A WWE legend has revealed scrapped in-ring return plans following a creative disagreement.
It has been over a decade since WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield last competed inside a wrestling ring for a major promotion, with his last WWE match being a brief cameo in the 2014 Royal Rumble Match.
However, a JBL in-ring return seemed to potentially be on the horizon following a string of appearances on the independent scene, as well as in TNA and AAA – with JBL laying out stars with Clothelines for the first time in may years.
Speaking with TMZ Inside The Ring, JBL was asked about a potential in-ring return, to which the former WWE Champion revealed details regarding scrapped plans to do just that in TNA.
Citing a change in creative leadership as the reason his TNA in-ring appearance didn’t pan out, JBL said:
“Yeah, you know I was gonna do it last year and it didn’t work out. I was gonna do something in TNA and it didn’t work out.
“They had a creative change and I didn’t like what the creative was, I didn’t think it was good for business, good for me or anything, so I told them I’m not really interested in doing it, so I walked out of it.
“I still have a good relationship with them, the guy who made the creative change got fired about a week or two later and then WWE partnered with them so it never came back to fruition.”
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JBL then revealed that he was also going to “do something” in AAA, but WWE’s purchase of the company put an end to that as well:
“But yeah I was gonna do something in TNA and I was gonna do something in AAA in Mexico and then all of a sudden WWE buys them.
“They made me a commentator so, I’m glad they kept me but they took me out of the ring. Maybe that was a hint to me.”
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The WWE Hall of Famer then discussed his current in-ring training with Jody Malenko and Gerald Briscoe, admitting that he’s just having fun, rather than knowing exactly what it will lead to:
Jody Malenko is the great (Boris) Malenko’s son, Dean Malenko’s brother and one of the number one students of Karl Gotch possibly, a lot of people agree, the greatest shooter of all-time and Jody’s been helping me train, so has Mr. Briscoe.
I’ve got a whole garage set up out there with mats and suplex dummies and Persian clubs. I’m having a blast, I’m 59 years old just having fun training. Not sure where’s it’s gonna go, we kind of have an idea but we’re just having a lot of fun.
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