JBL Recalls Getting Into Fight With Steve Blackman At An Airport Baggage Claim

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WWE Hall of Famer JBL appeared on Something To Wrestle With, where he talked about a number of topics including getting into a real life fight with Steve Blackman at an airport baggage claim during WWE’s Attitude Era.

JBL said, โ€œI donโ€™t know if youโ€™d call it fun. We got into a fight about nine oโ€™clock in the morning at the Kansas City airport baggage claim. We sure did. What happened was, Steve had migraine headaches. I think this is what led up to it because there were a couple of guys that were huge Hall of Famers that had messed with Steve on the flight, and Steve was trying to sleep. They didnโ€™t tell me Steve was in a horrible mood. They said, โ€˜Hey, go mess with Steve.โ€™ So I just thought he was having a bad guy or something. I didnโ€™t realize how bad it was. So they had kept him awake or something like that, kept him up on the flight. He had this migraine headaches, and he was in a terrible mood. I didnโ€™t know that, they were setting me up. Which I would have done to somebody else. [Laughs] Steve was sitting there in shorts or something. I walked up and I pinched him on the butt. I said, โ€˜You look nice in them shorts there, boy,โ€™ doing the old โ€˜Deliveranceโ€™ thing. Guys will take that out of context and make all kinds of things up. Guys did stupid stuff like that back then. We didnโ€™t have the internet, we were bored. Steve backhands me and hits me about six or seven times before I could freaking move. I mean [laughs], Iโ€™m like a freaking punching dummy. Iโ€™m like, oh my god. Itโ€™s like nine oโ€™clock in the morning. All of a sudden, I realize Iโ€™m in a freaking fight. Thank god, in the middle of it, he steps back to kick me, and he stuck his foot into a bag at baggage claim. Thank god, heโ€™d have broke whatever he kicked. So then we get into a pretty good scuffle on top of the moving carousel, on top of this 60-or-70-year-old guy. [Ken] was on the phone, he was the one that came over and broke it up [laughs]. So yeah, we had a pretty good kerfuffle. Thank god he stepped in that bag. I donโ€™t know what he would have done, but it wouldnโ€™t have ended up well for me. I felt bad about it. It was my fault, I deserved every bit of it. I shouldnโ€™t have been messing with him. I didnโ€™t realize he was having such a bad day. Steve and I were friends, Iโ€™d done stuff like that a hundred times. Whatever it was, it was wrong that day, and sh*t happens.โ€

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