10 Times WWE Babyfaces Were Heels Backstage
5. JBL
Perhaps the most famous ribber/hazer/complete sh*thouse (delete as appropriate), JBL's latter-day reinvention as a billionaire bully was another case of WWE giving a guy an elevated version of their real self to get the best out of them. But it was as a cowboy barroom bell-end in which one of his more infamous ribs went down in 1998.
Barely birthed on television that year, Adam Copeland was still keeping his mouth shut and ears open as instructed when he heard Layfield approaching him in the showers.
According to the anecdote documented in his 2004 autobiography, Edge found himself caressed and confused by a JBL performing what was apparently one of his routine ribs. Wise to wrestling's hideous underbelly, the future 'Rated-R Superstar' didn't offer any particular type of response. He knew that by 'no-selling' the situation, he'd earned the respect of the locker room by self-appointed security guard Layfield.
Suggesting that he tested this stunt out on any other members of the roster would be purely speculative, but many wrestling ribs have a particularly rich history of repetition throughout the years. It may have been a proving ground other experienced but failed to ever report.