Backstage Confrontation Between JBL & Morrison

[MGH]

Mike Johnson went ahead and posted a non-audio version of it:

As I broke exclusively this morning on the PWInsider.com Elite Audio, there was an incident last night at the Smackdown/ECW taping in Wichita, Kansas stemming from the performances of The Miz and John Morrison on ECW on Sci Fi last night and this Friday's Smackdown.

According to numerous sources, JBL gathered several wrestlers together after the taping ended including Morrison, The Miz, MVP, CM Punk, and Matt Hardy. JBL berated Miz and Morrison for their commentary work on ECW, feeling that their back and forth on the show overshadowed the Punk vs. Jamie Noble match and made Punk look bad going into the Survivor Series PPV. He also ran down the pair for their work during a match against Hardy and MVP that will air this Friday on the CW Network.

As it was explained to me, JBL was basically standing up for the performers he felt had gone out of their way to make Miz and Morrison look good, only for the duo to not hold up their end by doing the same and making everyone involved look poor going into the PPV.

JBL told the two that they needed to apologize to Punk, Hardy and MVP for making them look bad. While Miz was apologetic, Morrison was said to have been angered by JBL's actions, telling the former WWE champion that it wasn't his business to tell Morrison what he was to do. Morrison said that he would apologize but JBL's input had nothing to do with it, cursed at JBL and at one point, physically shoved him away. The shove led to the two going back and forth briefly with John Laurinaitis and other WWE staff separating the two before it could go beyond the shove physically.

[Kae]

JBL's a bully. I know that the business has an unwritten law where the veteran is always right and the newer wrestlers have to take it, and certainly Morrison and the Miz didn't do well on commentary or in the ring, but I still don't think he had a right to call them on it.

[CrazySting]

mightykretzler said:

cenamark21 said:

I'm surprised he lashes out at JBL for expecting an apology but doesn't say a thing to Batista about smurfing his girlfreind.

*facepalm*

I think that if that statement Bats made is indeed true (heck, I'm not sure it IS true), there's pretty much no way the relationship has taken place recently (or in the last two years at least).

Ya know, and call me crazy, but there's a little something known as "chronology."

Batista said it happened after he split with his wife which was last year.

It probably is true becase Dave has no reason to lie, and I have to think Melina would be mad at her reputation getting sullied like that if it were a lie.

[Lionheart]

cenamark21 said:

It probably is true becase Dave has no reason to lie

I would think having people believe you made it with a hot chick who is commonly known to be involved with someone else is a pretty good reason to lie if you're an egocentric douche bag type of person.

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lionheart said:

cenamark21 said:

It probably is true becase Dave has no reason to lie

I would think having people believe you made it with a hot chick who is commonly known to be involved with someone else is a pretty good reason to life if you're an egocentric douche bag type of person.

In terms of established chronology his claims make absolutely no sense. Never heard he was in a relationship with her save for him. And whenever someone's in a relationship with someone, damned if you don't hear about it.

[CrazySting]

mightykretzler said:

lionheart said:

I would think having people believe you made it with a hot chick who is commonly known to be involved with someone else is a pretty good reason to life if you're an egocentric douche bag type of person.

In terms of established chronology his claims make absolutely no sense. Never heard he was in a relationship with her save for him. And whenever someone's in a relationship with someone, damned if you don't hear about it.

There was some talk of him and Melina a while back. Besides the way he talks about it was more a fling than a relationship.

I would think having people believe you made it with a hot chick who is commonly known to be involved with someone else is a pretty good reason to life if you're an egocentric douche bag type of person.

And what about next time he sees her?

Melina: You lied about sleeping with me!

Batista: Um....

If he's going to lie about sleeping with a hot chick it's not going to be someone he's likely to see everytime he goes to work.

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cenamark21 said:

mightykretzler said:

In terms of established chronology his claims make absolutely no sense. Never heard he was in a relationship with her save for him. And whenever someone's in a relationship with someone, damned if you don't hear about it.

There was some talk of him and Melina a while back. Besides the way he talks about it was more a fling than a relationship.

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I sure don't remember hearing of this.

[CrazySting]

mightykretzler said:

cenamark21 said:

mightykretzler said:

In terms of established chronology his claims make absolutely no sense. Never heard he was in a relationship with her save for him. And whenever someone's in a relationship with someone, damned if you don't hear about it.

There was some talk of him and Melina a while back. Besides the way he talks about it was more a fling than a relationship.

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I sure don't remember hearing of this.[/quote]
It was around the time of his fight with Booker. Supposedly Sharmell had heat with Melina and this passed over to Booker/Batista.

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cenamark21 said:

mightykretzler said:

cenamark21 said:

There was some talk of him and Melina a while back. Besides the way he talks about it was more a fling than a relationship.

