JBL Blasts WWE’s ‘Top All-Time Wrestling Villains’ List

Ryan Clark August 18, 2012 2

JBL Blasts WWE’s ‘Top All-Time Wrestling Villains’ List



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John Bradshaw Layfield has posted a new blog in which he complains about WWE’s Top 50 All-Time Wrestling Villains list. He wrote:

I have to say the top 50 greatest heel list by WWE is pretty far off. Forget JBL, I’m too biased to comment on myself, after all who else has had to have a police escort out of a town like I had in El Paso in 2004? That is real heat-and has any heel had any heat like that where folks were actually wanting to kill you since then, but I digress.

The biggest problem I have is with Gorgeous George being #9. I believe he was the greatest heel of all time, he inspired Muhammad Ali and James Brown-this was the guy who set the bar.

Nothing against my pal Hot Rod, I think Roddy was greatest heel of modern era. It is hard to compare eras, so how do you compare Hot Rod to the ‘Toast of the Coast’ The “Sensation of the Nation” the ‘Gorgeous One’. It’s impossible. So any list is arbitrary.

However, putting Gorgeous George #9 is insane. The 4 Horsemen were the greatest faction of all time, you have to have them at the top. There are so many great heels, omitting Bruiser Brody though? Really? Or Stan Hansen? Or William Regal?

Hollywood Hulk Hogan? Give me a break. Hogan was in the top 3 of biggest draws of all time, perhaps the biggest-depends on how you define the Stone Cold era. However, a heel? He wasnt a real heel he was a character. Greatest storyline of all time was the NWO and biggest match of all time was him versus Andre (that was ALL him, and he should get credit for that), but he was never a proper heel-he was still the Hulk, big difference.

Only two heels in the last 20 years needed police escorts out of towns, me and Sgt Slaughter. No one else.

Before that there were many. Hot Rod had heat like a nuclear bomb, he could be greatest heel ever-if the Gorgeous One isn’t and that is a close race.

In the 70s and 80s there were great heels and too many to mention here. Dick Murdoch, my first tag partner, was one of best heels of all time. To put some of these guys on the list and not Captain Redneck? Come on!

Any list is hard to justify, but I gotta say while this one has most of the top 50 in place I would argue the placing itself.

As noted yesterday here on the website, William Regal also wasn’t happy with the list and posted the following on his Twitter: “I’m usually immune to such things but I feel completely kicked in the teeth by whoever wrote that list that I’m not even on it.”


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  • Mark Newbold

    Lots of great points by JBL (I know he sometimes lets himself down but dammit, I just plain like the guy) and leaving regal off – that comment by him is legit, he IS offended at not being included and he well should be, bloody disgraceful that he’s not on there. One of the most overlooked and under-appreciated wrestlers ever who could (at his peak) go toe-to-toe with anyone. Given Austin and HHH are big pals of his, never quite understood why he didn’t get a bigger push, because when he won King of the Ring a few years back he looked set to really get over big time. Ok, maybe he’s not the best physique, and he’s had his issues, but he would make a great heel-champ. And he’s hilarious as well (being brought up just a few miles from where he was born in Tettenhall I just love his sneaky bits of local humour, that must go right over most viewers heads)

  • http://twitter.com/IceLegatus zachary deuxberry

    I had to laugh in irony, I guess that should be the word after reading the Regal article, watching SD and then reading this. I can not help but see that segment from the last SD where Regal was talking about the power he had and then they make him take out the garbage. It seemed to fit this perfectly. I hope when the AJ thing has run its course in the next couple of months that they seriously consider replacing her with Regal.

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