For many years, JBLs unofficial job at WWE was beating the crap out of people. Sometimes (as during the Dudley Boys debut), he was asked by Vince McMahon to do this. Sometimes, he did it in the service of the wrestlers court and sometimes (a lot of times, if honesty is a factor anywhere in pro wrestling), it was because JBL is a bully and, well, kind of an @$$hole. As a worker, JBL was a big, stiff guy who could practically behead anybody he wanted to with his patented Clothesline From Hell finisher. Aside from that, he was a pretty lousy wrestler, all things considered. However, he was enormously over backstage and, when WWE was faced with a talent exodus in the mid to late noughties, JBL, despite never really gaining much in the way of audience appeal, stepped up to the main event scene. His big, uncompromising powerhouse moves often looked painful on TV (especially when he was demolishing fresh-faced rookies in the ring for real), but you could probably bet good money that they were even more painful in real life than they were ever intended to be as part of the show. For their part, The Nasty Boys are notoriously sloppy workers and both are well known for legitimately hurting their opponents. In some respects, this pair were hardcore before hardcore was a thing, in the same way that Terry Funk and Harley Race were, but that, my friends, is where the similarity ends! If there were an award for the sloppiest, most painful looking tag team of them all, it would have to go to The Nasties no questions asked! Theyre fun to watch, no doubt, but you wouldnt want to get in the ring with them!
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