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Channel: Wrestling Channel with Alan Magnetti · 2017 · Entertainment

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BREAKING NEWS:
WWE fans this week are demanding that SmackDown Live commentator John “Bradshaw” Layfield, a.k.a. JBL, be fired after a number of allegations of workplace harassment have surfaced.

This was all sparked by the release of a new book by Justin Roberts and by the apparent departure of SmackDown Live commentator Mauro Ranallo, and in the past week, a number of old and new stories about JBL have been spread across the Internet.

A lot of accusations are getting thrown around, but how many of them are actually true? What do we know for sure about JBL’s behavior backstage? Here’s a look at all of the allegations so far.

In His Book, Justin Roberts Alleges That JBL Constantly Harassed Him Backstage

Former WWE commentator Justin Roberts recently released a book called Best Seat in the House, which tells the story of his 12-year WWE career. In it, Roberts says that JBL and others constantly bullied and harassed him backstage, saying that JBL would throw his bags around and call him names.

“[E]very day I saw him, he asked me why I was still alive and told me to go kill myself,” Roberts says in the book.

Roberts also alleges that there was an incident in which JBL was being interviewed by a high school kid, and when the high-schooler dropped his notes during the interview, JBL asked the child’s mother if she had any children who were not mentally challenged.

Roberts expanded on all of this in his Reddit Ask Me Anything, saying that JBL “terrorized” people backstage.

“He terrorized me, and a lot of guys,” Roberts said. “He’d make life hell for a lot of guys. He chewed Miz and Morrison out after they won the titles for not celebrating enough.”

Roberts talks about bullying from people other than JBL in the book as well, in general painting a picture of a total madhouse and toxic work environment.

Justin Roberts Says His Passport Was Stolen Backstage Once & Johnny Mundo Has Since Suggested That JBL Was Responsible

One element of the JBL bullying saga that’s been a bit confusing is the incident surrounding Justin Roberts’ passport.

In his book, Best Seat in the House, Roberts says that while he was working for the WWE and was on tour in the U.K., someone stole his passport out of his bag. A lot of WWE fans have just assumed that JBL is the one who took it, but Roberts did not actually accuse him of that in the book. Rather, Roberts doesn’t name a specific person as being responsible for the passport theft, and it sounds like he never found out who it was.

In his Reddit Ask Me Anything, Roberts simply writes, “My passport out of my bag, and the next tour I guarded it with my life. On the flight back, Orlando Jordan told me he would watch my back and I should go to the gift shop. I didn’t take his advice.”

But retired wrestler Johnny Mundo recently suggested that JBL was probably the one behind this, as he says that JBL once told him to steal Roberts’ passport out of his bag.

“JBL was one of the main event guys at the time, and I don’t remember exactly what Justin Roberts did to become the target for the hazing of this specific oversea trip, but JBL asked me and Joey to snag Justin’s passport,” Mundo told Deadspin.

However, Mundo says that he didn’t actually steal Roberts’ passport as JBL encouraged him to do.

Roberts also told Deadspin that he was once in a meeting with Vince McMahon himself in which McMahon jokingly referenced the passport incident as if it were not a serious matter.

“I was sitting in the production meeting, Vince [McMahon] is running the meeting, and when it ends, he’s the first to leave,” Roberts told Deadspin. “I was sitting there, and as he walked by me, he just whispered to me: ‘Don’t forget your passport! Ha-haa!’ and walked away. That’s when I knew there was no sympathy in that company. This stuff is encouraged.”

On Twitter this week, JBL said he did not steal Roberts’ passport, adding that Roberts is an idiot who everyone hated.

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