JBL comments /Howard Stern on JBL

[Joe Kerr]

Howard Stern commented on the Bradshaw controversy and while he was commenting on it, he got several bits of information wrong. Stern went on to mention that wrestling is big in other places besides America and said obviously there are idiots everywhere who follow it (thanks Stern).

- He then started to tell the story and mention that Layfield wrestles under the name "Eddie Guerrero" and that he is a bad guy that riles up the crowd. He then described what he did in Germany and how it got him fired from CNBC as a financial analyst (which they joked about obviously). He then took up Layfield’s side and said that what he did was scripted because everything in wrestling is scripted (wrong again) and that he should not be held accountable because he is an actor who went by WWE's script. Stern was later told that he was wrestling Eddie Guerrero and that his name is Bradshaw.

- Obviously, the WWE did not tell Bradshaw to do what he did in Munich. It was his choice to do it. Had he been told to go out there and salute Hitler, Stern would have made a valid point.


Today's Washington Post has a story on John Bradshaw Layfield's Nazi salute in Munich this past weekend. It's a very good read with quotes from Bradshaw about the incident.

"They hung me out to dry," Layfield told The TV Column.

"I was playing a character. It's the same as Vin Diesel playing a Nazi."

Layfield insists he's not an anti-Semite and says he made the gestures to incite the German audience to root for his opponent, Eddie Guerrero, during the Munich match.

"I'm a bad guy [on WWE]. I'm supposed to incite the crowd. I've done [the Nazi gestures] for decades. I really didn't think anything of it -- I know how bad it is, I've lived [in Germany]. I've been to Dachau, seen those places where they exterminated millions of Jews."

To read the story, visit washingtonpost.com/wp-