Coming to WWE after a profitable run in WCW, after the promotion closed, usually meant a wrestler would get buried or humiliated. However within the uncommon circumstances of Rey Mysterio, Goldberg, and Booker T, their careers prospered once they stepped into WWE.
Nonetheless, moving into a longtime locker room after being part of the WCW roster for years might’ve led to warmth, however Booker claims he by no means bumped into this while with WWE.
“Nah, I by no means acquired warmth. I at all times understood, you understand, the locker room etiquette and stuff like that,” he claimed throughout an episode of his “The Corridor of Fame” podcast. “I used to be at all times, you understand, one of many guys you understand, I at all times thought the blokes might flip to so far as that goes.”
Booker additionally asserted that he was outspoken, including that backstage warmth did not matter to him, as a result of the locker room weren’t those chopping his cheque anyhow.
“I at all times thought if I did not acquired warmth with the boss, I used to be okay, and I do not keep in mind ever getting warmth with the boss,” he defined.
“A bully would preserve messing with you should you do not struggle again,” Booker added, noting that backstage warmth is barely a debated matter as a result of many guys had been too afraid to name it out again within the day, as a result of they had been scared they’d get fired. “That irks me, man, it actually irks me. Why not, you understand, inform any person to, you understand, take a hike? Go leap in a lake?”
Booker additionally criticized the wrestlers who stored locker room hazing due to warmth a secret, declaring that regardless that they had been frightened about getting fired, they normally acquired fired due to different circumstances anyway.
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