Retired wrestler JBL was interviewed at-length by the Bermuda Sun discussing his wrestling career. Included was an item on JBL disagreeing with WWE CEO Vince McMahon about the inspiration for his rich-man character. “Vince McMahon will deny this because he didn’t see any parallel with the J.R. Ewing character (from “Dallas”), but in my mind it was a J.R. Ewing character. It was my idea,” JBL said. He noted McMahon wanted him to remain a babyface at the time when he debuted the character, but “a confluence of factors happened. Big Show got hurt, The Undertaker got hurt and Brock Lesnar left the company and they needed a guy to face Eddie Guerrero. Vince asked me if I wanted to do the JBL character and I said, ‘I’d love to and said let’s give it a whirl.’”
You can read JBL’s full interview at BermudaSun.com
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