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Legendary bully John Bradshaw Layfield

So far, WWE has continued to cover up, sweep under the rug, and ignore the issue being discussed below.

ECW and WWE Standout Stevie Richards spoke with Bin Hamin during Hamin’s Hardcore Happy Hour about WWE’s bullying culture and John Bradshaw Layfield specifically. This comes in the wake of Mauro Ranallo’s departure with bullying reports surrounding it. Furthermore, claims supporting Richards culture of bullying comments stemming from the top are easily searched on Youtube and stated by reliable sources. Here is what Richards said when asked about being bullied by JBL.

Ya there was a 2 year stretch where I had the cross-hairs on me. I’m not the kind of person who looks back on stuff, it’s going to be weird for people to hear this because obviously WWE is “the show” to people who’ve never been there… but I just thank god that I got out of there with my ethics my morals, I can look at myself in the mirror everyday. That probably kept me from going further if you notice the stop / start pushes I had throughout my run, it was probably directly related to probably my heaviest criticism of not “playing the game”. I don’t mean that as a pun, I just mean a political standpoint I just never wanted to waste my energy on that.

When it goes back to the bullying stuff there, it starts right at the top. It’s a systemic culture there, it’s not an isolated thing with JBL doing what he’s done all along, and continues to do. It has to have some sort of approval or some sort of nod or lack of a head shake saying “you can’t do that”. So he’s a symptom of the real problem, I believe, in wrestling. I don’t speak out honestly because I don’t want to spew out anything negatively but…

It’s such a joke… I feel the like anti-bullying thing…. CM Punk was right it was a 100% shoot. It’s a PR stunt to the Nth degree. It is not a genuine thing in my opinion.

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