JBL Dismisses Criticism Of Road Dogg’s Creative, Says He Did An Excellent Job
JBL dismisses criticism of Road Dogg.
Dogg surprised fans when he departed from the company earlier this year. Reactions were all over the place when the news broke, but a number of prominent figures in the industry stood up for the 20+ year veteran.
During a recent Q&A session for Something To Wrestle, JBL was asked about the reactions to Road Dogg’s creative tenure on SmackDown and some of the clips that circulated of him on WWE Unreal.
“These guys that are out there, they’re talking about Road Dogg didn’t go a good job, man fuck you. It’s just bullshit. These guys are selling out arenas all over the world, making more money — we never dreamed that people would make money like this. Road Dogg was one of the guys behind it.”
Layfield went on to talk about the difficulty of live television.
“I can tell you all of the things that Vince failed with. I can also tell you that Vince bought a company from his father for a million dollars and sold it for $9.3B and somehow retrained control. That’s Game Of Thrones shit. But do you fail a lot? Absolutely. When you got 52 weeks a year live, no reruns, do you think you’re going to make some mistakes? I would hope so because if you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying. This isn’t a TV episode show where you can do 13 episodes and you film it, you put it in a can and then if you don’t like it, you go back and edit it. This is live. You’re talking about people who may or may not deliver what you’re thinking they’re going to deliver. Sometimes they do something that is not what they’re supposed to do. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. If it doesn’t work, you get the blame for that too. There’s a lot of things going on.”
Talking about the easy nature of AAA, Layfield said that it’s not the same business.
“I love AAA and I love working down there, I think it’s the hottest show in the world right now. It’s a lot easier what they’re doing, when you’re filming an hour a week and you’ve got great stars as compared to filming 50 hours a week or whatever WWE does. You’ve got great stars there too, but it’s just — it’s not even hardly the same business. It’s tough to do what they’ve done. I think Road Dogg did an excellent job. Those guys who are complaining about it, man, fuck you.”
Earlier this month, Road Dogg made headlines when he said that WWE now feels like a money grab. Check out his full comments here.
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