“Well, I’ve seen a few of the guys’ versions (of my fight with JBL), just coincidentally popping up when I’m watching stuff on my phone at night. Oh, he (JBL) laughs about it now too. He doesn’t care. That guy’s great. Back then, I was pissed at him but, a couple days later, we laugh about it, nobody cares anymore. That’s the way you have to be. But some of the accounts were somewhat accurate. We were on the plane — JBL and one of the other guys — kept throwing stuff up a few rows up and hit me in the head. Well, I’m trying to sleep. We don’t get a whole lot of sleep when you go to bed at midnight or 1 AM and you’re getting up at 5 AM for an early flight, a couple hours sleep on the plane. I walk back after he did it a few times. I said, ‘Look guys, I’m trying to get some sleep. I’ve had enough, okay?’ I walk back and sit down, and they do it again. So, a few more minutes goes by, I walk back, I’m like, ‘Guys, I had enough,’ and the only reason I didn’t start swinging right there is because I knew there’d be 20 Air Marshals waiting for me when we landed. So I’m like, let me go back and sit down. They did it a couple of more times and I am just fuming and I’m like, I wanna sprint back this aisle and just go now, and I gotta hold it, hold it.”

“We get to the baggage claim in St. Louis. I walk up and Bradshaw comes up and stands right beside me. Comes up and bumps me, right up against me. I took my sunglasses off, handed it to one of the guys. I came with a backhand from the floor. I backhanded him. I didn’t hit him as hard as I could because I didn’t want him to split his head open on the floor. But I cracked him. He flew. I turned around, I went, one, two, uppercut, bombed him. He went flat on his back at baggage claim and there were 500 people there, and just as I hit him the last time, my foot went through a duffle bag on the floor. It was like a puzzle. My foot must’ve went right through a certain way. There’s this big duffle bag and I couldn’t get it off my leg. I’m kicking, pulling — well, I don’t know the time. A little bit of time goes by. Well, he’s awake and back to his feet. I turn around, I’m like, aw, I can’t get this thing off my leg. I don’t know, 40-pound bag, 50-pound bag, and he comes back swinging. I see the punch coming, I slip. He throws another one, I slip, slip. After that, a whole bunch of guys grabbed everybody and pulled us apart and well, naturally, it was so many people at baggage claim, it was a pay-per-view day. So some of the guys from the office had already told Vince (McMahon) and stuff.”

Blackman also talked about the aftermath…

“We get to the arena. Well, Vince must’ve beelined right for me. I’m walking down the hallway, he comes up and Vince, obviously, he can be cynical. He comes straight up to me, he’s like, ‘Steve, Sunday morning in the airport? That’s great. That’s great,’ and I’m like, ‘Vince, I’m sorry it happened in the airport. I can’t say it won’t ever happen again but I can promise you it won’t happen in the airport.’ So we go walking back. I go put my shoes on and I said, ‘Go tell Bradshaw to lace up…’ And he comes up, he goes, ‘Steve, if you put me on the spot out there,’ he goes, ‘I’m gonna have to fight.’ I said, ‘Well, I expect you too!’ He goes, ‘Well, what do I have to do?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m gonna tell you what –’ I said, ‘You can apologize in front of everyone in the cafeteria for being a complete asshole.’ I said, ‘Or we’re gonna go again right there’ and I said, ‘I’m gonna hit a whole lot harder this time.’ So he walks in, he was in his sneakers and gym shorts. He was ready. I mean, he’s no punk. He goes, ‘I apologize for being an asshole,’ whatever, blah, blah and we let it go.”

“We laugh about it now… I hit him four times in a second (he laughed). Because I remember the sequence. Because I turned and it was like, I went, one, two, uppercut and then bomb. It was a pop, pop, pop, pop. He dropped flat on his back. But, anyway, it is what it is and when it happened, some guy, some elderly guy, must’ve gotten elbowed by one of us or knocked backward and I don’t know, he was an older man. His son, who was somewhat elderly, comes up and goes, ‘One of you guys hit my father and he had blood coming out of his ear,’ and I’m like, I looked over at the guy, I said, ‘Sorry. I’m really sorry about that.’ He let it go and then the son said something else. I said, ‘Dude, I said I’m sorry twice, okay?’ And his father’s standing there and he looks okay now or whatever. The guy said something a third time. I said, ‘I’ve had enough.’ I said, ‘Christ, I said I was sorry now!’ (Steve) Austin heard me say that. I look over and he’s standing there cracking up… They kept me and Bradshaw off TV for like a month — as a punishment — fined both of us, and it’s unfortunate, but the only reason heat was taken off of us because that’s the night Owen (Hart) fell from the ceiling. Because when that happened, there was nothing else on anybody’s mind but Owen…” (quotes courtesy of Andrew Thompson)

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Planning out the match: “I don’t remember much being discussed differently than what we did. Most people don’t realize, it was rare that I’d go out there and talk about the match and stuff in the ring before we go out and do an appearance. I didn’t really walk through much with people. That was a rare one when we went out there to go up to the Titan Tron, we actually climbed up and that’s high. And the worst thing was, there was nothing on the floor from the TitanTron until you’re seven feet, eight feet away. Then there was a mat the size of a bed way out here. And I’m like, he’s going to land on that backwards from up there? What if he falls straight down? This one guy, he’s one of the stunt coordinators, goes, ‘If he just steps back and falls this way, he’ll land out there.’ I’m like, You’re kidding me, right? I said, well that’s insane to me. So they said, ‘Okay, we’ll do it.’ He didn’t drop, but he said, Okay, he’ll do that. And I said, All right.

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“Myself & Jeff were so happy to run into Steve Blackman today. A legit cool & badass dude who rarely does public appearances nowadays. As the charismatic @JCLayfield would say, it was OUTSTANDING!”

Myself & Jeff were so happy to run into Steve Blackman today. A legit cool & badass dude who rarely does public appearances nowadays.

As the charismatic @JCLayfield would say, it was OUTSTANDING! pic.twitter.com/8dgx1RJQ2i

— MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 16, 2022

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