JBL tells us how his first push was killed by bad ref call.

[Crayo]

WWE announcer JBL has posted a new blog entry at Facebook.com with a backstage story from his first WWE Survivor Series back in 1996. JBL competed in a traditional team elimination match on the “Free For All” pre-show and was eliminated from the match earlier than he was supposed to be due to a botched call from referee Tim White.

JBL wrote on Tuesday:

“My first Survivor Series my team was to go over and it was to be my first big push. It was one of first times refs used ear pieces, or at least, different ear pieces. So, I do a ‘false finish’ and Tim White counts me out! I had kicked out on ’2,’ but Tim was listening to someone in his ear and wasn’t paying attention. He looked up and said, ‘Oh my God, kid, I am so sorry,’ but then had to pantomine he was sending me out of ring.”

“I got to the back and was chewed out, I couldn’t stooge Tim so I just took it-later they realized Tim made a mistake and told me they were sorry. It was my pal Gerald Brisco that had chewed me out as he ran ‘Gorilla’ back then. My push was killed and pretty much so was ‘Justin Hawk Bradshaw,’ but that is a different story-which I’ll tell later. I thought about this today as I was reading some tweets from folks about Survivor Series.”

Here’s a video clip of the spot JBL is talking about. The botched call takes place around the 10:45 mark – and you can hear Vince McMahon and Jim Ross caught off guard by the early elimination of “Justin Hawk Bradshaw” -

Clip he's talking about:



10:45 mark

 

[seabs]

Probably for the best, if he fooked that one up we could have never got to see gawd.

 

[Leo C]

Damn, that's gotta be so bad when you're starting your career. It's very nice that it ended up well though.

 

[Cloud]

Defo a good thing as Justin Hawk Bradshaw does not have the same ring as JBL and that gimmick killed!

This probs a really old thread but just discovered it.

LOL at the ref though so oblivious!