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WWE announcer John Bradshaw Layfield met with bullying accusations
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Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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JBL also is a good shoot fighter. If anyone besides Steve Blackman/Ken Shamrock/Brock tried to fight back he would just fuck them up.
What do you think depression is? Not being sarcastic or anything, gonna give you the benefit of the doubt for the hell of it.
Like actual depression where a doctor diagnoses you and stuff, what do you think that is?
Get your bama tail on somewhere
There's some shit I want to say in response to this that would get me banned, and you're not worth it. What I can say is that your head is clearly still stuck in middle school and I pity you.
If you ever unironically work "back in my day" into a post it may be time to re-evaluate it.
moustascheman
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If this was any other company in any other line of work, someone like JBL would've been fired five times over. Seriously, it's insane that a company as large as WWE doesn't have better standards for this type of crap when companies way smaller would have a zero tolerance policy for this type of shit.
I just want to say this is bad.
Not much else can be said that others did not already say, really.
Bad poster!
Professor Beef
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He thought I was agreeing with him, smh
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Goose_Se7en
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What is this supposed to mean? "Deadass bro" is a slang term I and many folks who grew up in my urban community use. What exactly are you tryna say here, just, so you know, I'm clear on it.
I was being sarcastic to your snark. Didn't come across apparently.
excelsiorlef
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You forgot Bart Gunn
MadLaughter
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"Back in my day I used to challenge someone to a gun duel and make their wife a widow if they bumped into me in the street"
Just because something used to be one way once doesn't mean that way was correct, mature, humane, just. We used to enslave people, burn people at the stake, put people in spiked coffins, work children in death factories, etc. It's not a valid argument to say 'back in my day', because society fucking LEARNS, ADAPTS, MATURES.
Finding better ways sure as hell isn't 'getting soft'.
Just because something used to be one way once doesn't mean that way was correct, mature, humane, just. We used to enslave people, burn people at the stake, put people in spiked coffins, work children in death factories, etc. It's not a valid argument to say 'back in my day', because society fucking LEARNS, ADAPTS, MATURES.
Finding better ways sure as hell isn't 'getting soft'.
You are a fucking joke.
billy beane
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Yeah only legit shoot fighters like Joey Styles have a chance to stand up to JBL.
RedAssedApe
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i wish i had a steve blackman
Raylan Targaryen
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Adults shouldn't be acting like children and teenagers.
Jesus H Christ
Puck Beaverton
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If you're bi-polar and depressed you're just soft and should man up.
Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
Professor Beef
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He was another victim of a harmless rib
Lol there is always someone desperate to stand out by defending stupid shit.
I was a bully in middle and early high school. I physically and emotionally bullied multiple students for years. It's not something that people should just put up with because it used to be the norm. It isn't anymore. It's not ok, we evolved as a society to a place where it's not accepted and that's a good thing.
I was a bully in middle and early high school. I physically and emotionally bullied multiple students for years. It's not something that people should just put up with because it used to be the norm. It isn't anymore. It's not ok, we evolved as a society to a place where it's not accepted and that's a good thing.
I wonder if we can get Enzo and Cass in here to spell "irony".
I thought only adults posted in here, guess I was wrong.
I'm going to go on a tangent here on this subject but...I feel like asking this to people who are suddenly outraged by this: Where have you guys been?
We've literally known about JBL's shit for YEARS now. Why is it so different now than it used to be? This isn't a new thing by any means, yet wrestling fans knowing about this shit have been keeping quiet on the subject. JBL has been getting cheered by smarks for years, smarks that know full of well of his behaviour.
Vince is even worse. The man covered up murder and has done all sorts of shady shit for years, but what happens when he shows up on RAW? The entire crowd, even smark crowds, go APESHIT! yet when Roman Reigns comes out they treat him like he's the black plague with the go away heat he gets, despite VINCE BEING THE ONE WHO IS BOOKING HIM TO BE THAT WAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It's so stupid, wrestling fans need to get their priorities straight here.
