he didn't carry large amounts of his liquor Across the Canadian border for him when Silverman quit his job with the WWF He specifically cited Bradshaw's behavior towards him as the main reason Fingernancer Justin Roberts worked for WWE for 12 years He released a book after it finished with the company entitled best seat in the house where he gives a first-hand account of the bullying and Harassment he faced during his time in the company Robert stated that Bradshaw Repeatedly told him to go and kill himself each time they came into contact and referred to Roberts as dipshit and numb nuts Roberts also relayed a story in which he had his passport stolen on a tour of the UK Meaning he couldn't fly home with the rest of the crew and had to visit the US Embassy in London to get the situation Sorted out Justin Roberts didn't name Bradshaw in the book He chose to keep him anonymous instead John Morrison confirmed that it was him in an interview He said that Bradshaw had asked him and his tag team partner at the time Joey Mercury to steal Robert's passport for him, but they both refused to do it in a long-deleted tweet Bradshaw refuted the claim that it was he who took the passport from Roberts saying I didn't take Justin Roberts passport Could have been anyone. He was hated by the whole crew. He's an idiot Dave Meltzer reported in his newsletter an incident where Bradshaw went after a non-wrestler Member of staff who had taken time off from wwe to look after a parent who was dying at the Hey, man JBL would have to see me They is You can only get so many times of disrespect to me I don't even do nothing to you now. You just got to see me, bro Like you just gonna have to see me. I don't care who you are. You just gonna have to see me, bro And I ain't gonna take no too kindly to you telling me to go, you know Can't really say it, but you know, I'm not gonna take too kindly to certain things being said You have to see me suppose I don't it's I'll say this take this if you will there's not one job in this world that's worth Your self-respect. I don't care if they're paying you millions, bro. I Get it that money look good, but your self-respect You got to keep that because at the end of the day you gonna start hating yourself for taking the good money But to deal with the BS JBL we have to see me bro. He would have definitely had He probably would have to retire early because my boy They would have just been random attacks, which still chairs. I Don't know why he got attacked. Who knows Vince Bradshaw reportedly abused this individual for taking time off under the circumstances to look after that parents The target of the abuse was speculated to be Lillian Garcia. The ring Garcia was reportedly reduced to tears backstage after the tirade from Bradshaw Bradshaw had Reportedly also previously dumped a bucket of ice water over Lillian Garcia's head. He JBL you want to know how he was a good heel because he was that wasn't him acting that was him being himself That's why he worked as a hill because he's a piece of garbage He was a piece. I don't know if he is like that now, but back then he was a piece of garbage So that's why I worked for him to portray being a piece of garbage human being while she was asleep as a rib Pro wrestling has always had a culture of ribbing and prank playing the question is when does ribbing become? Simply making someone else's life on the road a total misery. Yeah In Jeff and Matt Hardy's book they wrote about one of their early encounters with Bradshaw They wrote all right then Bradshaw said I'm going to give you boys a little assignment I want you to buy two six packs of beer on the drive home I want you to drink them and throw the bottles at road signs Okay, I said even though I was pretty sure we weren't going to do it the next day We were in charlotte Bradshaw pulled me aside and said his ardy your mission was fairly simple. Were you successful? What's that? Did you get the beers and throw them at road signs? No, man, we didn't we don't drink all we had to do was lie We should have lied it would have been a lot easier Bradshaw was pissed off in the worst way for the next few weeks We'd say hello to him and he'd just say go to hell We'd go to shake his hand and he would look at us not extending his hand go to hell air match was next So he went to the ring and wrestled and when we came back their bags had disappeared their clothes their money Their credit cards everything the room was completely empty Then Bradshaw came walking in and said what's wrong guys in his book adam copeland Hell no bro bro No, man. Hey me and my brother. We would just start jumping you bro We would have had a tlc match backstage and we would have put you through a flaming table, bro So we got our stuff back. Ain't no way What type of dumb request is that but we don't drink like about just I'm getting upset like I was there No, bro, we would have had a tlc match, bro It would have been a two on one tlc handicap match and I promise you jbl I would have just if you don't find what our shit is We'll make you find my boy On edge edge wrote about a time early in his wwf career where he was crunched upon by Bradshaw while naked in the showers after a match The light shining into the shower was suddenly blocked out I looked over to see Bradshaw standing there in his fault k-boy wrestling garb I went back to soaping myself up until I felt a large calloused hand placed on my tush I knew both of my hands were in front of me and I had a sinking suspicion I knew what crazy Texan was lathering my ass In an interview René Dupree described Bradshaw's presence backstage and some of his tactics Go watch the movie Dazed and Confused It has a character played by Ben Affleck who basically flunked himself out of high school for the sole purpose That he can come back and haze the young kids coming from junior high and hit them with the stick That's the best description I can give of Bradshaw He never personally does anything But he gets like people under him like the military a lower ranking person to do his dirty work for him That sounds about right Dupree then used in wwe at the age of 19 and he says that he was subject to regular abuse from Bradshaw In a shoot interview. He said he's a piece of He's a racist. He used the term every time I walked into the locker room Steve Blackman has always been considered a genuine badass the kind of wrestler who could make you his Bitch if he really wanted to surprising then the Bradshaw took a pop at him Bob Holly relayed the story in his book The Hardcore Truth Steve and I were waiting around when Bradshaw came over It was an early morning flight and John was still drunk from the night before he started patting Steve's ass Steve said John. I don't play that Knock it off. John patted him again and again Steve was getting brutally pissed. He told him John next time you do that I'm gonna knock your Heath's ass. So of course John did it again Steve whipped around and backhanded Bradshaw popping in with jabs in the face John started swinging and missing and his head was snapping back with each of Steve's jabs Steve