Booker T gets HEATED talking Hulk Hogan almost ruining his WCW Title win (Dark Side of the Ring)

[@wendelleasports]

Booker T should've went over at wrestlemania 19.

[@shinsukecorbin425]

Vince actually wanted to put Booker over and have HHH win it back at Backlash with a 3rd match after that..Who would’ve won the feud I don’t think any of us will ever know

[@JayTheAdviceGuy]

​@@shinsukecorbin425 Then why didn't he? Don't tell me he let HHH talk him out of it...

[@shinsukecorbin425]

@@JayTheAdviceGuy HHH and Shawn talked Vince out of a lot of matches..Who you think was the reason Vader never got over?? That wasn’t Vince that was Shawn..Vince was so hooked onto Shawn and HHH that it was HHH who was supposed to win that KOTR when Austin won it

[@4LP3E]

@@shinsukecorbin425 stop trying to add things together with no correlation. vince screwed booker t. triple h angle was to put booker t over. but they changed the plan

[@shinsukecorbin425]

@@4LP3E Vince screwed Booker but gave him one of the best gimmicks in that era?? Bruh Vince was always high on Booker that’s why he threw Booker right in a feud with Austin the second he debuted..Name me somebody Vince pushed to be a top champion that he didn’t like outside of Bryan and Punk

[@criticalbill2090]

Booker T: "I`m about to become a first time, first time, first time, World WCW champion!" Hulk Hogan: "That doesnt work for me, brother"

[@KPSavant]

I don’t think so brother!! 😅🤣🤣

[@Em3ga]

"I don't want THEM with the title or dating my daughter." -Hogan "not 10 inches" Hogan

[@nickhughes8179]

Unless they’re 8 feet tall and worth millions Also Hulk “Republican” Hogan

[@josephrusso8135]

Not unless he's dead broke using my daughter to drain me of all my money and both trying to sleep w my daughter instead of producing songs for her album.

[@josephrusso8135]

Too real?

[@krlm2280]

Now you see why Bret Hart despises Hogan

[@1980Triumph]

Bret Hart is a phony, he didn't have a single match and has been whining about it ever since. He is a crybaby and so are his fans, Wrestling angles change all the time, and people back then didn't care about Bret, they cared about Hulk and Yoko which is who the WWF was pushing in the European markets before Hulk's time was up

[@cpesq.5884]

Brett screwed brett

[@brypete]

Now there are so many former WCW employees that have talked trash on Easy E and it's ok .. But as soon as Bret does it, he's bitter??? People just hate on Bret cause he tells it like it is and people don't want to hear it...

[@krlm2280]

@@brypete 💯💯

[@burntvirtue]

​@@1980Triumph Nah

[@franklingoodwin]

"Hulk Hogan, we coming for you...." vibes from Booker here 😂

[@tidallocs993]

😂😂😂😂

[@FreddieBlaze730]

😂👌

[@FreddieBlaze730]

😂👌

[@FreddieBlaze730]

😂👌

[@FreddieBlaze730]

😂👌

[@valitsemllaluokanavahyvaks3556]

Almost screwed by hogan, and getting screwed by Triple H must have been not fun.

[@Ghostface-1393]

I love the out come of that match… Hate predictability

[@RickyBritt-tz5rl]

He didn't get screwed by HHH

[@Imhim336.]

@@RickyBritt-tz5rlright he got screwed by Vince

[@TheRealVerbalAbuser]

Triple H was Dead Wrong.

[@judasfire2]

@@RickyBritt-tz5rlTriple H single-handedly buried all the WCW wrestlers who arrived in WWE after the company closed , that’s why they all left shortly after. Even Sting mentioned how didn’t want to go to WWE , because he didn’t want to get that type of treatment as well.

[@mkdisciple]

Booker and Steiner got the belt way too late to save WCW.

[@thesupervisor3270]

Yeah it should of been 99. Steiner, Booker or DDP should have been the one to end Goldberg streak and win the World belt from him

[@immanuelguzman-magallanes3790]

Probably should have been Goldberg in Triple Threat. Then a Couple of Cage Matches...

[@aoisora1445]

@@thesupervisor3270 DDP was the only credible option of the 3 that would not end the gimmick... Steiner was using a submission finish, Booker's finish was too regular... DDP's finish was sold hard so it still had that aura of being able to end Goldberg, not counting Goldberg knocked himself out when he speared DDP lols

[@robdangripp9406]

They had some great matches together and I wish I could have seen Booker t and Dr Steiner brothers into the Hall of Fame.

