On the latest “Something To Wrestle With” podcast, Conrad Thompson gave an update on Bruce Prichard, who is on leave for WWE.
“I just want to address the elephant in the room. There’s been a lot of rumor and innuendo about Bruce Prichard. Just to clear it up, Bruce Prichard is still with WWE. Bruce Prichard is not quitting his podcast, but if you’re a long time listener to this show, you know that there have been health events in the Prichard family and household. Right now, Bruce is going to take a little bit of a leave of absence from WWE and he’s going to be away taking care of what’s really important.”
JBL on why he has returned to wrestling:
“Bruce (Prichard) gave me the whole game plan. I won’t give you what everything Bruce told me. I told him I was bored and I wanted to do something. Bruce laid out the entire game plan of what he did, about what guys have done, to create interest, to create something that’s worthwhile and something that is worth seeing. He gave me this whole game plan. Now I have not really confided in him since because he’s so busy. Now, I have confided in you (Conrad Thompson) and I have confided in Gerald Brisco. You’re probably the only two guys that know the stuff I’m doing. You made some phone calls that instantly got me into a lot of different places, which I greatly appreciate, but Bruce is the one who gave me the game plan for all this. All this stuff that I’m doing on independents, this stuff that I’m doing on social media, I’ve got some stuff coming up that I think is pretty cool. We’re going to have a lot more things. There is an end game to this, but it all came from Bruce. Bruce gave me this game plan a while back. He didn’t know what I’m doing now. He didn’t ask, but a lot of it came directly from Bruce. I’m having the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. I love this business so much, and I have missed being in the business. It’s so fun just to be around the guys, and it’s so fun just to be in arenas, be around wrestling rings, be around fans. I love this business and I’m not ready to go off into the sunset yet. So I’m having a lot of fun, but a lot of this came from Bruce.”
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