10 Wrestlers Who Were Recklessly Dangerous
7. JBL
John Bradshaw Layfield's crisp white shirt soaked in crimson at the very end of 2005's glorious ECW One Night Stand wasn't as a result of the mouthy Texan getting his comeuppance from the hardcore crew forced to absorb his verbals in the weeks leading up to their big event or on the night itself. He'd been far more than just a dissenting voice - his physical disdain had left The Blue Meanie's nose separate from the rest of his face following a deeply cynical assault.
The show was set to end with a mass brawl ultimately won by the natives to trigger the arrival of Stone Cold Steve Austin for a beer bash. Long before 'The Rattlesnake' could crack some cans together though, JBL was cracking Meanie's face with a barrage of very real right hands. Others were lucky they weren't pinged by the violent spring-back of his elbow.
Allowing a personal grudge to manifest itself in a professional setting was the sort of ultimate no-no a lesser-tenured star would have been fired for. Layfield suffered no such grief for the act, and even agreed to lay down for Meanie and his bWo cronies on a follow-up SmackDown in a rather laughable coda to the entire situation.