WWE Color Commentator JBL posted an
apology on
his facebook page to TNA Wrestlers Bully Ray and
Devon for categorizing Team 3D as unsucessful as singles wrestlers during the
recent airing of WWE Smackdown.
"Anytime you do a
ton of tv every week you are bound to make mistakes. I made one this past week
on Smackdown and tried to correct it on air but wasn't able to get it done
sufficiently, so I want to apologize to my good friends the Dudleys openly-and
to all you twitter police so you can get out of Momma's basement and enjoy the
weekend.
I was trying to make the point that a lot of tag teams never
make it, or try to make it, as singles wrestlers and listed the Killer Bees, LOD
and Dudley's (and I think Hart Foundation). Sometimes on air you try to go
somewhere entertaining and you get caught and try to correct it. Sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't.
I realized as soon as I said it that both
the Dudley's and Hart Foundation had become huge singles stars-I was thinking
about my time in WWE where Dudley's had been mainly just a tag team-and one of
greatest of all time in what I think was greatest era of tag teams in history
when you had Edge/Christian, NAO, DX, Dudley's, APA, LOD, Hardy's and more all
at the same time.
Bubba and Devon have been good friends for a long time
and I have the utmost respect and love for them, if I had made the mistake on
someone else-I would just chalk it up to live TV and not worry about it. But,
these guys are good friends and with the Twitter police loving to correct me I
thought I would just make it public and explain how it happened.
What I
hate more than anything is this becoming an issue and taking away from great
work in the ring, as my job is to do my best to tell stories about talent in an
attempt to help them get over.
Believe me, it won't be the last time I
make a mistake, I fire stuff out rapidly sometimes with references I don't plan
on making as a way to try and be entertaining and react to the events in front
of me.
However, the Dudley's first day with the APA Bubba hit me so hard
with a 2x4 that I owed him a receipt anyway!!!"
