John Layfield Bio
Name : John Charles Layfield
Ring Name : John Bradshow Layfield
Birth Date : 29 November 1966
Birth Place : Texas, USA
Mini Bio
John Charles Layfield (conceived November 29, 1966),
better known by the ring name John Bradshaw Layfield (additionally organized as
John "Bradshaw" Layfield, curtailed JBL), is an American shading
observer, and resigned proficient wrestler, as a feature of the communicate
group on SmackDown and pay-per-view occasions.
Outside of his WWE work, Layfield is a monetary
examiner for Fox News. Inside WWE, he was beforehand known by the ring name
Bradshaw, and preceding that, the varieties Justin "Falcon" Bradshaw
and Blackjack Bradshaw (as half of The New Blackjacks with Blackjack Windham).
As JBL, Layfield was WWE Champion for 280 days from 2004–2005 in the wake of
crushing Eddie Guerrero for the title.
Layfield's fundamental contrivance as JBL – a well
off, huge mouthed, red hot tempered specialist – depended on Layfield's genuine
achievements as a securities exchange speculator. Layfield is a visitor
specialist on Fox News Channel's The Cost of Freedom, has showed up on CNBC,
and has composed a book on monetary arranging called Have More Money Now. He
has a weekend talk radio system, syndicated broadly by Talk Radio Network, in
which he examines his moderate political views. Layfield is likewise utilized
by Northeast Securities as its Senior Vice President.
Layfield won 24 all out titles including one rule as
WWE Champion, one rule as United States Champion, one rule as European
Champion, 17 rules as Hardcore Champion, one rule as Intercontinental Champion,
and three rules as WWF Tag Team Champion with Faarooq as a component of the Acolytes
Protection Agency (APA). He is additionally perceived by WWE as the twentieth
Triple Crown Champion and the eleventh Grand Slam Champion.
Full Bio
Football
Before his expert wrestling vocation, Layfield was a
university American football mentor for Trinity Valley Community College and
player for Abilene Christian University. At Abilene, Layfield was a two-year
starter in all out attack mode line and was named first-group All-Lone Star
Conference as a lesser and senior. Layfield marked with the Los Angeles Raiders
as an undrafted free operator, yet was discharged before the 1990 season
started. Layfield played in the World League of American Football, beginning
every one of the ten amusements of the 1991 season at right handle for the San
Antonio Riders, wearing pullover number 61. Dallas Cowboys head mentor Jason
Garrett was the quarterback of that group.
Worldwide Wrestling Federation (1992–1994)
Layfield was prepared at first by Brad Rheingans and
initially began wrestling in the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF) in Texas.
His first trick was as John Hawk, storyline cousin of the Windham siblings. He
shaped the label group "Texas Mustangs" with Bobby Duncum, Jr.; they
rapidly won the GWF Tag Team Championship from Rough Riders (Black Bart and Johnny
Mantell) on November 27 however dropped the titles to The Bad Breed (Ian and
Axl Rotten) on January 29, 1993. Soon thereafter, Hawk won his second GWF Tag
Team Championship with Black Bart on December 25 from Steve Dane and Chaz
Taylor. They held the title for quite a while before losing them to The
Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy Garvin and Terry Gordy) on June 3, 1994.
Global circuit
In January 1993, Layfield went on his first abroad
trek to Japan, wrestling for George and Shunji Takano's Network Of Wrestling.
Later that same year, he would likewise wrestle in Mexico for Consejo Mundial
de Lucha Libre, wrestling under the name Vampiro Americano and as often as
possible collaborated with Vampiro Canadiense. He would likewise wrestle for
Federacion Internacional de Lucha Libre, where he won its Heavyweight
Championship. In June 1994, he went to Europe and visited Austria and Germany
for Otto Wanz's Catch Wrestling Association, where he won its World Tag Team
Championship with Cannonball Grizzly in November 1995. In March 1995, he came
back to Japan, however with NOW as of late collapsed, he went to Genichiro
Tenryu's WAR, where he passed by the name Death Mask.
