The topic of WWE’s “house shows” has been one that’s talked about for some time, and Booker T has offered up his opinion on the matter.
Speaking during the latest episode of the Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T was asked about comments made by Maven, who said that the lack of house shows is why wrestlers don’t improve much nowadays. The WWE legend disagreed, noting that wrestling now and in the past are not comparable.
“I just don’t agree with them at all, just because you really can’t compare wrestling from when we came up to the wrestling that the guys are doing today,” said Booker T (via Wrestling News). “It’s no way. You just can’t compare it. It’s like apples and oranges. For me to be able to get in the ring with Ricky Steamboat and not have to say a word and just listen, and he take me all the way to a place that I never could have imagined a dream taking myself, and I get out of the ring feeling and feeling like I actually know how to do this now, that right there is not something that can happen today the way the guys learn it”
Booker T went on to say that, to him, the real problem is that there are not too many veterans helping the young generation of stars.
“I just feel like house shows is not the reason why talent is not getting to the peak where they should. I think it’s the lack of veterans being able to go out there and guide them and show them. We lost a lot of carpenters along the way,” Booker T said. “We lost a boatload of carpenters who should have been teaching this next generation, but a lot of this next generation, I’m just being honest, they’re teaching themselves.”
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