"It was unprofessional" - JBL on his real-life confrontation with WWE Hall of Famer

John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL) recently admitted he was wrong to yell at Tully Blanchard when the wrestling legend returned to WWE as a producer.

In the mid-2000s, Blanchard briefly worked for WWE in a backstage position. Upon his return to the company, the current AEW manager was confronted by JBL, who was one of WWE’s top stars at the time.

Speaking in a Q&A on his YouTube channel, JBL explained that he felt aggrieved about the way Blanchard treated him earlier in his career:

“I had heat with Tully from an old event. Tully doesn’t even remember it from what I’ve seen. I thought he was disrespectful to me, and I carried, stupidly, a lot of anger toward Tully for years. I saw him for the first time in WWE and I just exploded. It was unprofessional, it shouldn’t have happened. It shouldn’t have happened there. I should have just pulled Tully aside,” he said.

A member of the legendary Four Horsemen faction, Blanchard made his wrestling debut in 1975. The 67-year-old was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012 alongside Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, J.J. Dillon, and Ric Flair.

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JBL later apologized to Tully Blanchard

While JBL still appears sporadically on WWE programming, Tully Blanchard joined AEW in 2019 as an on-screen manager.

JBL further clarified that he was wrong to act the way he did towards Blanchard, which is why he later apologized to the former WWE Tag Team Champion:

“It’s one of those things where you let stuff fester and it builds up over the years, but I handled it completely wrong, and for that I told Tully later I was sorry for the whole thing. And I am because I shouldn’t have handled it that way. I should have just pulled him aside and talked to him,” he said.

JBL added that, as far as he knows, there is no longer an issue between himself and Blanchard.

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