I don’t think JBL would have been around another PPV.
If JBL had anybody else other than Eddie, it probably would have been a one off at The Staples Center. He really took pride in getting JBL over. Especially the southwest in front of huge Latino audiences, I would always say it and people would get so furious. He would send into the referee some phrase he would want me to say, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes in English. He said to tell them, ‘My ancestors came over here in a boat, not an inner tube.’ I said, ‘Eddie, you’re going to get me killed.’ Sometimes we would be in the ring and I would be cutting a promo. “Eddie would call me all times of the day and night and give me ideas for promos. Layfield talked about the friendship he had with Eddie Guerrero: That was just a moment in time that they did, and fortunately, it was kind of on the front burner of Vince’s mind that when he needed it, he was able to pull it out.” As far as coming in earlier, they didn’t need it. I was thrilled to be able to bring out the JBL character at that point. All of a sudden this break came, and they needed somebody for Eddie in 6 weeks at The Staples Center. I had a torn bicep, a hernia surgery, another hernia surgery, and after the second hernia surgery, I thought I was retired. That’s when they needed a main event guy against Eddie Guerrero, so I just got lucky. There were a whole host of things that happened at the same time, and they needed that character right away. They came upon a need when Eddie Guerrero got the title because Big Show was hurt, Kurt Angle was hurt, and Brock Lesnar left the company. They didn’t really have a lot for me, but that was fine as well. It was fine with me just being Bradshaw at that point. So, they didn’t really need the JBL character. I’ve never talked to Vince about it, so I don’t have this from him personally, but I have the feeling they didn’t really want me to be a heel at that time because of what was going on in the country, and I was going to Iraq and Afghanistan quite a bit. I was doing a lot of stuff with the soldiers. The biggest thing that happened during that time was after 9/11, I was going to Iraq a lot. Layfield was asked if the JBL character could have debuted after himself and Ron Simmons got split up due to the brand split in 2002: John Bradshaw Layfield joined Christy Olson on this week to take some fan questions about his wrestling career.
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