National Wrestling Alliance
After the GWF close down in September 1994, he joined
the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Layfield won the NWA North American
Heavyweight Championship on January 14, 1995, overcoming Kevin Von Erich. Two
months after the fact, he lost the NWA North American title to Greg "The
Hammer" Valentine.
World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
Following three and a half years visiting the
autonomous circuit, Layfield marked an agreement with the World Wrestling
Federation (WWF) in late 1995 and appeared in January 1996 as Justin "Bird
of prey" Bradshaw, overcoming Bob Holly in his presentation match. His
underlying contrivance was that of an extreme cattle rustler/mountain man.
After triumphs, he marked his rivals with the image "JB" in ink,
instead of being burned into the substance. Bradshaw stayed undefeated for just
about a year until a pinfall misfortune to Shawn Michaels on the September 29,
1996 scene of Superstars. Overseen by Uncle Zebekiah, the character failed out
before the year's over, maybe recollected just for a quarrel with Savio Vega
and a match with Fatu which he won in eight seconds.
The New Blackjacks
In February 1997, Layfield matched up with his
storyline cousin Barry Windham to shape The New Blackjacks, complete with the
customary "Blackjack" handlebar mustaches and short, ebony hair.
Windham's wounds heaped up all through 1997, so the
group disbanded, and Layfield wrestled just periodically on TV as Blackjack
Bradshaw, now and then collaborating with kindred Texan Terry Funk. He earned a
shot at the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship against Jeff Jarrett at
No Way Out of Texas: In Your House and won by preclusion, however Jarrett held
the title on the grounds that a title can't change hands by an exclusion. In
1998, he wrestled as a mid-carder wrestling any semblance of Marc Mero at
Mayhem in Manchester, Kaientai (Funaki, Dick Togo, and Men's Teioh) with Taka
Michinoku in an impairment match at Over the Edge in which Michinoku was stuck,
and Vader in a Falls Count Anywhere coordinate at Breakdown which was won by
Bradshaw.
In late 1998, Bradshaw joined nearby previous Nation
of Domination part Faarooq to shape the label group of the Acolytes, oversaw by
the Jackyl. After the Jackyl left the WWF, Faarooq and Bradshaw joined the
Undertaker's new Ministry of Darkness. The Ministry went ahead to quarrel with the
Corporation. As a major aspect of the Ministry, Bradshaw fought with Ken
Shamrock. The two stables would soon join as the Corporate Ministry, yet
disbanded after Stone Cold Steve Austin vanquished the Undertaker at Fully
Loaded. At the point when the Undertaker went on break in September, Bradshaw
and Faarooq's dull contrivance blurred.
On the May 31, 1999 scene of Raw Is War, the Acolytes
(still with the Corporate Ministry) won their first WWF Tag Team Championship
by vanquishing Kane and X-Pac. On the July 5 scene of Raw Is War, they dropped
the titles to the Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) before crushing the Hardyz and
their director Michael "P.S." Hayes at Fully Loaded for their second
WWF Tag Team Championship. On the August 9 scene of Raw Is War, they lost the
titles to Kane and X-Pac.
The team got to be fan top picks and changed their
trick to that of stogie smoking bar brawlers for hire. In pants and T-shirts,
Faarooq and Bradshaw turned into the Acolytes Protection Agency (APA), with a
maxim of "in light of the fact that we require brew cash." The pair
was frequently found in the private cabins of fields with a poker table and
later a confined entryway entertainingly amidst the regularly extensive, open
broadcast foyers; they demanded that anybody entering the space utilize the
entryway. Every so often, if the "room" was obliterated in one field,
it was set up precisely as it was decimated at the following field for comic
impact.
The Acolytes earned a shot at the WWF Tag Title at the
Royal Rumble against the New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn), however
lost the match. Their next shot at the title was at Fully Loaded when they
confronted Edge and Christian. The Acolytes won the match by exclusion yet did
not get to be champions. After unsuccessfully trying for the label title in
2000, APA won their third WWF Tag Team Championship on the July 9, 2001 scene
of Raw is War by crushing the Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von). On the August
9 scene of SmackDown!, they lost the label title to Alliance individuals
Diamond Dallas Page and Chris Kanyon.
