![]() ![]() You see, she stole from me - a Mexican lady - and so I need another. “But I tell you what, the benevolent guy that I am, I did just lose my housekeeper. I wanna congratulate you people in Los Angeles, because you are part of history! The new era of John Bradshaw Layfield’s America! I know that a lot of you swam an awful long way, and climbed a bunch of fences to get here! But I’d like to tell you this - save a spot on the raft for Eddie Guerrero, to take him back to that third world you call Mexico! “I will be doing this in English, so for those of you who need a translator, look to an American near you and ask him to translate to English, please. JBL takes the mic to try and get them to care. He’s out to absolutely zero reaction, just a dead silent crowd at the Staples Center in LA. ![]() “I’m gonna kick the living shit out of you!”īradshaw has guaranteed victory in this match. “This isn’t about Eddie’s mom! This is about my meeting with destiny!” “The one that everybody has to worry about, especially your family, is YOU.” “Make no mistake - I don’t give a damn about Eddie Guerrero’s mother! If she dies, she dies!” “You don’t understand somethin’, John! You traumatized my family! You put your hands on a 76-year-old defenseless woman! That, my friend, is a coward!” “Eddie Guerrero put his family in harm’s way! That’s his business! Eddie has to take responsibility for the circumstances and what happens - the consequences!” Guerrero’s heart attack, and then clips of the great promos that came after. In fact, it was basically the only opponent who was going to get this shit over in 2004.ĭuring the video package, we see the house show clips of Mrs. He won the Kurt Angle Great American Award, which resulted in a title shot against Guerrero, a perfect opponent for this new piece of shit JBL character. So here you have JBL, ol’ Bradshaw, a guy the crowd really had no reason to believe was going to stick in this latest of many dry hump attempts to push him up the card as a solo act. He oughtn’t have goose stepped in Germany (a WWE PR rep even harshly stated, “What he did in the ring was not probably the best thing to have done”), but I liked what really drove this feud, JBL causing Guerrero’s dear mother to have a heart attack at a house show. Now, I’m not upset by most of what he did, because, y’know, it’s pretend. So organizational soldier Bradshaw got the call, revamped into John Bradshaw Layfield, a rich bigot out to draw that OLD SCHOOL heat. It couldn’t be Undertaker, another babyface and not the spot for him at the moment. So after WrestleMania, where Eddie beat Angle, Kurt was on the sidelines for a few months and somebody had to step in. champ, but (1) they’d already done a Guerrero-Cena feud in the autumn of 2003, and at any rate they were now both babyfaces, Guerrero on top as The Guy and Cena on the way up to being The Guy. It was a move born out of desperation, as Brock Lesnar had quit, Kurt Angle was hurt, and Smackdown just had nobody for WWE champion Eddie Guerrero to wrestle. But his sudden 2004 mega-push to the top of the card was wild. ![]() I know I’ve said here and here that I liked Bradshaw as a wrestler, and I did/do. ![]()
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