stepped back planning to kick Bradshaw's knees out But he got his leg caught in a back handle Al Snow and I grabbed Steve Ron Simmons grabbed John And we pulled them apart John was walking back and forth like a bandy rooster looking to fight before we left Steve told him I'm going to kill you. He meant it too Bradshaw approached Blackman later in the day to apologize But Blackman refused to accept the apology with Blackman saying again that he was going to kill him In the arena word had spread amongst the locker room that Bradshaw was in big trouble If you have something to say to me say it now or I'm going to end you in front of everyone Blackman warned Bradshaw ended up sincerely apologizing to Blackman who graciously decided to back off While it's no surprise that the wrestler dubbed the world's most dangerous man snapped in the face of Bradshaw's bullshit It's more surprising to hear that joey styles did the same Wow Hey, he caught the he y'all know that equation f around and find out he f the round and he found out even back then That's what the hardest shit it did That's how you deal with somebody like him, bro You beat the crap out of you give them the beats he was I believe he was he was gonna he was gonna hurt him, bro Like seriously hurt him like don't do that when someone say chill out chill out Took like chill like bro He get he was he was giving him the beats Seems like Where Bradshaw had reportedly spent the majority of the week severely intoxicated To make styles the latest target of his abuse It's not known whether styles snapped due to a buildup of bullying or a single comment But either way he couldn't take it any longer as other individuals moved in between the two men to try and break them up Styles slammed Bradshaw with a huge right hand leaving Bradshaw with a black eye Okay, as to whether the punch knocked Bradshaw out But it was said that it shut him up for the rest of the overseas trip Hey Man, my boy said you gotta be messed up gave him that one piece good combo Just one piece. That's all he needed. I love it According to other backstage reports Bradshaw spent the majority of that Monday night alone in the locker room being very quiet And spending time with his head down emailing people on his phone in the wider context Bradshaw managed to piss off a country of fans when he got banned from germany for throwing up the nazi salute And goose stepping around the ring. It was june 2004 The wwe were on their european tour stopping off in munich germany for a house show Wow Teaming up with book a tea to take on eddie guerrero and the undertaker in a tag team match During the match Bradshaw made the nazi salute not once but numerous times And then went goose stepping all over the ring The taunt nearly caused the riot to break out in the arena amongst the fans and bradshaw ended up being banned from germany because of it Nazi saluting and goose stepping is actually illegal everywhere in germany for Bradshaw didn't seem to care in an interview later. He said i'm a bad guy. I'm supposed to incite the crowd I've done it for decades. I really didn't think anything of it. I know how bad it is. I've lived in germany I draw the line between me and my character by the end of june I give what you're saying. I know you're a bad guy But you also gotta you got I get it. I get it. I get it. I get it But you also kind of gotta read the room too You your gods too There's a you could have did anything else to piss them off, but Yeah I i'm always for the heel being a good heel But at some point you don't want to use that I'm being a heel to get away with just doing whatever the hell you want and disrespecting whoever you want, especially in certain situations That's like you I'm be honest with you walking around saying the n word or the you know, the especially the hard are the hard. He are I'm like, hey, bro. What the I get at you a heel But what the you know saying hold on we go you don't have to talk we don't have to talk And I get adventures. He hit the the my nigga and uh to this day It still makes me cringe. I'm like, what the oh my gosh But still It's You gotta read the room 2004 Bradshaw would become W champion the transformation from Bradshaw the tag team partner to Farooq into JBL The cowboy hat wearing heel happened in the blink of an eye before we knew it JBL had defeated eddie Guerrero for the WWE title this video isn't about JBL's in-ring work or his onscreen persona And I know some people will disagree But I think JBL made for an effective bad guy and I like strong heel character. No, he was a great heel I really enjoyed seeing Bradshaw as wwe champion I wouldn't call him a wrestling god or anything and I would have preferred to see a three-month long raid instead of a nine-month Long reign, but I still enjoyed it after losing the belt to John Cena at WrestleMania 21 JBL would be reduced to us title level before starting to wind down his in-ring career and moving into commentary JBL's move into commentary was Ill-advised to say the least undoubtedly. He was one of the worst most irritating commentators in WWE history and listening to him on Raw made a three-hour show feel like a six-hour show In an interview with rick basman on his talking tough podcast Bradshaw was asked about his reputation of being a bully He said, you know, I could have deserved it. I don't know we were younger We broke balls and I was a laid guy from the safe as a lot of people I think took that wrong. Whatever you believe about John Bradshaw in the field There are a few others in wrestling with this many allegations about their behavior backstage Yeah, nah, he seemed like he was an asshole And we gotta stop using that excuse that we were young and dumb and all this other stuff Yeah, that that is the case a lot of times But you don't have to be a an asshole like that. You don't no one tells you no one says when you you're young You gotta be This way. No, you can choose to be however you want to be He just chose to be that way and people who took it they took it And then there's some people that didn't take it and he would shut they were you know, he would end up getting shut up so Amen comment down below. Let me know if y'all would have gave JBL some of these beats, man If he would have did some of the stuff that there's a ledge that he did Would y'all gave him the beats or would y'all just let it go? I'm I'm one of I'm one of them people now if I'm the hearties and you you messing with my stuff Bro, best believe you're just gonna see ladders tables and chairs being thrown your way And we're gonna have a match. It's gonna be a match It's gonna be a handicap tlc match And the only way it ends is you find let us know where our stuff at I'm not going through a flaming table and we're gonna have a grand old time Giving you several concertos until I get my stuff back. I kind of went on a rant there. Don't worry about it But I appreciate all the love and support Road to 150k and I am still getting on the speed of youtube wrestling champion the world in your interclutch world Everybody champion appreciate y'all kicking me see y'all next one. Peace