On the October 22 scene of Raw Is War, Bradshaw
vanquished The Hurricane to win the WWF European Championship, his first
singles title in the WWF. He lost the title to Christian on the November 1
scene of SmackDown!. At No Way Out in 2002, APA won a Tag Team Turmoil match
and therefore, they tested for the label title at WrestleMania X8 alongside
Hardys and Dudleys, in a Four Corners Elimination match. The champions Billy
and Chuck held their title.
Not long after WrestleMania, Faarooq and Bradshaw
split because of the brand augmentation. Layfield was drafted to Raw where his
Bradshaw contrivance had an expanded accentuation on his Texas roots, which
included him conveying a cowbell to the ring and collaborating with kindred
Texan Stone Cold Steve Austin. Bradshaw helped Austin in the last's quarrel
against the nWo, collaborating with him against them and had a brief fight with
Scott Hall where he confronted Hall at Backlash in a losing exertion because of
obstruction by X-Pac. Taking after Austin's walkout on the WWE, Bradshaw joined
the bad-to-the-bone division and won the WWE Hardcore Championship seventeen
times, with his first title win coming over Steven Richards. He renamed the
title the Texas Hardcore Championship. It was likewise amid this time his
completing move was quickly renamed from the "Clothesline From Hell"
to the "Clothesline From Texas" or the "Clothesline From Deep in
the Heart of Texas". Jim Ross frequently called the move all things
considered amid his critique, in spite of the fact that the name in the end
returned to the first "Clothesline From Hell".
In the bad-to-the-bone division, Bradshaw fought and
traded the title with any semblance of Richards, Shawn Stasiak, Raven,
Christopher Nowinski, Big Show, Justin Credible, Johnny Stamboli, Crash Holly,
Jeff Hardy, and Tommy Dreamer, before the title was brought together by WWE
Intercontinental Champion Rob Van Dam in August 2002. In September 2002,
Layfield endured a torn went out appear. He was out of activity for six months
until coming back to Ohio Valley Wrestling and after that a couple of weeks
after the fact to the dynamic WWE list.
APA gathering
Bradshaw returned on a scene of SmackDown! in 2003,
which saw him and his old companion Faarooq sparing the Undertaker from the
hands of Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli. Layfield came back with another
look by trimming his long hair, returning it to its normal shading, and going
clean shaven. His new look would just be referenced once when, in a scripted
fragment, Faarooq got some information about it. Bradshaw demanded that he had
as of now recounted the story to Faarooq, who dismisses this case. The pair
would come back to play out their normal fragments, as they did before the
brand augmentation, for example, playing poker, drinking lager, and fixing
whizzes of their cash. Not at all like some time recently, they would not
assault or secure different hotshots at the business of different whizzes as
none would contract them. At Vengeance, Bradshaw won a tavern fight match which
highlighted Faarooq and an assortment of mid-card geniuses and other WWE
employees. The twosome wrestled label groups, for example, the Basham Brothers
(Doug and Danny) at No Mercy and The World's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas
and Shelton Benjamin) at No Way Out. At WrestleMania XX in 2004, they
unsuccessfully tested for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a lethal four-manner
label group match. The contrivance proceeded on-and-off until the March 18
scene of SmackDown! until losing a label group "You're Fired" match
to WWE Tag Team Champions Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty for the label group title.
General Manager Paul Heyman, disappointed by an affront by the APA, told Faarooq
that in the event that he didn't win the previously mentioned match, then
"You're Fired". After the match, Bradshaw drove Faarooq back to
Heyman's office to state they had not been let go, but rather had surrendered.
At that point Heyman cleared up the misconception and pointed out that he said
that on the off chance that they didn't win the titles, then he told Faarooq
"You're let go". His purpose behind saying this straightforwardly to
Faarooq was on the grounds that it connected just to Faarooq in light of the
fact that "WWE Management" still saw a considerable measure of
potential in Bradshaw. He exited them subsequent to informing Bradshaw to think
concerning his own particular future. Faarooq yelled after Heyman that he was
not let go on the grounds that they (Faarooq and Bradshaw) had stopped.
