10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About JBL

6. Stealing Justin Roberts's Passport

John Cena JBL Judgement Day 2005
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By now, you're probably sensing a pattern - JBL will pick on anybody, but he really loves to torture non-wrestlers who couldn't possibly fight back against him. Case in point: Justin Roberts, who worked for WWE as a ring announcer from 2002 to 2014 and described JBL's bullying as "pure evil."

According to Roberts, JBL routinely told him to kill himself, asking him why he was still alive. He also would throw Roberts's luggage off tour buses, and in what was probably the most frustrating incident, he was responsible for orchestrating the theft of Roberts's passport on a European tour. Being without a passport while traveling internationally was obviously a nightmare for Roberts, but for JBL, it was just another joke he pulled off to amuse himself.

JBL denied that he was responsible (tweeting in classy fashion earlier this month "I won't answer Net rumors-but I didn't take Justin Roberts passport. Could have been anyone/he was hated by the whole crew. He's an idiot."), but John Morrison had gone on record as stating that Layfield asked him and Joey Mercury to steal the passport, and they ultimately decided not to.

That, of course, led to bullying for MNM, as well.

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