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John Layfield
Sign in to saveAlso known as JBL, John Charles Layfield, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Vampiro Americano, John Bradshaw Layfield
American entrepreneur, professional wrestler, commentator and host
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Looking at the Lights
- Looking up at the Lights
- Have more money now
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Sweetwater, Texas, USA
John Charles Layfield is an American retired professional wrestler and current wrestling commentator/host for WWE, where he performs under the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL). Outside of his WWE work, Layfield is a financial analyst for Fox News. Within WWE, he was previously known by the ring name Bradshaw, and prior to that, the variations Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw and Blackjack Bradshaw…
Known for
- WWE Lucha Libre AAA World Wide2026
- TNA Genesis 2025 — JBL2025
- AAA Triplemanía XXXIII — JBL2025
- WWE/AAA Worlds Collide 2025: Las Vegas — JBL2025
- AAA Guerra de Titanes2025
- WWE's Greatest Moments2025
- TNA Emergence 2024 — John Layfield2024
- TNA Victory Road 2024 — John Layfield2024
- TNA Bound for Glory 2024 — John Layfield2024
- GCW Dream On — JBL2024
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 41
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,574x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,351x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,324x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,849x
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Key facts
- Born
- John Charles Layfield , ( 1966-11-29 ) November 29, 1966 (age 59) , Sweetwater, Texas , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Abilene Christian University
- Spouses
- Cindy Womack ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. June 6, 1994</span>"}]]}'>1994 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2003 ) Meredith Whitney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. February 11, 2005</span>"}]]}'>2005 )
- Ring name s
- Blackjack Bradshaw , Bradshaw , Death Mask , JBL , John "Bradshaw" Layfield , Johnny Hawk , Justin Hawk Bradshaw , Vampiro Americano
- Billed height
- 6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
- Billed weight
- 290 lb (132 kg)
- Billed from
- Sweetwater, Texas (as Blackjack Bradshaw), New York City (as John Layfield), Bradshaw Ranch (as Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw)
- Trained by
- Black Bart , Brad Rheingans
- Debut
- September 23, 1992
- Retired
- April 5, 2009
- Positions
- Offensive lineman , Right tackle
- High school
- Sweetwater (TX)
- College
- Abilene Christian
- Nfl draft
- 1990 : undrafted
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Fighting
- Team
- _Retired WWE
- Position
- Wrestler
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 130
- Image
- JBL as WWE Champion.jpg
- Height
- 195
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- Commons category
- John Layfield
- date of birth
- 1966-11-29
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- social media followers
- 728799
- birth name
- John Charles Layfield
- pseudonym
- Vampiro Americano
- debut date
- 1992-09-23
- service retirement
- 2009-04-05
- short name
- JBL
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Article
John Charles Layfield (born November 29, 1966), better known by the ring name John "Bradshaw" Layfield, is an American professional wrestling color commentator, retired professional wrestler and former football player. He is signed to WWE, where he is an ambassador and commentator for the company.
Layfield rose to prominence in WWE during its Attitude Era under the ring name Bradshaw, during which time he became a three-time WWF Tag Team Champion with Ron Simmons as part of the Acolytes Protection Agency (APA) or simply the Acolytes, a feared pair of strong and tough mercenaries who, aside from occasionally wrestling and doing "work" for "clients" spent most of their time sitting around in their "office" playing cards, drinking beer, fighting people backstage and then going out to bars and getting into bar fights. In 2004, Simmons retired and the APA separated, and Layfield was rebranded as the heel character JBL— a rough-mannered, brawling, blustering, bad-tempered and bigmouthed Texas elite businessman, driven into the arena by limousine. The gimmick was built off of Layfield's real-life accomplishments as a stock market investor. Later that year, he captured the WWE Championship and held it for 280 days, at the time the longest reign since Diesel’s one year long reign from 1994 to 1995. A month before his in-ring retirement at 2009's WrestleMania 25, he became Intercontinental Champion, which made him the 20th Triple Crown Champion and the 10th Grand Slam Champion in WWE history.