After that video aired, that’s when we started seeing crowds increase. Without that, it would’ve been a one-and-done. That’s the whole thing that made the character. And filming it like it was a security camera filming it, so it looked like it was legit. And Eddie and his brother Chavo came up with the idea of giving his mother a heart attack in El Paso. They still saw me as the APA and they still saw me as this guy was Ron Simmons. And I’m happy with what happened.’ They called me out of the blue and said, ‘hey, we need somebody to face Eddie in about six-seven weeks in the Staples Center and the character didn’t work right away. I thought, ‘you know, that’s okay, I had a good career, I got to tag with Ron for a number of years. I had two hernias operations, I really thought I was done. When the day the character debuted, I thought I had pretty much retired. ![]() It was, ‘let’s wait and see what happens.’”Įddie Guerrero helped the reign a lot by pitching the angle of his mother’s heart attack after the sudden character change didn’t initially work: “It was all Eddie Guerrero. But he wasn’t like, super like, ‘hey this is our guy who’s going to be a champion for a long time,’ either. ![]() So you know, and like that, Pat was not against me. And I said, ‘thanks Pat.’ He goes, ‘I hope it works out for ya.’ And I just kind of remember thinking, ‘you know, this is a one-off if this match doesn’t work.’ And I knew it was. I know before that first match in the Staples Center, Pat Patterson came by and goes, ‘hey, hey, have a good one out there, kid’. I just don’t think a lot of people were for it. So it was just kind of, ‘hey, let’s try to this’. ![]() You needed a guy to go against Eddie Guerrero. You know, you needed a character at that time. As a guest on The Angle Podcast, JBL talked about his long reign as WWE Champion and how much Eddie Guerrero helped his success.ĭue to the SmackDown landscape back in 2004, nobody was really against the JBL experiment: “I don’t think there’s anybody against it, but I don’t think there are a lot of people for it.
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