![]() I'm that close to her and I'm thinking, 'this woman has just had a heart attack.' It was that good," he said. You know, she was I think 74 years old at the time. What she was doing, she was, she grabbed my hand and guided herself down, that way she could fall. You know, I reached like I was, put my hand on her. "I'm four feet from his mother or closer, about arm's length away. JBL said that the police actually told him not to stay in El Paso because of the heat he head at the time. JBL reflected on feuding with Eddie's mom as well. But it was all because of Eddie and his brother Chavo coming up with that idea." That's when ticket sales started selling, we ended up selling out, we don't if we could sell tickets to the Staples Center, we ended up selling, I believe at the time, an attendance record at the Staples Center. 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. He believes that Eddie was crucial in getting over his JBL gimmick due to the storyline that they had together. JBL also spoke about Eddie Guerrero, who he feuded with over that title. It was, 'let's wait and see what happens.'" 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. "I don't think there's anybody against it, but I don't think there are a lot of people for it," JBL said.
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