Height: 6 foot 6
Weight: 290 pounds
From: New York City
Signature Move: Clothesline From Hell
WWE Debut: 1995
Entrance Video: WATCH
Career Highlights: WWE Champion (longest-reigning WWE Champion in 10 years, held from June, 2004 to April, 2005); World Tag Team Champion;
United States Champion; Hardcore Champion; European Champion

Never challenge John Bradshaw Layfield to a street fight—especially on Wall Street, or when he’s offering valuable investment pointers to help bulk up your portfolio.
Our fans watching JBL every week on WWE programming think he’s more “bull” than “bull market,” but consider the following: He didn’t clothesline his way to a senior vice-president position at a major investment bank. Analysts respect his appearances on Fox News Channel, CNN, CNNfn, MSNBC, CNBC, and C-SPAN as a financial advisor, not a “wrestling god.” He didn’t need a degree in Finance to line people’s pockets with cash, or provide common-sense management tips in his bestselling book Have More Money Now. And “The John Bradshaw Layfield Show,” a weekly radio program in which he champions his views on politics, sports, and entertainment, is now syndicated in more than 150 radio stations across America. Face it: JBL is saying something the people want to hear.Not bad for a banker’s son from Sweetwater, a Texas town that JBL claims is renown for its annual “Rattlesnake Roundup.” (He still laughs at the time the Humane Society picketed the event—“We weren’t cruel to the snakes. We just caught ’em and killed ’em.”) Snakeskin, however, is no match for pigskin in Sweetwater; football is the town’s prime pastime, and the sport that fueled two of JBL’s three teenage aspirations (“playing football at Abilene Christian University, going pro, and becoming rich”). He’d earn impressive All-American honors as an offensive tackle at Abilene, though lingering knee problems would limit his second dream to less than a year with the NFL’s then-Los Angeles Raiders, and two seasons as part of the World League’s San Antonio Riders.JBL was down to a 1980 Chevrolet step-side pickup truck and $27 in his bank account when he invested his energies toward a career in wrestling—and not opponents like the eight-foot, 800-pound brown bear he faced at a local cowboy bar on a college dare. More important, he realized that he needed to wrest control of his financial future; as he states in his book, “I decided that being poor ain’t fun, and staying that way is stupid.”Getting physical in the ring has netted JBL a career wealth of championships, while his “fiscal” approach to the stock market has made him a very bankable resource in shareholders’ eyes. Perhaps the one drawback from his economic success is that it affords him the luxury of saying whatever’s on his mind—mainly because he can put his money where his mouth is. And since his return to in-ring competition in early 2008, JBL has also put his boot where his opponents' mouths are.

JBL's Mamajuana Energy
Get virility in a bottle with JBL's Mamajuana Energy. Only JBL could bring the legend of Mamajuana into the new millennium.
More on Mamajuana

Video: JBL on Mamajuana Watch: JBL'$ Take

JBL HITS THE MEDIA
Following the special appearance by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain on Raw, JBL hit the media to offer his feedback. Watch candidates' Raw message

Watch JBL on Fox News

JBL is "Cashin' In"
WWE Superstar John “Bradshaw” Layfield will be featured on Fox News’ weekly show Cashin’ In with Terry Keenan on Saturdays 10 a.m. ET. Cashin’ In is one of the network’s highest-rated programs.
Additionally, Layfield will continue to appear regularly on Your World with Neil Cavuto which airs weekdays at 6 p.m. ET.

JBL the Crash Test Dummy

Some of you may not like him, but JBL is one of sports-entertainment's toughest Superstars. From UNdertaker to Big Show to the late Eddie Guerrero, he has faced them all and endured vicious beatings.
Video Flashbacks: JBL Takes a Beating

Classic APA Bar Brawls
JBL was part of one of the most memorable tag teams in WWE history, the APA. This team loved to drink beer and kick ass. Relive some of their unforgettable bar brawls in this video gallery.

Video Flashbacks: APA Bar Brawls

JBL on the Radio
Listen to JBL every week on the radio.



The John Bradshaw Layfield Show is the fastest growing show in radio. Started in May of 2004, it has grown to over 150 stations. The show has two Top Ten markets, with WBAP in Dallas and KPRC in Houston.
Layfield answers calls on every show and e-mails. He gives awards every show, The Bonehead of the Week, The North End of the South Bound Donkey, Paris Hilton Tramp of the Week, and the Michael Moore Excellence in Anti-Americanism.
Layfield’s show has regular guests and discusses current topics from sports to finance to politics. Layfield also gives out gifts such as autographed books and fishing lures to the best e-mails.
Layfield loves when people disagree with him, because some of his opinions are right, and the others are right as well.
Layfield brings a very eclectic background to hosting the show

Golden JBL
JBL was the longest-reigning World Champion in SmackDown history. Here is a look at his impressive title resume.


