The wrestling world continues the mourn the passing of former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk and former WWE Champion Bray Wyatt. Booker T found out about Bray’s passing while he was live on the air during a taping of his podcast. Scroll down to see the Booker’s reaction.
Booker T getting word during his podcast that Bray Wyatt died:
“I don’t even have words. I don’t even have words for it. I don’t even know what to say. I really don’t even know how to address this. I really don’t have the words to actually put together right now. I don’t even know the situation or anything like that. I just know, like you said, Bray Wyatt stepped away to take some time off due to an injury. I thought we were expecting Bray Wyatt’s return to the WWE very soon. This is the last thing that I would think, imagine, or have dreamed that we would wake up today to this sad, tragic news that we lost Bray Wyatt.”
“I mean, everytime we lose a soldier, man, we feel the same way every time. We all go through the same grief every single time. Bray Wyatt, he had kids. You know, that’s the first thing you think about, especially for me. I lost my dad when I was 10 months old, 10 months, something that I have lived with my whole life. That’s where my heart goes. My heart goes to his kids, his wife, and his family, and hopefully, there again, they can get through this, although it’s gonna be hard. I know it’s gonna be hard. Something like this is something that perhaps you can never get through, seriously.”
“You’re not going to hear any bad words about Bray. I sat and I talked with that kid many, many times, and he seemed, you know, well grounded, someone who knew exactly what he wanted, someone who had direction and purpose, and then we wake up, 36 years old, and he’s not here. This is one of those moments where I say if you got someone you love, you might want to hug them a little tighter because none of us are promised tomorrow. It’s just one of those things. God’s gonna call all of us one day, you know, and we don’t know when that day is gonna be. That’s why I say enjoy every day on this earth that you possibly can and try to smile every day and hug the ones you love. It’s the only thing you can really do.”
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