Bradshaw, be that as it may, wavered. Faarooq interpreted Bradshaw's wavering
as meaning that he would not leave, thus Faarooq quickly disbanded the APA and
left. Actually, the WWE had chosen to quit utilizing Ron Simmons as an on-air
entertainer. He was at first terminated, however he was later re-procured to
work in the background in the WWE under different parts.
WWE Champion
After the on air character of Faarooq vanished from
WWE TV, Bradshaw continued to go up against a J. R. Ewing esque contrivance,
turning into a heel surprisingly since 1999 complete with a suit, cowpoke cap,
and tie as he started his first headliner push. He started alluding to himself
as John Bradshaw Layfield, or JBL. His completing move's name was a piece of
the redesign, turning into the Clothesline From Wall Street until he later
transformed it back to its unique name. His first promo was on the fringe
amongst Texas and Mexico, where he chased for approaching unlawful settlers
keeping in mind the end goal to win an "Awesome American Award",
which conceded the victor number one contendership to the WWE Championship. He
won, on account of the then-SmackDown! heel general supervisor Kurt Angle, and
instantly tested Eddie Guerrero for the title.
The storyline paving the way to the match was that JBL
brought on Guerrero's mom to show at least a bit of kindness assault at a house
show when he debilitated her and snatched her by the shoulder. At Judgment Day,
JBL vanquished Guerrero by means of exclusion in a match for the WWE title. A
title can't change hands by preclusion, so Guerrero held the title. JBL
questionably won his exclusively big showdown, the WWE Championship from
Guerrero in a Texas Bull Rope match at The Great American Bash. The underlying
choice of Guerrero's triumph was turned around by then-General Manager Kurt
Angle, recompensing the match and the title to JBL; the replay demonstrated
that JBL touched the fourth corner before Guerrero. JBL won a rematch in a
steel confine two weeks after the fact, again with Angle's assistance.
In the wake of asserting he would not protect the
title at SummerSlam, The Undertaker tested JBL for the title. Around this time,
JBL employed Orlando Jordan to help him in title matches. At SummerSlam, JBL
won the match by disqualification. After the match, Undertaker chokeslammed JBL
through the top of his limo. JBL wore a radiance complete with his cowpoke cap
on top for the following couple of weeks to offer his "wounds". SmackDown!
General Manager Theodore Long then reserved a Last Ride match for the title at
No Mercy. JBL held the title with some assistance from Heidenreich.
In spite of the fact that JBL held the title for a
long time, most title matches were won controversially. At Survivor Series, JBL
vanquished Booker T to hold his WWE Championship by smacking Booker in the face
with the title belt when the ref was thumped out. JBL crushed Eddie Guerrero,
The Undertaker, and Booker T in a Fatal Four-Way at Armageddon after a keep
running in by Heidenreich, who weakened the Undertaker, permitting JBL to
exploit and hit Booker with the Clothesline From Hell to get the pinfall
triumph.
Amid JBL's opportunity as WWE Champion, he utilized a
stable named "The Cabinet". At its pinnacle, the stable contained
Orlando Jordan, who was JBL's "Head of-Staff" and Doug and Danny
Basham, who were his "Co-Secretaries of Defense" until stopping the
Cabinet on the June 16, 2005 scene of SmackDown!. Amy Weber was likewise a
part, being JBL's picture advisor, yet later left WWE. WWE clarified Weber's
nonattendance by saying that JBL terminated her after a scene of SmackDown!
taped in Japan. That scene saw Weber unintentionally shoot JBL with a sedative
firearm. Jordan is the main part not reported to have left the gathering,
however say of the term bureau went on rest after SummerSlam and Orlando was
discharged from WWE in May 2006.
