JBL has revealed who was the mastermind behind the different members of his “Cabinet” stable in the WWE.
The JBL-led stable lasted from 2004 to 2006. They were created to defend his position as WWE Champion, with the Bashams, Orlando Jordan and Amy Weber all joining the group.
Speaking on the Something to Wrestle podcast, JBL was asked who picked the various members of his Cabinet in WWE. He revealed that Vince McMahon picked all the members, but ran it by JBL to see if he agreed. The only one he didn’t have a say in was the addition of Amy Weber. However, JBL added that she was great in her role and wished she’d have stayed longer.
JBL wishes some of his Cabinet members stayed in WWE longer
“I did have some say in it, and Vince ran them by me. I had no issue with any of them—of course, I thought they were all really, really talented guys. That was Vince’s idea to have something built around me,” JBL said.
“The Bashams were one of the first, and then Orlando, who was incredibly talented. Amy Weber was just kind of given to me—that was from Vince. As the talent came in, Vince said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this really talented young lady, very pretty, and we’re going to put her with you.’ That’s all I really knew.”
“I mean, if I wanted to say, ‘No, I’m not going to work with her, I have someone else in mind,’ I guess I could have. But that was the only one that wasn’t really run by me. She was fantastic, though—really talented. I wish she would have stayed because she was really good at what she did,” added JBL.
Weber quit WWE in February 2005 due to her allegations of harassment by some talent. She initially said that pay and the “frat house” environment weren’t for her, but shared went into detail about the harassment she endured in a 2020 video on her YouTube channel.
WWE explained her departure on air by having JBL say she was fired for accidentally hitting him (instead of Big Show) with a sleeping dart the week prior.
JBL also revealed who approved the APA’s infamous “Always Pounding Ass” shirt, and confirmed that it was well-known it was a double entendre.
