On the latest “Hall Of Fame” podcast, WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T talked about AEW Full Gear and the latest WWE and MMA news.
Booker T had a lot to say about wrestlers wanting to put on a great match instead of entertaining the crowd:
“Wrestling is entertainment. It’s not MMA. That’s where wrestling has really taken a turn right now because a lot of the wrestlers look at it and say, ‘I want to go out and have the best matches in the world.’ Ok, do that. That’s perfectly fine, but at the end of the day, your bank account is not going to be nowhere near a guy that went out and entertained at the highest level, and performed at the highest level, and went out and sold the most merchandise. If that’s what you want to do, if that’s your end game as far as this business goes, I’m going to tell you right now, if that is the end game, look at the movie, The Wrestler. That’s all you got to do. I’m going to leave it at that.”
Booker T’s co-host Brad Gilmore added: “Think about the movie, Rocky. The movie, Rocky, did not win best picture because Carl Weathers and Sylvester Stallone had a really great fight at the end of the movie. Rocky won best picture because it told a phenomenal story that came to a climax in the fight, at the end of the fight, the finish is where we got the, ‘Oh my God. He didn’t do it, but he came so close.’ We got the feeling of completeness.”
Booker concluded with: “You’re 100% right, and like I said, the guys that want to go out, and I’m not going to sit here and begrudge the guys that want to go out and do that. Randy The Ram, that’s what he wanted to do. He lived in a little trailer park and played his Nintendo. He was happy with it.”
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