Booker T says what WWE did for him for 25 years

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T is pretty much a WWE lifer. He has been a part of the promotion for more than two decades and still has a firm standing. His in-ring days are done now, but fans can still see him doing NXT commentary and coaching on WWE LFG.

On the “No-Contest Wrestling” podcast, Booker T spoke about how he’s grateful to the company. Apart from a two-year stint in TNA between 2007 and 2009, Booker has been loyal to WWE. The Stamford-based promotion has shown him the respect all these years and has put him in a prominent spot, too. He recalled his beginnings, when he didn’t have to go through tryouts for the contract.

“I really want to clear something up, man,” Booker T said (1:18:38 onward). “I’ve been working for WWE now for what, 25 years? Pretty much, off and on. Other than the two years in TNA. This company has done nothing but right by me the whole time. When I came in, I had a healthy contract. I’m serious, man. I hear stories of these guys (that) had to go get looked at in a tryout, I never had to do any of that stuff. I skipped past all of that.”

Booker also owns a wrestling promotion, Reality of Wrestling. WWE has been linked with it and has sent stars there to wrestle more than their scheduled matches. King Booker also runs his “Hall of Fame” podcast. Apart from these commitments, he does NXT color commentary every week and coaches LFG talents.

Booker T was first discouraged for the Trick Williams ad-libs

Trick Williams has blown up on SmackDown due to his charisma and a powerful theme song. The “Whoop That Trick” chants from the live crowd added perfect energy for the “Locked In” theme song of his. Back in NXT, though, Booker T, on commentary, even used to fill in the gaps between those chants with enthusiastic words.

King Booker spoke about it on the same podcast.

“As for the ad-libs go, there again, I’m just having fun out there,” he said. “And that was one of the times Vic [Joseph] tried to shut me down. Trick was coming out of his music started playing, I just started, I just started vibing, and then I just went off, and I just started doing it, you know. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, man. By the end of it, that Trick got in the ring, and he did his stuff, and Vics looks at me, and he goes, ‘Do that every week.'”

Booker spoke about how initially, Vic Joseph, his partner in commentary, shut him down. Later, it just came naturally to him when he started vibing and hyping up Williams’ entrance even more. Then Joseph suggested that the ad-libs should be done every week by him.

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