JBL's fortunes proceeded in mid 2005; at the Royal
Rumble, he snuck past both Big Show and Kurt Angle in a Triple Threat match
when he stuck Angle after the Clothesline From Hell. He by and by developed
with his title in place from WWE's first-since forever Barbed Wire Steel Cage
match at No Way Out against Big Show. JBL won the match when Big Show
chokeslammed JBL off the top rope through the ring. JBL figured out how to
slither out from under the ring cover before Show could make it to the floor, winning
the match by escape. On the following scene of SmackDown!, JBL had a "Festival
of Excellence" in which he and his Cabinet commended the way that he was
the longest-reigning WWE Champion in ten years, a gathering which was separated
and demolished by The Big Show and recently delegated number one contender John
Cena. JBL was bothered reliably by John Cena to make him counter as John Cena
could then strike back. Cena neglected to persuade Layfield to do as such.
JBL lost the WWE Championship to John Cena at
WrestleMania 21. Layfield's unbroken nine-month reign was charged as the
longest in 10 years, enduring 280 days. On the April 28 scene of SmackDown!,
JBL crushed Big Show, Booker T, and Kurt Angle in a four-manner disposal match
to acquire a rematch for the WWE title, however lost to Cena at Judgment Day in
an "I Quit" match.
Different quarrels and United States Champion
On June 12, Layfield showed up at the WWE-advanced ECW
One Night Stand pay-per-view as a hostile to ECW "crusader". Over the
span of the night, he assaulted The Blue Meanie in a shoot. WWE profited by the
circumstance by leaving Meanie to a transient contract. On the July 7 scene of
SmackDown!, Meanie was brought together with his old The Blue World Order
partners Nova and Stevie Richards and he vanquished Layfield with the
assistance of the World Heavyweight Champion Batista, who was drafted to
SmackDown! a couple of weeks after Cena was drafted to Raw.
Layfield and Batista then met in a match at The Great
American Bash for the World Heavyweight Championship. JBL won the match by
exclusion, after Batista hit JBL with a steel seat. Be that as it may, a title
does not change hands by preclusion, so Batista held the title. At SummerSlam,
Batista crushed Layfield in a rematch. JBL lost another rematch with Batista on
the September 9 scene of SmackDown! in a Texas Bullrope match.
On the September 16 scene of SmackDown!, JBL lost to
Rey Mysterio,. He procured Jillian Hall to "alter" his profession. At
No Mercy, JBL crushed Mysterio in a rematch.
In mid 2006, JBL began a fight with The Boogeyman who
frightened him commonly in the new year. The two had a match at the Royal Rumble,
which the Boogeyman won. His next adversary was Bobby Lashley, whom Layfield
vanquished at No Way Out. On the February 24, 2006 scene of SmackDown!, he
endured a broken hand on account of Chris Benoit in a six-man label group
match, and WWE.com declared that he experienced fruitful surgery. Layfield
returned and quarreled with Benoit, crushing him for his WWE United States
Championship at WrestleMania 22. During this time, Jillian Hall stayed along
the edge of JBL until the April 21 scene of SmackDown! at the point when JBL
let go Hall, because of an error she made amid a JBL/Benoit steel confine
rematch the prior week and in addition
her absence of assembling a "fitting" festival for him.
JBL, while still United States Champion, tested for
the World Heavyweight Championship. JBL attempted to debilitate then champion
Rey Mysterio in the weeks paving the way to his title match as Mysterio went
head to head against any adversary of JBL's picking. Mysterio was vanquished by
Mark Henry and squashed by The Great Khali in non title singles matches before
confronting Raw's Kane in a match, that went to a no-challenge. This was
prompting their title match at Judgment Day, which Mysterio won and held the
title by sticking JBL after a frog splash. On the May 26 scene of SmackDown!,
JBL lost the U.S. title to Bobby Lashley. He likewise lost another endeavor at
the World Heavyweight Championship against Mysterio, expressing already that he
would stop SmackDown! in the event that he lost that match. When he lost, the
group at the field started to sing "Na, Hey, Goodbye". JBL later expressed that he didn't have a formal
contract with Teddy Long going into the match and that he didn't expect to
leave SmackDown!. This edge was utilized to give JBL time off wrestling because
of his genuine back damage.
