As one would expect, DeAngelis sided with Styles regarding the incident where Styles punched out WWE star John Bradshaw Layfield while WWE toured in Iraq back in 2008. DeAngelis views the incident, at least the second altercation Bradshaw had with an ECW talent over the years, as karma for how he treated others.

“We all know that Bradshaw bullied everybody,” DeAngelis said. “So everybody had a Bradshaw story. So the fact that he got his comeuppance, people couldn’t wait to share the story. And I don’t know if it had so much to do with Joey as it did the fact that Bradshaw no longer could operate with the same mystique. I mean he still tried, but the mystique was gone, the idea of ‘He’s the bully. He’s the locker room enforcer,’ not so much. And I was happy for Joey because he got him off his back.

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