On a recent edition of the “Stories With Brisco & Bradshaw” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer JBL commented on his issues with Mauro Ranallo during their time working together in WWE, which eventually led to Ranallo quitting his role on commentary in 2017. The tension between Ranallo and JBL reportedly stemmed from some comments JBL made on a March 2017 edition of Bring It To The Table.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On what led to his rant on Bring It To The Table: “They said, ‘Mauro just retweeted a poll that he was in, that he was the number one announcer.’ And I said, ‘Okay, I’ll do a rant on that.’ So I did the rant on the poll.”
On not realizing that was a poll from Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer: “Well, that was his poll, that’s how little I knew about it. Mauro saw it, I just assumed that Mauro knew it was a working rant.”
On his claim that he was “working” a character angle: “To me, it was a working situation, same as me being a heel commentator with him. As far as I knew, I didn’t have a bad relationship with him.”