At One Night Stand, Layfield reported that he would
have Tazz's spot as the new shading pundit for SmackDown!. He made his introduction as a heelish shading
reporter on the June 16 scene of SmackDown!. Layfield noted in an editorial on
TheStreet.com that he was resigning from in-ring rivalry for good. In his last
segment on the site, JBL kept in touch with, "I have additionally come to
trust that you can't battle father time. A crushed spirit endured in a match in
England, aggravated by a herniated and lump plate, at last made me understand
my vocation as an expert wrestler was over. I since moved to the shading
discourse position much in the way that Jesse Ventura did before me."
JBL came back to the ring on November 13, 2006, in the
headliner of a WWE house show in Dublin, Ireland. JBL cooperated with Mr.
Kennedy and King Booker against The Brothers of Destruction (Kane and The
Undertaker), and Batista. On the December 22 scene of SmackDown!, JBL cut a
promo chiding Theodore Long and reviling out the fans for cheering amid the
Inferno match at Armageddon five days prior ("Rome didn't fall in light of
the combatants in the ring. Rome fell on account of the observers in the
stands.")
On the October 12, 2007 scene of Smackdown!, Layfield
was reported as one of the choices WWE fans would have the capacity to vote in
favor of to be the unique visitor ref at Cyber Sunday for the World Heavyweight
Championship match amongst Batista and The Undertaker, yet he lost the vote to Stone
Cold Steve Austin. At Cyber Sunday, he issued a warmed fight towards those
running nearby him, at last accepting a Stone Cold Stunner from Austin. After
this, he got to be physical as a shading reporter, assaulting both Batista and
The Undertaker amidst a match as requital after he was skewered by Batista and
later chokeslammed by The Undertaker in the wake of provoking them
sequentially, in occasions paving the way to the compensation per-view. He
advocated these activities by clarifying, "I am resigned, not dead"
(and that he [Layfield] ought to be respected).
In December 2007 at Armageddon, JBL was available at
the SmackDown broadcaster's table amid the WWE Championship match. Amid this
match, Randy Orton whipped a charging Chris Jericho over the commentator table
where JBL was arranged, and in the warmth of the match, Jericho
"pushed" JBL off the beaten path. Minutes after the fact, a chafed JBL
kicked Jericho in the head, prompting a preclusion triumph for Jericho implying
that Orton held the title.
On the December 17, 2007 scene of Raw, JBL declared
that he would continue his vocation in light of a test made by Jericho. On the
December 21 scene of SmackDown!, JBL gave his goodbye address from SmackDown,
formally denoting his arrival to Raw on December 31. Jericho was excluded in
their match at the Royal Rumble in the wake of hitting JBL with a chair. The
twosome struggled in a rematch on the February 11 scene of Raw, which Jericho
won.
On February 18 on Raw, JBL meddled in the planned
steel confine match between Mr. McMahon and his storyline ill-conceived child,
Hornswoggle. After Vince whipped Hornswoggle with his belt, JBL assaulted
Finlay from behind and bound him to the top rope. After Mr. McMahon left the
ring, JBL continued to beat Hornswoggle tossing him against the sides of the
cage. JBL later uncovered to McMahon that Hornswoggle was Finlay's storyline
child, not McMahon's. On March 29, JBL drafted the Brisco Brothers into the WWE
Hall of Fame. On March 30, JBL crushed Finlay in a Belfast Brawl at
WrestleMania XXIV.
JBL's first title offer since coming back to the ring
stopped by testing Randy Orton for the WWE Championship and taking an interest
in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match at Backlash that additionally included
John Cena and Triple H. JBL was disposed of first in the match by tapping out
to Cena's STF, in this manner recharging their fight from 2005. Cena vanquished
JBL at Judgment Day and after that at One Night Stand in a First Blood match.
He figured out how to vanquish Cena in a New York City Parking Lot Brawl at The
Great American Bash.
