Former WWE wrestler John Bradshaw Layfield has updated his Facebook blog and talked about wrestlers using each others moves and gimmicks.
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JBL notes that the fallaway slam he used in his matches was originally borrowed from a wrestler in Japan. JBL said he wanted to use the move in his matches for a while, but waited until after Scott Hall left WWE before using it, because it was one of Hall’s signatures moves.
Now, he gets a lot of feedback from fans talking about Del Rio stealing his gimmick – and reveals what he thinks about that. He also teases (once again) about returning to the SmackDown announcing team:
“I see it used now by others, cool. I didn’t own it and I didn’t create it, very little was created in this business so theft is common-but it isn’t really theft if the guy is gone, which I am and Scott was when I started using it.
I remember the pump handle slam I did, I got it from Scott Steiner, and Road Dogg asked if he could use it for a finish, which of course I agreed. That’s how things work.
So when Alberto Del Rio steals my gimmick, got no problem with it-I stole it from Ted Dibiase and JR Ewing. Even George Wagner stole things and maybe his whole gimmick-look that one up on ‘Gorgeous George’ and Danny McShane (sp?).
Great business, glad to be a part.
Smackdown commentator job? I got mountains to climb first for my kids I work with, but ‘never say never’.”