JBL on the Six Feet Under podcast said Ron Simmons saved him from a group of men who pulled knives on him in a bar in Canada by running across the bar and cutting what JBL called the greatest promo he has ever heard in his life.
JBL said he got into a fight and men pulled knives and had him backed against a wall. "I thought, sh*t, I'm gonna die in Canada, of all places."
He saw Simmons on the other side of the bar. Simmons came running like "a freaking Avenger," grabbed a beer bottle off a table, and cut a promo.
"To this day, the greatest promo I've ever heard in my life. And he ends it with, 'I'm gonna hit the first white mother that moves.'"
JBL said his first reaction was to cheer. Then he realized the problem: "I'm the only white mother. And I thought, why would he hit me? I'm trying to debate this. And Ron looks around. He goes, 'Not you.' It was like an APA skit. 'Not you.'"
The men with the knives decided they were not worth the trouble: "These guys look at us like, '...
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