WWE Hall of Famer Booker T recently talked to Scott Fishman of the Miami Herald while promoting his appearance for this weekend’s appearance for Ronin Pro Wrestling.
Booker talks CM Punk speaking up on Colt Cabana’s podcast, working with his Reality of Wrestling school and preparing them for a possible WWE future, the idea of a union in wrestling, and much more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Booker T On CM Punk:
“With me personally, certain business should be between yourself and the person you’re doing business with. You never know where you’ll have to go in the future. I’ve never been about burning bridges. I don’t know if he burned a bridge or not. I don’t know. It’s a personal thing more than anything for him to walk away. He had to have a certain feeling about something. It could be a lot of things, but it’s personal. For me, I can just say I’ve always looked at the business as a job. It’s never been nothing more than me getting a script and me going out there and performing. Of course, I’ve always wanted to make a decent pay like everybody else. You have to realize where I come from and a guy like CM Punk comes from. That may be the difference. Hopefully, Punk finds his way back to WWE. Me, personally, I was one of the guys who noticed his talent when I first saw him. I brought him to a wrestling show down here in Houston when he was a kid and before he was this ‘straight-edge superstar’ and all that stuff. I saw talent in him. Then when he did the whole pipe bomb thing, I saw even more talent in him.
Booker T On His Wrestling School:
“I consider myself an official scout for not just WWE, but the Reality of Wrestling. If I can get these kids in Reality of Wrestling if they’re good enough, they’re going to be seen on television with me. I have a small national deal and local television deal here in Houston where we get seen. If I can get these guys down here and coach them. I tell the guys if they do get to go to a WWE show to be seen, it doesn’t become about luck then. It becomes to how prepared you are. You may look good. You may be something they want. You have to show them a little bit of something, so they see they have something to work with.”
Booker T On A Pro Wrestling Union:
“Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have to understand wrestling is not a regulated sport. It’s not football or anything like that. There has been a lot of talk about wrestlers having insurance and whether WWE should provide it. I’m not trying to hide behind any cloak or anything like that. I say this because I run my own business. It’s hard to say how you would run a business if it was yours.
