JBL - all new time low to get heat

Ph3n0m

In their recent tour of Germany, JBL gave the infamous "Heil Hitler" salute - a salute that is banned in Germany, apparantly, and also lets the German governement punish foriegn nationals who do this.

If this is true a) a new low for WWE in getting heat, b) apparantly it wasnt scripted so well done JBL, you prove you are a retard yet again and c) whilst any good idea to generate heat is normally done tastefully or within the modicum of respect - this is definitely something that JBL will probably "brag" or claim was " blown out of all proportion"


JBL - another idiot for 2004?

Gonzo

a complete fool as always is Mr.JBL

John Bradshaw Layfield reportedly caused a stir at this weekend's "Passport to Pain" show in Munich, Germany. JBL did a Nazi salute in the ring and goose stepped to get heat from the crowd, and a fan who took it to heart ended up ejected from the arena for trying to attack the wrestler. This is illegal in Germany, but no word as of yet on any legal repurcussions towards JBL or WWE.

Hanza

In the intrest of fairness. I hope he gets fired for this. What a dik!

They have fired far better talent for less. Get rid of him, at least fine him to hell...

Lordz

Christ,what a ferocious langer

Fozzy

That's just stupid. I heard a few weeks ago of someone being fired from their job in Germany for making a Nazi salute. I sent him an e-mail saying that I disagree with what he did (well, I was a bit more vocal than that!). I've just got a disliking of him that is growing to Triple H proportions.

yami308

While I don't agree with what he did (f-ing stupid if you ask me), what a better way to get heat, especially in Germany! Originally, Fritz Von Erich and Baron Von Rashke among others were billed as nazis, and this was in the 1950's! Eventually, they stopped that billing, but there have been plenty of openly racist characters who probably only did it to catch heat. And besides, it worked didn't it? Even you guys are p*ssed off at him, and you know he did it for heat. This almost definitely isn't a popular point of view, but it's just another way to get people to hate him. Just remember, I said that I don't agree with him so don't blame me, I'm just posting an obvious rebuttal.

Ph3n0m

CNBC officially released John Bradshaw Layfield due to fan complaints over his "heil Hitler" actions at the Munich, Germany show. They called his behavior offensive.

In response to the controversy, Bradshaw told some friends backstage today that he's a heel and that's what heels are supposed to do.

Other wrestlers were extremely horrified and appalled by his actions. Most generally considered what he did to be very offensive and embarrassing for WWE.

Source: PWInsider & 1Wrestling


This does not mean he is gone from wwe.com

Full story here

http://www.nynewsday.com/business/sfl-0608nazigestures,0,4527867.story?coll=nyc-business-headlines

Hanza

Ive never like Bradshaw. I think WWE on and off the camera would be better without him. I really hope that this is the last we see of him.

cruiserweight

Another thing that people are forgetting is that last weekend was the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. As bad as what he did was, the timing could not have been any worse!

Fozzy

I understand the point made about him just being racist as a heel, but I can't think of anyone who was actually "illegally" racist. What I mean is that no wrestler has ever come out and said "I hate that guy cos he's black and I hate all blacks", they just kind of imply it. The thing with Bradshaw is that the Nazi salute is actually illegal in Germany, and it's so close to the feelings of so many people. It's like if a wrestler started slagging your dead mother, you wouldn't be too happy about it. It's the same sort of feeling some of these German's would have felt.

yami308

Hey Fozzy,
Col. DeBeers in the AWA used to say that he wouldn't wrestle certain people because they were black. He was South African, so he did the apartheid heel character. But I can't think of anybody recently doing it.

oneofakind32

Originally posted by yami308
While I don't agree with what he did (f-ing stupid if you ask me), what a better way to get heat, especially in Germany! Originally, Fritz Von Erich and Baron Von Rashke among others were billed as nazis, and this was in the 1950's! Eventually, they stopped that billing, but there have been plenty of openly racist characters who probably only did it to catch heat. And besides, it worked didn't it? Even you guys are p*ssed off at him, and you know he did it for heat. This almost definitely isn't a popular point of view, but it's just another way to get people to hate him. Just remember, I said that I don't agree with him so don't blame me, I'm just posting an obvious rebuttal.

Ironically enough the nazi party had huge following in the US before world war two. 35,000 people attened a nazi rally in MSG before the war brock out.

funky penguin

Originally posted by Fozzy
That's just stupid. I heard a few weeks ago of someone being fired from their job in Germany for making a Nazi salute. I sent him an e-mail saying that I disagree with what he did (well, I was a bit more vocal than that!). I've just got a disliking of him that is growing to Triple H proportions.

I dont recall HHH doing anything as stupid as this.
Although someone will probably point something out.

Magnolia_Fan

Whats the big deal!!??.... how could they outlaw a gesture??, Hitler existed, like it or not..and its not JBL's fault he was such a pr!ck, I personally couldn't do the job JBL does plus his style is of a power house, power houses are slow .JBL is a bad actor as are the majority of WWE stars..why pick on him? And as far as firing him goes, thats stupid he works hard plus Aston Villa didn't release Mark Bosnich when he did it. That came later when they realised he was a sh!t keeper.

funky penguin

well, JBL is a sh!t wrestler and we realise it now .

Fire the redneck dick.