JBL's next on-screen contention was with CM Punk, the
dominant World Heavyweight Champion. Amid the fight, JBL offended Punk's
straight-edge way of life, calling it "exhausting" and saying he
could challenge Punk to a challenge he couldn't win which was uncovered to be a
liquor drinking challenge on Raw. Punk, rather than drinking a shot, said that
he took after his own particular guidelines, before tossing the beverage in
JBL's face. JBL at last got his match for Punk's title at SummerSlam, which he
would lose after Punk handled the Go To Sleep. On September 7 at Unforgiven,
JBL confronted Batista, Kane, Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho (who supplanted
Punk in the match after he was assaulted by Randy Orton.) in a Championship
Scramble match for the World Heavyweight title. Jericho went ahead to win the match
and the World Heavyweight Championship. On October 5 at No Mercy, JBL was
vanquished by Batista in a Number One Contender for the World Heavyweight
Championship match.
In November 2008, JBL had an on-screen short
contention with Shawn Michaels which drove at Survivor Series (2008) in a five
on five label group end label group match in which Michaels' group rise
successful. Michaels had lost his family's close to home investment funds
because of the worldwide money related emergency and would turn into Layfield's
worker. In the wake of neglecting to secure JBL the World Heavyweight
Championship against John Cena at the Royal Rumble, Michaels consented to
partake in a "Win big or bust" match at No Way Out on February 15,
2009, Shawn won the match, after his better half (who was viewing in the crowd)
punched JBL in the face and Michaels planted the Sweet Chin Music. This
finished any livelihood joins between the two with Michaels as yet getting the
full installment owed to him and end the fight.
On the March 9 scene of Raw, JBL vanquished CM Punk to
win the Intercontinental Championship, in this way turning into the eleventh
Grand Slam Champion and twentieth Triple Crown Champion. He held the title for
one month, losing the Intercontinental title at WrestleMania XXV against Rey
Mysterio in 21 seconds. After the match, JBL got an amplifier and he said
"I quit!"; the following day he declared his retirement on his WWE
Universe blog.
Come back to WWE
Layfield made his arrival to WWE on the March 7, 2011
scene of Raw as Michael Cole's decision for uncommon visitor official for his
match against Jerry Lawler at WrestleMania XXVII. He cut a promo asserting he
was beginning his "adventure back to the headliner at WrestleMania",
before being hindered by Stone Cold Steve Austin pretty much as he was going to
sign the agreement. After a brief contention between the two, Austin hit
Layfield with the Stone Cold Stunner and marked the agreement to be the exceptional
visitor arbitrator.
On March 31, 2012 Layfield accepted his previous label
group accomplice and genuine closest companion Ron Simmons into the 2012 WWE
Hall of Fame. On July 23 Layfield returned as a face with Simmons at Raw 1000
as the APA, in the wake of being called for assurance by Lita. After a
Clothesline from Hell, Lita crushed Heath Slater.
Come back to commentating
Beginning at Night of Champions, Layfield came back to
his JBL persona, and sporadically filled in as shading analyst, supplanting
Jerry Lawler, who endured a true blue heart assault amid the Raw scene going
before Night of Champions. Layfield later re-marked with the advancement and
came back to the SmackDown communicate group on a full-time premise, nearby
Josh Mathews and in the long run Michael Cole.
On April 1, 2013, JBL turned into the third reporter
for Raw close by Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. JBL was likewise part of the
discourse group at WWE pay-per-sees and commentated at WrestleMania 29. On
September 12, 2013, JBL was named Commissioner of NXT, supplanting Dusty
Rhodes.
On January 26, 2014 at Royal Rumble, JBL wrestled in
his first WWE match in almost five years as an astonishment contestant in the
Royal Rumble match. Having been on analysis the entire communicate, JBL left
the reporter's table when his number (#24) came up. In any case, Layfield was
immediately wiped out by Roman Reigns while attempting to hand his coat to
Michael Cole, and continued his part as observer for whatever remains of the
communicate. In July, Layfield was resigned as NXT General Manager.
