10 Times KARMA WAS REAL In Wrestling
8. JBL Gets Sparked Clean Out
JBL was never the most pleasant individual, by all accounts.
A big obnoxious lad who was very into protecting the sanctity of the business - which seemed to be a thin excuse to indulge his inner sadist - JBL was a self-anointed locker room leader who made sure any newbies learned the warped, ugly etiquette of the pro wrestling locker room.
Edge wrote in his autobiography that JBL, big on hazing, once soaped up his "tush" in the shower. It is said that JBL did this ritually in a bid to "weed out the primadonnas". This threatening, reprehensible act could be vaguely, vaguely justified by JBL and JBL alone in his own ar*ehole head as something he had to do in order to ensure that new wrestlers were aware of their place. Terrorising tenured, long-suffering members of the locker room or broadcasters who weren't even one of "the boys"?
There wasn't even a warped reason for that; it was bullying, nothing less, and JBL himself told Right After Wrestling in 2010 that he made "no apologies" about his hazing "whatsoever".
If he wasn't stealing passports just for the "thrill" of making somebody feeling anxious and scared, he was - per an account from the time in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter - mocking Joey Styles' family. As the story goes, on a trip to Iraq in 2008, JBL was actually on his best behaviour - "very subdued" - and was ribbed on the plane for being a bore. He drank and drank, in order to perform as the panto villain, and poured water over a sleeping Lilian Garcia. He was said to be nasty even by his standards to Styles, whose temper erupted, and when the melee was separated, nobody thought to hold him down. He was in danger; not JBL.
How ironic; with JBL held back, Styles belted him in the face and cut him underneath the eye. It wasn't quite the fairest of fights, but embellished legend portrayed it otherwise.
It was still a source of much embarrassment for JBL, so good.