JBL has stated unequivocally that the firing of another announcer by WWE was not his fault. John Bradshaw Layfield was a professional wrestler who spent more than two decades in the ring. He was a former WWE Champion and Tag Team Champion and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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Layfield would go on to have a long career as an announcer from 2011 to 2017 after retiring from wrestling in 2009. He maintained his heel persona as an announcer because he spent the majority of his JBL career as a wrestler.
It was mentioned on an old episode of
Bring it to the Table on the WWE Network that Mauro Ranallo, another WWE announcer, was named the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Best Announcer in professional wrestling. Layfield went on a tirade as a result, and Ranallo was removed from television soon after. At the time, there was conjecture that Layfield's remarks had a negative impact on Ranallo and that JBL was to blame for Ranallo's removal from television.
JBL clarified that his remarks did not result in Ranallo's departure during an episode of the Something to Wrestle podcast concerning his career as a WWE announcer.
“I’m a heel commentator. I did this rant on Bring It to the Table, which literally was a one hundred percent work about a poll that I had never seen before. Certainly wasn’t upset about it. Well, then, all of a sudden, all this stuff came out that I ran off Mauro Ranallo out of WWE, which WWE, to my benefit, did a big, long study about why Mauro left, internal, from what they told me. My name was never mentioned in it.”
As he continued, Layfield spoke about an interaction he had with Mauro.
“I saw Mauro later. We were in New Orleans. I went across the street, I saw him, I shook his hand just to let him know that there were certainly no hard feelings from me to him. He got me UFC tickets before. I think Conor McGregor in Vegas. Really nice of him.
I thought we were, I don’t know about friends, but decent acquaintances is what I thought. To my knowledge, I never did anything mean to Mauro and I didn’t think we had a bad relationship.”
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