John Layfield

Known for ActingBorn 1966-11-29 (age 59)Sweetwater, Texas, USA

John Charles Layfield is an American retired professional wrestler and current wrestling commentator/host for WWE, where he performs under the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL). Outside of his WWE work, Layfield is a financial analyst for Fox News. Within WWE, he was previously known by the ring name Bradshaw, and prior to that, the variations Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw and Blackjack Bradshaw (as half of The New Blackjacks with Blackjack Windham). As JBL, Layfield was WWE Champion for 280 days. Layfield's main gimmick as JBL—a wealthy, gladhanding, big-mouthed, fiery-tempered businessman—was based on Layfield's real-life accomplishments as a stock market investor. Layfield is a guest panelist on Fox News Channel's The Cost of Freedom, has appeared on CNBC, and has written a best-selling book on financial planning called Have More Money Now. Layfield also hosts a weekend talk radio program, syndicated nationally by Talk Radio Network, in which he discusses his conservative political views. Layfield is also employed by Northeast Securities as its Senior Vice President. In WWE, Layfield won 24 total championships including one reign as WWE Champion, one reign as United States Champion, one reign as European Champion, seventeen reigns as Hardcore Champion, one reign as Intercontinental Champion, and three reigns as World Tag Team Champion with Faarooq as part of the Acolytes Protection Agency (APA). He is also recognized as the twentieth Triple Crown Champion, and the Sports Illustrated has said that Layfield "has been accused for years of being a locker room bully", while Deadspin wrote that "backstage tales of Layfield's hazing and bullying have long been legend among hardcore wrestling fans."[136] Dayton Daily News described that "YouTube has dozens of interviews where former [WWE] performers discuss harassment, bullying and taking real blows from Layfield while wrestling him in supposedly choreographed matches." Le Journal de Montréal listed Mark Henry, Matt Hardy, René Duprée, Daivari, and Ivory, among others, as wrestlers who in interviews described Layfield as a bully.In 2010, The Miz referenced Layfield in an onscreen promo about hazing he faced in the locker room early in his career. Layfield admitted to hazing Miz and said that he did not regret doing so. In April 2017, WWE commentator Mauro Ranallo took an absence from WWE, which Dave Meltzer reported had been triggered by hostilities with Layfield. The allegations coincided with the release of former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts' autobiography, in which he alleged that Layfield encouraged Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury to steal his passport. Angered WWE fans subsequently called on WWE to fire Layfield. On April 22, Newsweek reported that Ranallo and WWE "mutually agreed to part ways", and Ranallo released a statement in which he said his departure had "nothing to do with JBL" after liking tweets that implied JBL was the main reason. Layfield released a statement of his own, stating: "Admittedly, I took part in locker room pranks that existed within the industry years ago. WWE addressed my behavior and I responded accordingly, yet my past is being brought up because of recent unfounded rumors. I apologize if anything I said playing ‘the bad guy’ on a TV show was misconstrued.Read more

Movies & web series

John Cena's Greatest Rivalries

WWE Untold

The History of The WWE Hardcore Championship

WWE Tribute to the Troops 2014

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 2

WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 3

WWE: The Best of SmackDown - 10th Anniversary, 1999-2009

WWE: Satan's Prison - The Anthology of the Elimination Chamber

WWE: Viva La Raza - The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero

WWE Tribute to the Troops 2005

The Best of WWE

WWE Backlash: In Your House

WWE: The U.S. Championship: A Legacy of Greatness

WWE: Ring in the Holiday

WWE Over the Edge: In Your House

Trish & Lita – Best Friends, Better Rivals

WWE: World's Strongest Man: The Mark Henry Story

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2

WWE/AAA Worlds Collide 2025: Las Vegas

WWE: Undertaker 20-0 - The Streak

WWE WrestleMania X-Seven

WWE Hall of Fame 2023

WWE Survivor Series 2005

ECW One Night Stand 2005

WWE Vengeance 2003

WWF Fully Loaded 2000

WWE Survivor Series 2004

WWE SummerSlam 2004

WWE Survivor Series 1997

WWE Survivor Series 1999

WWE SummerSlam 2001

WWE In Your House 10: Mind Games

WWE Insurrextion 2001

Dark Side of the Ring

WWE WrestleMania 21

WWE WrestleMania 22

WWE WrestleMania XX

WWE One Night Stand 2008

AAA Guerra de Titanes

WWE Saturday Night's Main Event

WWE Wrestlemania X8

WWE WrestleMania XXIV

WWE Backlash 2008

Bipolar Rock 'N Roller

WWE No Mercy 2003

WWE Unforgiven 2008

WWE Cyber Sunday 2008

WWE Survivor Series 2003