John Bradshaw Layfield was not a fan of taking The Undertaker's Last Ride.
JBL and The Undertaker feuded for the WWE Championship in the latter half of 2004. Undertaker was Bradshaw's first WWE Championship rivalry after his story with Eddie Guerrero concluded, and they would compete in the first-ever Last Ride Match at WWE No Mercy 2004. While Bradshaw would win that match, he would say that taking the actual Last Ride Powerbomb from Undertaker was the most painful finishing move he had ever taken.
He reflected on this during the most recent Something to Wrestle podcast. He even recalled that he was supposed to take the move through a table, but the spot wouldn't go as planned.
"Undertaker's Last Ride. I think a lot of guys have said that; there's something about that. I took Sid's Powerbomb. I've taken a lot of Powerbombs. I've taken a lot of German Suplexes. Something about that Last Ride just hurt. I mean, it just hurt. I guess because he takes you straight up, and you go straight down. I tried to take that through a table one time.
"I think it was at the Meadowlands. I think it was at the No Mercy pay-per-view, and I wanted him to give me that Last Ride from one table through another, and we never could get the balance right on the table. We tried to do it in rehearsal. We just couldn't get it, and they thought it was too unsafe that we might end up spilling out, falling somewhere, which we could have. So I ended up taking a Chokeslam or something from one table through the next. I don't remember what it was, but that Last Ride, man, that thing was stiff."
Another painful move that JBL has been known for, which many people dislike taking, is the Walls of Jericho. Read what Maven and D-Von Dudley have to say about that move.
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