Was JBL underrated during his championship run

Was he underrated as champion.


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JBL was one of the best pure heels of that entire generation, and to this date. Dude was absolutely reprehensible...did nothing to be liked, and you REALLY wanted him to lose.

Posted this a few times before but this



is one of the best RAW moments ever :russ:

That entrance is still one of the funniest things I've seen in wrestling. Man spent 6 months of the pyro budget just to piss these people off. :deadrose:

Clothesline From Hell still one of the best finishers in the game and really exemplifies JBL: it's a simple, basic even, thing that's made effective thanks to delivery and presentation.
 

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JBL was straight trash for a few reasons but before I get into that I will give him his props. That whole "wrestling god" shyt he used to do was trolling before trolling was trolling and I was always entertained by it.

The main reason JBL is trash is because he was playing the cowardly heel role while being 6'6 and all of his opponents significantly smaller than him. Also he used to beat the living shyt out of people in the APA. What changed? It just wasn't believable.
 

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It's also important to point out that JBL wasn't even supposed to be champion at that time. The plan was for Eddie Guerrero to drop the belt at SummerSlam to Kurt Angle, who would then hold it til WM 21 and drop it to Cena.

The problem was that Eddie didn't want to be champion anymore. The pressure was getting to him in a big way around that time, as he was looked at to the top guy to carry Smackdown. And ratings/numbers were down when he was champ. So he told the office that he didn't want be WWE champ anymore, and actually lobbied for JBL to get the title. Remember, they were good friends in real life. It also helped that both Angle and Big Show were out with injuries plus Brock was gone, so there were no credible heels available at the time.

So JBL getting the title was an instance of being in the right place at the right time. And to his credit, he took the ball and ran with it. So while I didn't like his reign at the time, he made the most of it so I gotta give him alot of props looking back at it
 

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JBL was one of the best pure heels of that entire generation, and to this date. Dude was absolutely reprehensible...did nothing to be liked, and you REALLY wanted him to lose.

Posted this a few times before but this



is one of the best RAW moments ever :russ:

Perfect way to describe him, nowadays you like heels cause they got the factor but JBL was a pure, true heel, not a single thing about him you can like. Modern day proud boy in a rich man gimmick.
 

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JBL was straight trash for a few reasons but before I get into that I will give him his props. That whole "wrestling god" shyt he used to do was trolling before trolling was trolling and I was always entertained by it.

The main reason JBL is trash is because he was playing the cowardly heel role while being 6'6 and all of his opponents significantly smaller than him. Also he used to beat the living shyt out of people in the APA. What changed? It just wasn't believable.
NGL that made me hate him even more :mjlol: dude was a straight hoe even tho he was capable of beating everybody ass
 

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JBL was straight trash for a few reasons but before I get into that I will give him his props. That whole "wrestling god" shyt he used to do was trolling before trolling was trolling and I was always entertained by it.

The main reason JBL is trash is because he was playing the cowardly heel role while being 6'6 and all of his opponents significantly smaller than him. Also he used to beat the living shyt out of people in the APA. What changed? It just wasn't believable.
I came in here to say the same thing. Can’t suddenly promote a career tag team guy to main event heel status and have 100% of his title defenses in his first run as champ end with “third party interferes in the match and costs the other guy the match which has nothing to do with him and renders him a complete afterthought”, especially when taker and big show were the only guys he faced he was smaller than. He didn’t have a single match in that run where he looked like a dominant champion until his wrestlemania loss to Cena where he dominated for the entire match and then loses basically to 1 move.
 

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In hindsight yes but the title reign made JBL. He wasn’t nowhere near over/ready for that belt when he got it.



After the reign ended he was a made man but surprisingly never had another title reign which is crazy.


Actually for Bradshaw to become a champion. When vince usually buried the nwa champion not named flair.
Is the beginning feat Bradshaw pulled off under vince.
Bradshaw politically learned how to play vince game and then win tho. Which was completely rare for a former nwa champion.


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Actually for Bradshaw to become a champion. When vince usually buried the nwa champion not named flair.
Is the beginning feat Bradshaw pulled off under vince.
Bradshaw politically learned how to play vince game and then win tho. Which was completely rare for a former nwa champion.


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You talking about that NWA bs in 98?
 

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You talking about that NWA bs in 98?


Bradshaw was incredible. Before being buried originally after mv8ng from the nwa. It took till apa.
As well as Ron.
another former nwa/wcw champion to sit down and make good.
Even then...
The gimmick was a joke and had no upside whatsoever. Plus was a downshift in content into sheer slapstick. From both performers inring as workers and taken seriously.
Yeah apa was a good gag.
Yet both Bradshaw and Simmons are no goofs. So to even bury them with the wwe joke bullshyt was a slap in the face. Like it was for amy fan of another promotion. To watch vince sign a main eventer and then bury them as a joke. Bradshaw just became a bully stooge of epic horrible proportions. Till it resonates with vince weird I got sumfin on you doggie type push. That eventually Bradshaw became such a stooge. That eventually Bradshaw got the chance to.
of course become a joke character gimmick. That real talk. Was buried after Guerrero went over. As vince made the idea of jbl be such garbage. Jbl had no where to go to. Except be an announcer.
It was another vince long term systemic burial of another promotion champion. Where you do not even know the good this performer used to be. Where vince will put out such a stinker of a product to bury you. That yeah. You may go up the card.
Even main event. To complete nuffin. That is by design from mcmahon. To make it so you never draw again.
That burial.



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