[@robdangripp9406]

That's why I hate hulk Hogan because he likes to hog the heavyweight title everywhere he goes and he thinks that nobody else has a chance to shine if it was up to Hogan he would probably be take the world title at 70 years old

[@iarej0e]

Seeing David Arquette of all people immediately get how crazy it was that Book had never been champ after he himself won it was crazy

[@JMFSpike]

I think that once Booker told him he'd never been champ he was instantly hit with a jolt of immense guilt as he suddenly realized that it wasn't okay for him to be holding the title. I feel awful for David Arquette. He is one of the biggest victims of all when it comes to all the shit that happened in WCW.

[@DEATHROW19]

But David said in an interview... All the money wcw gave him, he gave it to charity

[@deadlymixx]

You think that because Arquette literally said this lol. Stop trying to pass it off as your own wisdom.

[@cooldaddyslick6869]

??? English next time please.

[@James-xx4kb]

@@cooldaddyslick6869😂😂😂

[@hitmangfx7162]

I was tuned out of WCW at this time (Bash at the Beach 2000), but I remember how cool it was seeing Scott Steiner vs Booker on the last Nitro fighting for the title, because I had followed their careers when they were tag team guys.

[@andyzuleta5344]

They both seem like the realest dudes in the wrestling business.

[@MrBrockHeinz]

WCW ain't paying the bills so he can be honest about this one. The Triple H WM19 one on the other hand...

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

Exactly

[@nomad155]

What happened there

[@OfficalDollarSignz]

Triple H had a rasict ass promo and then went on to beat the shit out of booker t n win when that should have been booker t s time then​@nomad155

[@Dusterbugless]

He scared me with the 45 seconds. I washed my car, cut my grass, and painted my house in 45 seconds

[@jtsra7]

😂 This comment wins!

[@franklingoodwin]

I felt that too 😂

[@ODGtheToyman1974]

He made me sit my ass back down & listen with that one🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Dusterbugless]

@@ODGtheToyman1974 he’s a teddy bear until he gets mad. I remember when he ripped that guys shirt enough on tough enough

[@micksawyer1112]

Hogan did the same thing, too, Sting at Starcade. Like it's always been said, "That doesn't work for me, brother." he doesn't have any integrity and also dodged Bret Hart as well.

[@TheBlackTarot95]

Facts that is why they had the fast count spot

[@ExplisitHipHop]

True. Do you remember that The Mega Powers were 2 men and beat the Hart Foundation and Honky? 2 beating 3.

[@CodyvsEveryone]

At the end of day Hogan drew money . Hart didn't and neither did Booker

[@TheMrCC21]

​@@CodyvsEveryoneAt that point Hulk Hogan wasn't the draw he used to be. Even if he was, WCW was such dire straits that it didn't matter.

[@jackdediosgonzalez2953]

You seem to forget hogan was a business man first if a wrestler at the time don't complement his character at the time hogan won't wrestle.and that's crap about sting how many times hogan put sting over in wcw and tna because hogan was making more money when the time is right to put wrestlers over

[@Juggalo94]

Thank You too Jeff Jarrett for putting Book over especially since Hogan didn’t wanna do it smh

[@josephrusso8135]

are you serious

[@Juggalo94]

@@josephrusso8135 yes

[@thesupervisor3270]

His match was against Kanyon which he lost. The World Championship match was always Jeff vs Hogan. Book didn’t found out he was winning the World championship until like the match before him and Jeff. He’s a liar

[@kingbullyrock8739]

@@Juggalo94 Sorry boy, that PPV was booked and advertised in advanced as Hogan vs Jarrett for the title

[@EVGriffinJr]

@@kingbullyrock8739 yes it was, but plans to put the belt on booker also made, and it was being saved as a surprise. But Hogan wanted it changed where he wanted the title straight up with no surprise of Booker winning it. That’s been recently before the special even aired.

[@mr.lamont1420]

On today. This Booker T interview hits different for me, being a wrestling fan. Thank u B.T. for being transparent.

[@ruggeddrelouris3597]

Um so glad BOOKER AT is finally SPEAKING UP on this shit, I hope he speaks up on how the HHH loss at wrestlemania affected him

[@thesupervisor3270]

Booker is lying! His match was vs Kanyon. (Which he lost) The match was always Hogan vs Jeff so how was he’s winning the World championship in days prior? I wrote this before and they erase my comments because it’s true

[@ruggeddrelouris3597]

I want him one day to speak up on how he REALLY THOUGHT Vince Mcmahon and HHH didnt view him as a A-1 champ because of his skin color and dreads, if D-X did racist jokes to Mark Henry then I know HHH felt some way about King Booker

[@davidbaker5250]

Well isn't he still under a contract with wwe? He's not going to talk shit about anything wwe

[@ruggeddrelouris3597]

@@davidbaker5250 yeah tru, is he still on the panel show before WWE PPV, but times before in-between contracts maybe he should of voice himself

[@davidbaker5250]

@ruggeddrelouris3597 maybe he doesn't want to burn a bridge. I th8nk talking about "what could've happened" is irrelevant now. He had a great career. I'm a Hulkamaniac and know Hogan was a political dick backstage. But if the higher ups are letting him get away with it than he's going to keep doing it. A lot of people would to better their career if given the chance

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Hogan wanted to chase Flair. Booker is right. Hogan only saw good business as whatever business was good for him.

