
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, โI donโt know if youโd call it fun. We got into a fight about nine oโclock 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 didnโt tell me Steve was in a horrible mood. They said, โHey, go mess with Steve.โ So I just thought he was having a bad guy or something. I didnโt 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 didnโt 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, โYou look nice in them shorts there, boy,โ doing the old โDeliveranceโ thing. Guys will take that out of context and make all kinds of things up. Guys did stupid stuff like that back then. We didnโt 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], Iโm like a freaking punching dummy. Iโm like, oh my god. Itโs like nine oโclock in the morning. All of a sudden, I realize Iโm 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, heโd 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 donโt know what he would have done, but it wouldnโt have ended up well for me. I felt bad about it. It was my fault, I deserved every bit of it. I shouldnโt have been messing with him. I didnโt realize he was having such a bad day. Steve and I were friends, Iโd done stuff like that a hundred times. Whatever it was, it was wrong that day, and sh*t happens.โ
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