It has been confirmed that WWE Hall of Famer JBL was spotted on an installment of Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard, discussing various topics and offering advice for wrestlers leaving a company.
JBL said, “Kerry Von Erich used to always tell me, he said, ‘I want to come back as a carpenter so I can repair all the bridges that I’ve blown up.’ Because Kerry didn’t burn them; he blew them up. Notably, that’s what numerous these guys are doing. In a separate but related matter, but it certainly is not a way to keep an amicable relationship with guys when you’re throwing them under the bus when you’re leaving, i don’t know if Aleister is burning this bridge or not. My father used to always tell me, ‘When it’s time to leave grab your hat, shake their hand. Just walk out.’ That’s all you need to do, and that’s the advice that I would give these guys: shake their hand and walk out. There aren’t that many bridges to cross.
There aren’t that many places to make it in sports entertainment, you think about what’s out there. If you’ve alienated Tony Khan — and I don’t know if he has or not — but if you alienate Triple H and Nick Khan, that’s WWE. I don’t know why you would want to do that. Just leave.. Meanwhile, I get that you’re mad. Don’t do interviews when you’re mad, and nothing impressive ever comes of it. All it comes across as is that you’re bitter.”
On how comments get clipped online: “Let me explain this: you may be bitter for a remarkably solid reason. You may be justified in your bitterness, although when you express that out on the internet — and again, I’m an veteran man saying ‘out on the internet.’ But when you express that on the internet through a podcast or whatever you do — it comes across wrong and it just comes across that you have sour grapes. You’re mad about it and people don’t take that well, because what people will see is what people clip out. They’ll clip out something that’s kind of close. And you know coupled with I do Conrad, what people clip out is not what you say most of the time. It’s all clickbait. On a related note, they’re going to say, ‘Well, here’s Aleister Black and Triple H,’ or whatever they want to say. In a separate but related matter, that’s the headline. They’re going to see that without clicking on it to figure out that maybe he didn’t say what the headline says.” — and if there are people out there in WWE.
On having fewer places to work than the territory days:
“I just don’t think anything strong comes of it. I think when you leave like that, just leave. Shake their hand, tell them, ‘I’ll be back,’ and then come back and figure out a way to do what you want to do. It's worth noting that because there aren’t that many bridges out there. You’re not going to go and make a ton of money somewhere else. Furthermore, there aren’t that many places to work. You’re not going to make a ton of money in Mexico; you’re not going to make a ton of money in Europe. You’re not going to make a ton of money in Japan. Back in the ’70s, the late ’80s, and the early ’90s, you could leave a territory. Burn a bridge as much as you wanted to and go somewhere else, and they’d bring you back because they had to. They don’t have to now.”
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