Triple H had it dead center when he referred to John Bradshaw Layfield as "Foghorn Leghorn" a while back. Layfield and the cartoon icon have the following in common. They're big, they talk big, mostly hot air, they're arrogant, and annoying. The upside to Layfield moving to Raw is that we don't have to listen to him for 2 hours per week. His announcing had gotten stale over 18 months largely because Vince McMahon kept feeding him the same lines over and over. He kept repeating the same things about certain wrestlers (i.e. Chavo Guerrero, Dave Taylor, Fit Finlay). He was about as original as a $3 bill, if that.

Having said all that, I believe that Layfield is destined to be wearing multiple hats on Raw before '08 is done. For now, he'll feud with Chris Jericho to keep Y2J away from champion Randy Orton, a move born more out of backstage politics than anything else in this writer's view. However, if the events of Raw last night are any indication, Layfield could be spending more time wearing his custom suits instead of his tights & boots.

McMahon ripped into GM William Regal when Regal refused to strike Hornswoggle in their match, even with a set of brass knux that Vince found in the GM's coat pocket. Regal would later use those knux on Ric Flair during his match with Triple H, screwing the Cerebral Assassin out of the Royal Rumble match. McMahon has his own selfish reasons for that, but that's for another column. Regal is under pressure from McMahon to do things his way, and with Layfield now on Raw, the pressure will be even greater, because it won't take much to put the power-crazed JBL in the GM's office to make life miserable for Flair, HHH, Jericho, Jeff Hardy, and, when he returns in the spring, John Cena. Layfield as GM will be the worst possible thing they could do, actually. After 5 1/2 years of mostly heel GMs running Raw (Regal is at best a tweener), the best they can do is make the GM's office more neutral. They were going in that direction with Teddy Long on Smackdown for 3 years before McMahon, showing again why he is creatively bankrupt, replaced a "disabled" Long with Vicki Guerrero in late September and has Long as the put-upon, reluctant "assistant". I'll have more to say on that in another column.

In short, the ducks are lined up for JBL. Jericho is up first, but then, it'll be Triple H, Flair, Shawn Michaels, and, maybe, Orton. Think back to JBL's comments on the 12/21 Smackdown. He wants the WWE title back that Cena won from him at Wrestlemania 21, and if Orton still has it past Mania 24, well, he's a target.

Make book on this. Triple H will somehow, some way, get back into the title picture in time for Mania, beat Orton, then have to feud with JBL. In all probability, JBL will end title run #12, and then be fed to the returning Cena. During that time, I see him taking over for Regal as GM. JBL-HHH is 3 years in the making, I know, and it will be fun, but it will also expose JBL as the most annoying promo artist in the business. Oh, Hunter can ramble on, but JBL makes him look like a saint.

Bottom line is, it's Layfield's last chance at the main event. He's going to make the most of it, then hang 'em up for good and settle on Wall St. once and for all. Mondays have gotten one more reason to be hated.