Former ECW & WWE superstar Stevie Richards spoke with Bin Hamin on Hamin’s show “Hamin’s Hardcore Happy Hour” and Richards discussed his experienced being “bullied” by JBL and how the WWE locker room is accustom to letting it happen.
Here is what Stevie Richards had to say:
“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…. Punk was right it was a 100% shoot. It’s a PR stunt to the Ninth degree. It is not a genuine thing in my opinion.”
