10 Greatest Wrestling Brawlers Of All Time
10. JBL
Anyone who wants to see just how effective a brawler JBL really was needs only to look at the tag team tables match he and Faarooq had against Public Enemy on Sunday Night Heat in 1999. That was a shoot match through and through, and Bradshaw in particular delivered some absolutely brutal shots to those two knuckleheads who apparently refused to do business with the Acolytes.
JBL was not a guy to f**k around, and that's putting it lightly. Unfortunately, it seems like he could be a real pr*** outside of the ring, working stiff against guys he didn't much care for. That Public Enemy incident wasn't exactly a one-time thing.
Still, that shouldn't detract from all of the great matches he put on in the WWE, particularly during his time as one half of the APA.
He's underrated as a brawler, probably because it's just so easy to hate the guy. But regardless of how you feel about his gimmick or his behind-the-scenes douchebaggery, you can't deny that he packed one of the meanest clotheslines since Stan Hansen perfected it all the way back in the '80s.
In a lot of ways, JBL was kind of the second-coming of Hansen's tobacco-chewing, ultra-violent cowboy.