On the January 19, 2015 scene of Raw, JBL, alongside
Ron Simmons (a kindred individual from The Acolytes Protection Agency), the New
World Order and The New Age Outlaws assaulted The Ascension and after that, JBL
would give a Clothesline from Hell on Viktor. On the March 30 scene of Raw,
Layfield, alongside Booker T and Michael Cole, were harmed by Brock Lesnar
after Seth Rollins rejected Lesnar his WWE World Heavyweight Championship
rematch.
Taking after the 2016 WWE draft on July 19, WWE
reported on their site that JBL would move to the SmackDown critique group,
joining Mauro Ranallo and David Otunga.
In November 2012, Layfield began facilitating another
show on WWE's YouTube channel close by Michael Cole and Renee Young called The
JBL and Renée Show (in the past known as The JBL Show and The JBL and Cole
Show). The arrangement finished in May 2015.
He likewise runs the site Layfield Report which
highlights an assortment of his perspectives and conclusions in various
articles.
Layfield has showed up as a playable character in
various WWE computer games. His first appearance as a playable character was in
WWF Attitude, with his most recent appearance in WWE 2K16. And in addition
being a playable character in the diversion, in WWE 2K16, Layfield made his
critique debut for the recreations, collaborating with Michael Cole and Jerry
Lawler.
Individual life
His folks are Lavelle Layfield, who is a clergyman,
and Mary Layfield.
Layfield has shown up on the Fox News Channel weekend
business appear, Bulls and Bears. His organization, Layfield Energy, propelled
a beverage called MamaJuana Energy. In March 2009, Layfield Energy turned into
the principle patron and sponsor of Ohio Valley Wrestling, a previous WWE
formative advancement situated in Louisville, Kentucky.
Amid a WWE house show in Munich, Germany right on time
in June 2004, trying to draw heel heat, he gave the group a few Nazi salutes
while goose-venturing around the ring. Such a presentation is illicit in
Germany. In a meeting with The Washington Post, Layfield clarified "I'm an
awful person . Should impel the group. I've done it for a
considerable length of time. I truly didn't consider anything [the Nazi salute]
– I know how terrible it is, I've lived [in Germany]. I've been to Dachau, seen
those spots where they annihilated a huge number of Jews. I adhere to a
meaningful boundary amongst me and my character. That resemble saying Anthony
Hopkins (who depicts Hannibal Lecter) truly appreciates cannibalism".
Layfield wedded his second spouse, Meredith Whitney on
February 11, 2005 in Key West, Florida. He was already hitched to Cindy Womack
on June 6, 1994, however separated later that year.
Titles and achievements
School football
Abilene Christian University
1989 NCAA Division II All–American
Find Wrestling Association
CWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with
Cannonball Grizzly
Worldwide Wrestling Federation
GWF Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Bobby
Duncum Jr. (1) and Black Bart (1)
Worldwide Wrestling Institute and Museum
Lou Thesz Award (2012)
Memphis Championship Wrestling
MCW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with
Faarooq
NWA Texas
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ron
Simmons
Expert Wrestling Illustrated
PWI positioned him #5 of the 500 best singles
wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2005[115]
PWI positioned him #496 of the best 500 singles
wrestlers ever in the PWI Years in 2003
Joined States Wrestling Federation
USWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with The
Equalizer
World Wrestling
Federation/Entertainment/WWE
WWE Championship (1 time)
WWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
WWE United States Championship (1 time)
WWF European Championship (1 time)
WWE Hardcore Championship (17 times)
WWF Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Faarooq
Twentieth Triple Crown Champion
Eleventh Grand Slam Champion
Slammy Award for Favorite Web Show of the Year (2013)
– with Michael Cole and Renee Young for The JBL and Cole Show
Best Gimmick (2004)
Most exceedingly awful Television Announcer (2014,
2015)
Most exceedingly awful Worked Match of the Year (2002)
with Trish Stratus versus Christopher Nowinski and Jackie Gayda on Raw, July 7
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