When the RAW and SmackDown! stars headed towards the ring, JBL intestinally targeted the Blue Meanie and threw several legit punches to his face busting him open. Several of the guys in the ring at the time looked very upset by the whole ordeal. Al Snow, who had trained Meanie in his early days, looked visibly upset at the whole situation.
To make matters worse, JBL and Meanie do have heat dating back to when Meanie was employed by WWE. JBL also cut a promo on him several weeks ago at SmackDown! but it was edited off the show.
Meanie's face after the fight
The Blue Meanie posted the following comments on his website's blog :
What turned out to be a beautiful weekend came to end on a sour note. I guess by now you all know what happened last night between Bradshaw and myself. It's no secret that Bradshaw never liked me from my first day in the WWE to my last. What I did to the guy to piss him off I don't know but then maybe I never needed to know. Bradshaw has always had the rep of being a bully and a liberty taker in the ring and he also has a rep of getting away with it.
Once the ECW/WWE brawl started I paired of with Coach and I felt a punch come from out of nowhere. My first instinct was to hit back BUT I also had the issue of trying to protect the 14 staples I have in my head. I got some rib shots in the best I could but he got the upper hand with going to my face, opening a fresh wound on my forehead and swelling my eye.
All I saw was red as the blood fill me eyes and I believe it was Maven I pulled on top of me to get him to "choke" me. After he got cleared out guys came up to check on me and we went on the other deal with Austin and Bischoff and the big post brawl party in the ring. As F***ed up as what Bradshaw did, the crowd reaction had me so buzzed that I didn’t feel anything.
I got to the back and Bradshaw was in a part of the gorilla position. He came over like he was going to do something else but people got in between. He was yelling about me talking about him on the Internet. The rest of what he said I didn’t hear cause I was too busy saying, “Yo, it’s a work!” and “Dude, the business is a F***in work!!” So I did the best thing anyone could ever do in the situation and just walked away.
I got stitched up and said my good byes. A lot of the guys were pissed and asked what happened. When I told them they were pissed even more. We got home and all I have been doing is popping Aleve and icing my face and reflecting. All this happened over was me calling him a bully. Well John……… you just proved me right.
In closing I want to say thank you to everyone who ran Hardcore Homecoming Friday night. I wanna say thank you to the WWE for giving EC Dub an opportunity to shine last night. I wanna say to the rest of the WWE workers and staff a big thank you for the hospitality. It was great catching up with all of you. To my EC Dub brothers and sisters I wanna say I love you. I was in heaven seeing all of you this weekend and doing it one more time. To the fans I wanna say I love you because with out the fans we wouldn’t have been anywhere without you this past weekend. I will be going back to icing my face and ponder if I will be wrestling on this weekends 3PW show. I will probably pull off of it so I can properly heal these stitches and staples. Plus we all know chicks dig scars.
I love you all!!
A fan's account on what happened between JBL and the Blue Meanie during the ending the ECW PPV:
Basically, if watch in the corner, JBL and Axl Rotten square off a bit and a couple of punches are thrown. Tracy Smother, who as you know is a legit tough guy, leaps in, and lands a couple of haymakers to the head of JBL, as Sandman wraps his cane around JBL’s throat from behind and holds him in place. Balls Mahoney and Mikey Whipwreck leap in, and as they start whaling on him, he goes to the mat. Bubba Ray Dudley is outside of the ring and walking around the corner, when he apparently realizes what is going on, grabs JBL, and yanks him outside of the ring. He throws a punch (legit, I don’t know) and sends JBL reeling toward his WWE counter parts. I’m not sure if the first part was a work or shoot. It seemed legit in watching in, but the camera is so far away, it’s hard to tell. But Smothers did seem to really be going after JBL. Watch the footage for yourself.
and this is a pic of paul heyman crying lol