WWE Hall Of Famer JBL Recalls Racial Profiling Incident From The Road

Again within the day, when wrestlers nonetheless needed to journey from present to indicate by themselves, they’d usually get into wild conditions and over time veterans have shared most of the tales on podcasts and elsewhere. Sadly, not each story was good, and in accordance with John “Bradshaw” Layfield in an episode of “One thing To Wrestle,” he, Ron Simmons, and Teddy Lengthy have been all racially profiled by a police officer on the street.

“The cop simply – I imply actually, he profiled us and pulled us over,” the veteran claimed, additional explaining that Lengthy had a worry of policemen, and was instructed him to get a sobriety check. “And Teddy’s failing the sobriety check, despite the fact that he is had nothing to drink!” Layfield then claimed that Simmons – from the backseat – instructed Lengthy to query the cop, who then realized that he was ingesting.

“So, he [the police officer] (…) goes ‘I consider I scent alcohol?’ and Ron goes ‘Oh, now you are a f**king Bloodhound?’ So now I am pondering: we’ll jail,” Layfield claimed. He then additional defined that he tried to take the autumn and inform the police officer that he was the one ingesting, however Simmons would not have it and blurted out that he was drunk too. The cop then pulled a gun on Simmons, and the veteran jokingly steered that he and Layfield run into the woods to flee. 

“He writes [Long] like two or three tickets that have been – they have been pretend and phony as might be, and Teddy finally ends up driving us the improper route, and we find yourself making it house at six o’clock within the morning,” Layfield rhapsodized.

Sadly, when it got here to the wrestling territories that veterans like John “Bradshaw” Layfield and Ron Simmons competed in, racism was one thing that wrestlers usually skilled, and tales about promoters like Invoice Watts have been broadly shared over time. 

“You had territories that have been extremely racist and sexist, and also you identify it,” Layfield recalled in the course of the podcast when reminiscing on the unhealthy facet of wrestling territories. “I believe there was an inditement of the instances, I imply, there was a variety of – man – there was a variety of racism and a variety of segregation, folks simply did not know…”

Nevertheless, Layfield identified that he and Simmons weren’t the one tag groups with wresters of various ethnicities. 

“You have a look at how wrestling was, you realize, earlier than me and Ron began tagging and now you had Thunderbolt and Brisco as tag group companions – which was groundbreaking on the time,” the WWE Corridor of Famer famous. “You had Owen and Koko in addition to the Dudleys in ECW about the identical time as us.”

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