In an interview with Hannibal TV, Rene Dupree gave his own interpretation on JBL’s rumored bullying antics ad compared the WWE to a military structure. Here are highlights:
On how he would describe JBL: “Go watch the movie Dazed and Confused. It has a character played by Ben Affleck, who basically flunked himself out of high school for the sole purpose that he can come back and haze the young kids coming from junior high and hit him with the stick. That’s the best description I can give of JBL.”
On what the WWE is like: “If I were to describe the WWE, it’s like a well-oiled machine. A billion dollar company, very successful, it’s almost like the military. You got your head captain, we all know who it is, then we got little sergeants who are put in place who are align the troops and soldiers. The longer you’re there the higher you get ranked. That’s the best way I can describe WWE. If you don’t fit their mold, or you’re not part of their gameplan, or you don’t react to their tests the right way you’re booted out. Maybe that’s every corporate American company. I don’t know.”
On what JBL does: “He never personally does anything but he gets like people under him, like the military a lower ranking person, to do his dirty work for him.”
On what he thinks happened with Mauro Ranallo and JBL: “Again, like I described earlier, there are certain tests to test certain people. Maybe he doesn’t fit the mold because he’s not a wrestler, he never came from a wrestling background. The guy’s very talented so perhaps there is a lot of jealousy in this business. Again, he’s been there a while and is higher rankings. He’s on of the people that the higher ups feel has a good judge of character for the people that fit that company.”
On JBL’s clique backstage: “That’s still there? They were all southern boys. They all stick together. Even though I’m persona non grata, there’s no way in hell that a person like me would go back knowing that he’s there cause I’d probably break his f*cking neck.”