We've literally known about JBL's shit for YEARS now. Why is it so different now than it used to be? This isn't a new thing by any means, yet wrestling fans knowing about this shit have been keeping quiet on the subject. JBL has been getting cheered by smarks for years, smarks that know full of well of his behaviour.
Vince is even worse. The man covered up murder and has done all sorts of shady shit for years, but what happens when he shows up on RAW? The entire crowd, even smark crowds, go APESHIT! yet when Roman Reigns comes out they treat him like he's the black plague with the go away heat he gets, despite VINCE BEING THE ONE WHO IS BOOKING HIM TO BE THAT WAY IN THE FIRST PLACE!
It's so stupid, wrestling fans need to get their priorities straight here.
Idk what you're saying because most people I've seen have said JBL is trash and they can't stand him even before this information came out. I don't know anyone who's liked him.
99% of people in here are saying that Bradshaw has been a shitheel for a while. Who is acting like this is brand new?
Is that why it wasn't until recently that he was constantly being cheered by the crowd in every announcer entrance for the past few years?
Slavery was the culture of the South for a long time. Guess we shouldn't have bothered changing it because its tradition and always been that way. People were tougher when they were slaves and could take a good ribbing too back in the day.
Hey, let's blame wrestling fans. That will solve this.
It's not wrestling fans at fault here, I just get frustrated about how all of a sudden the JBL being a shithead thing is a hot topic on news outlets, when it should've been many, many years ago and then some. And because of that, a lot of smarks are booing the man on TV. Where were these boos years ago? Why does it have to be a big news story to be something they should already know about or be doing?
JBL didn't get in trouble for bullying a man with depression and BPD and anxiety issues years ago. He got in trouble for just being a dick, not for basically being part of the reason a man lost his dream job.
The crowd? Do you mean the crowd that are marks or smarks? Because there's clearly a difference. Don't act like all of the crowd supports the same thing. JBL falls in line here because from what I've seen everyone on this forum has disliked him even before this news broke, same with other places I visit, not everyone likes the guy. What you're doing is putting every wrestling fan in a box because everyone's against this. That in no way mean everyone wasn't against JBL in general. That's just blaming fans rather than the central problem. Secondly,
Hey things change. I loved the Attitutde era yet I look now and think, wtf were they thinking.
The audience used to chant Faggot at Goldust. People thought that was ok.
All I can think is now. And right now, fans are trying to get him canned. Some stuff we didn't even learn until recently.
JBL did a pretty good job of making people think he had changed his ways in recent years. He took pictures with blue meanie with a big smile on his face. He cleaned up his interviews and tried to be more positive and supportive of talent. He stayed out of the news and made people believe he had changed. This latest incident is just showing people that despite his attempts to clean up his act, he is still the same old piece of garbage as he always was.
I don't mean to blame fans, but yes, wrestling fans tend to have the attention span of cats on meth. They get bored easily and tend to move past shit quickly. But in the case of jbl, he actively worked to make people think he had changed.
I don't mean to blame fans, but yes, wrestling fans tend to have the attention span of cats on meth. They get bored easily and tend to move past shit quickly. But in the case of jbl, he actively worked to make people think he had changed.
JBL got louder pops amongst smarks than marks for years now, though, so it isn't really much of an argument.
At the end of the day you're putting all wrestling fans in a box here when really it's not everyone. If you're taking that angle to things then good job. It's just not accurate.
Generalizing isn't a good thing to do most of the time either. This is certainly one of those times.
Puck Beaverton
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Doing it to Mauro Ranallo, which caused him to quit, is what made people go "enough is enough".
Is it time for a change?
Raging Spaniard
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You have to really be lacking in empathy if you think your personal experiences = everyone elses. If the business is broken and its hurting people due to its horrible social culture then it needs to change.
Im sure in anyones job we all get friends n rib n joke around. But theres always a line n most know where it is. Bringing peoples health into things isnt a joke far from it. Stealing someone's passport is far from fynny. If youe doing something that hinders someone in doing something then its not funny
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