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I sure don't remember hearing of this.[/quote]
It was around the time of his fight with Booker. Supposedly Sharmell had heat with Melina and this passed over to Booker/Batista.[/quote]

I know that the heat between Melina and Sharmell was pretty much the main reason for her being moved to RAW in the first place, but I don't recall the fight between Booker and Batista to have been related to it.

[HMARK Center]

Sounds like Bradshaw's probably in the right here, but, well, the guy's a renown bully, so I'm sure he could say something thinking he only has the best intentions, and people could take it as an attack.

You build a reputation, you reap what you sow (and maybe Bradshaw really ran Miz and Morrison down; we don't know what anyone said to one another, specifically). Still, by the sounds of it, he was likely in the right to say something.

And I missed the first CM Punk vs. James Gibson match since ROH Redemption?! Damn.

[Mr Captain Falcon]

I was behind Hennigan during Tough Enough, but he's young and needs to learn when to say what and how to not only bury talent, but put them over at the same time. JBL is great at commentating because he's a neutral party. He's a heel who loves Matt Hardy.

If this is true then I'm behind JBL.

[Blindkarevik]

Well... if this isn't true.... oh well, no big deal.

If it is true... a few points.

--- It's nice to see that Morrisson will actually stand up to JBL. Not a lot of people will do that.

--- However, JBL is clearly in the right on this. While I didn't think Morrisson and Miz's commentary was THAT bad... I actually chuckled at parts. It DID do a huge disservice to Punk/Noble. There were times I forgot a match was going on because I was trying to make out what those two were saying... however, the Noble/Punk match itself was very good. Obviously, I can't comment on the Smackdown match... but for the match I saw. JBL is definitely in the right.

--- Although it'll still take a LOT for me to get over the Real World stigma from The Miz. I have to admit, he definitely came across as the more articulate of the two on commentary. And if he takes criticism like JBL's.... decides to man up and apologize. He has the right attitude to make it. Gotta give him props.

[Kash Flagg]

JBL's a good commentator, but he's also buried people in his commentary for no reason whatsoever. It honestly seemed like he hated Miz because he never gave one single positive word about him when he was on Smackdown.

Not saying he's wrong here, cause I don't think he is...but he's also a bit of a hypocrite as well.

[Ace Diamond]

kashflagg said:

JBL's a good commentator, but he's also buried people in his commentary for no reason whatsoever. It honestly seemed like he hated Miz because he never gave one single positive word about him when he was on Smackdown.

Not saying he's wrong here, cause I don't think he is...but he's also a bit of a hypocrite as well.

He did start to give positive marks to Miz's wrestling after a time but still ran down his personality and looks, so it wasn't like he was entirely negative.

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in my opinion JBL is in the right. i may be a bit one-sided because i am a huge JBL mark but still the way the person wrote it (if this is believed to be true) he didnt bully them so much as tell them what they did wrong. maybe he could have said it in a nicer way but still someone had to say it in my opinion. Also it looks like Morrison also threw the first punch when he pushed JBL

[salTy]

steveweiser said:

Morrison has NUCLEAR HEATORRRZZZZZ!11!!!!111

[Dr. T is an alien]

mightykretzler said:

cenamark21 said:

mightykretzler said:

In terms of established chronology his claims make absolutely no sense. Never heard he was in a relationship with her save for him. And whenever someone's in a relationship with someone, damned if you don't hear about it.

There was some talk of him and Melina a while back. Besides the way he talks about it was more a fling than a relationship.

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I sure don't remember hearing of this.[/quote]
Someone that was on the board actually ran into the two of them leaving a hotel lobby together at 2 AM about 1-1.5 years ago. He said that while Melina was signing something for his girlfriend he kind of whispered to Bats, "I thought that you were married", to which Bats said, "Man, we're just friends."

Take from that story what you wish.

[nate5054]

buzzkill said:

Props to Miz for being politically astute and not a moron, if this is true. As the WWE's best commentator, surely JBL is in a position to be able to give them advice on commentary.

If he's their best commentator, WWE has truly lost it in that department.

[wrasslinmachine]

nate505 said:

buzzkill said:

Props to Miz for being politically astute and not a moron, if this is true. As the WWE's best commentator, surely JBL is in a position to be able to give them advice on commentary.

If he's their best commentator, WWE has truly lost it in that department.

I don't see how they lost on that department. JBL is incredibly knowledgable and making fun of Micael Cole is always a plus.

[JMA]

I bet this is true. Why? Because neither wrestler comes off as completely in the right. JBL was bullying, but he was doing it in defense of others--IWC favorites too. While Morrison stood up for himself against the bully, but did it in a dickish way. It seems like something that would happen in real-life.