JBL's TITLE HISTORY
While JBL began his career on his own, his first piece of WWE gold came when he and Faarooq won the World Tag Team Championship. After three successful reigns as World Tag Team Champion, JBL branched out on his own to win several singles championships, including the WWE Championship.

WWE CHAMPIONSHIP (1 time)
-6/27/2004, The Great American Bash: def. Eddie Guerrero

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP (1 time)
-4/2/2006, WrestleMania 22: def. Chris Benoit

WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP (3 times)
-5/31/1999, Monday Night Raw: with Faarooq, def. Kane & X-Pac
-7/25/1999, Fully Loaded: with Faarooq, def. The Hardys
-7/9/2001, Monday Night Raw: def. The Dudleys

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP (1 time)
-10/22/2001, Monday Night Raw: def. The Hurricane

HARDCORE CHAMPIONSHIP (17 times)
-6/3/2002, Monday Night Raw: def. Steven Richards
-6/22/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-6/28/2002: def. Steven Richards
-6/29/2002: def. Steven Richards
-6/30/2002: def. Steven Richards
-7/6/2002: def. Christopher Nowinski
-7/7/2002: def. Christopher Nowinski
-7/12/2002: def. Big Show
-7/13/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-7/14/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-7/15/2002, Monday Night Raw: def. Johnny Stamboli
-7/26/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-7/27/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-7/28/2002: def. Shawn Stasiak
-8/3/2002: def. Tommy Dreamer
-8/4/2002: def. Tommy Dreamer
-8/19/2002, Monday Night Raw: def. Tommy Dreamer

JBL fights global warming
JBL spent his holidays on an Antarctic mission to tackle global warming and work towards reform in public policy.


Color commentator's green cause

Spending nearly two weeks in deep freeze, SmackDown’s John Bradshaw Layfield rounded out his travel résumé of 55 different countries by visiting his seventh and final continent: Antarctica. Instead of unwrapping gifts under an energy-sucking, heavily lit Christmas tree, the SmackDown commentator spent his holiday vacation on a personal crusade against global warming.
“[Antarctica] was the only continent that I had never been to,” JBL explained. “I wanted to see the continent and get firsthand knowledge of global warming because there is such a divergence of opinion about what is really going on in our environment.” He added, “I also wanted to learn something about this because I’m going to be president one day.”
The former WWE Champion said his intent was to quell his desire to determine the cause behind global warming. He sought to learn whether man is causing the changing atmospheric conditions or if the globe is in a warming cycle, or a combination of both.
“My take is that man is causing it,” JBL asserted. “The fact that [the earth is] warming is a huge problem, and it’s being exacerbated by CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions, most likely caused by man.”
Today, there is an unprecedented amount of carbon dioxide – a harmful greenhouse gas –in the atmosphere that contributes heavily to the worldwide climate change. Studies reveal that this increase in global temperatures causes glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise.
“This isn’t just polar bears going extinct; it’s a serious problem,” he claimed. “The loss of alpine glaciers in Europe is going to cause huge economic hardships. We’re going to have wars over water if this is the case, which scientific data has proven to be certain.”
Glaciers, however, are not the Wall Street media maven’s primary concern. As JBL told WWE.com, environmental issues directly affect something that is very near and dear to his money-minded heart: investments.
“To invest in this world – in any type of energy – you’ve got to know about global warming,” he explained. “I’m not against oil. I’m not against the internal combustible engine car. I’m just saying we’ve got to be smarter with what we’re burning.”
Once close to investing in a wind farm in Texas, Layfield believes that government policy supporting alternative energy sources could positively impact the state of an already damaged atmosphere.
“There are so many things that our country can do when you talk about the consumption side,” JBL said. “[The U.S. government] has to start being responsible stewards for our environment.”
Comparing this issue to other environmental causes, JBL detailed the need for officials to take action.
“We stopped the ozone hole from growing by stopping CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) from getting into atmosphere just by cutting out Freon and other major offenders. It’s a different thing than global warming, but it’s a sign that we can do something to positively affect the environment.”
Criticizing the “flag bearers for this cause,” the SmackDown star said his journey may not necessarily end with his trip to the globe’s southernmost continent. He stated that he would like to join forces with Bill Schlesinger, international authority on climate science and Dean of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.
Schlesinger is hosting a think tank outside of New York in the near future and the former WWE Champion has hopes of participating in this advocacy for climate control.
“Global warming’s real,” JBL declared. “If [America wants] to be the economic powerhouse of the future, we have to make sure that this environment stays in tact. I don’t mean to sound like a leftist tree-hugger, but this is simply the fact.”

Layfield Lure
In East Texas, Jester & Cotton Layfield constructed a lure during the depression which came to be known as the Layfield Lure. As with most good things, word spread and this bass lure found its way to devout anglers far and wide over the next 30 years.
The tradition of the Layfield Lure lives on today in a descendent of the Layfields; John "Bradshaw" Layfield has worked to revive the lure (see image below).