[@romans52345-cy3tq]

As he fuckin should, It's a cutthroat business

[@deepblue8143]

​@romans52345-cy3tq exactly!! No one is going to look out for you but YOU!! I'm so sick of all of the hypocrites in the comment section.

[@LoveProWrestling]

Hogan being the forever champion, isnt good for business though. Especially not in the latter half of his career.

[@MortonT1958]

Hogan drew money both as Hulk Hogan and as the arrogant heel Hollywood Hogan. He didn’t need to always have the title, but he did at least need to be in the picture for a title shot.

[@NinerNeto]

Guys like taker and Scott Hall put other people over all the time and still regarded as the greats. ​@@deepblue8143

[@prestonpfeiffer]

Bret Hart said it best… Bischoff was Hogan’s puppet to enforce his creative control. And I like Eric but even in this he cant admit Hogan ever did ANYTHING wrong when he literally helped create zero stars,changed finishes and want ppv matches on regular tv so he could pop the rating.

[@hitek9too255]

Bret just mad cause he couldn't draw like Hogan, Flair, or even Goldberg or HBK who he constantly bashes. Even Hunter was a bigger draw than overrated Bret.

[@SwankLeSuave_25]

@@hitek9too255there’s still time to delete this

[@kochayeo]

@@hitek9too255 in what way was Bret Hart not a draw? Explain.🧐

[@burntvirtue]

Booker didn't you see Bischoff & Hogan do the same thing to Sting 3 years earlier? And Bret Hart 4 years before that? Hogan ALWAYS gets his way...BROTHER!

[@THEREALLORDJ]

🥱

[@burntvirtue]

@@THEREALLORDJ Where's the lie?

[@THEREALLORDJ]

@@burntvirtue YEAH IM SURE GETTING HIS WAY INCLUDED DESTROYING TWO COMPANIES HE WAS GETTING TONS OF REVENUE FROM!!!

[@ScroogeMcBucks]

All I heard was "🗣️ Hulk Hogan...we coming for you 🥷🏿...🤦🏿‍♂️".... Now lemme get this same energy with your match with Triple H at mania. Let it out

[@sakurarozu]

Cant that's his boss lol

[@ScroogeMcBucks]

@@sakurarozu 🤣🤣

[@AliFrankTheTank]

he doesn’t feel that way about that match lmaooo

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

he's always been about the money, everything else doesn't matter to him since he got paid

[@megavolt67]

He's such a sock puppet for WWE that he'll never do that. But of course it's okay and probably encouraged by WWE themselves to trash anything WCW related.

[@theescapists6794]

So, Hogan didn't need the title...but him and Bischoff didn't really want Booker T to have the title? Yeah, they're both pieces of shit for that.

[@JUSLOFI]

Booker T - "Hulk Hogan, We comin' for you _________" Hogan - "...And I Took That Personally"

[@THEREALLORDJ]

🙄

[@JUSLOFI]

@@THEREALLORDJ 😄

[@jesse76th96]

Booker made my childhood great. put some respect on his name 💯

[@fatstaxx1247]

Bret Hart always said Hogan was a 🐍 in the grass.

[@goodbuttah7049]

An accomplice to the crime....u got 45 seconds 😂 bookem

[@sdo1840]

I always say, booker was greatest organic WCW talent, immense worker, super energy and charisma. While hogan, sting nash, etc. All played politics booker was flying round the ring. There's a reason he was the only one who was a success in WWF after invasion

[@RealityOfWrestling]

Facts

[@michaelmilnermixing]

Shout out Vince Russo for giving a black man a chance.

[@TheBlackTarot95]

Losing to a black guy "doesn't work for me brother" I'm sick of Hogan

[@jd9119]

He didn't lose to a black guy though. What happened was in storyline, Russo had Jarrett lay down in the ring for hogan to pin him immediately. Russo threw the belt in the ring and told Hogan to take it. So Hogan pins Jarrett, but then decides to "walk out" of WCW and in doing so surrenders the belt. Russo then says Jarrett is the world champion, then sets up an impromptu match between Jarrett and Booker T, which Booker T won.

[@joshuaberlin9419]

don't play the race card dude, that's just cheap of you.

[@deepblue8143]

Aww poor you playing the race card and playing the victim, imagine that.

[@TheBlackTarot95]

@@jd9119 he didn't want to drop it to booker so that is why the came up with that whole bash at the beach angle

[@TheBlackTarot95]

@@joshuaberlin9419 his is a racist and he was on tape

[@danieldaniel8883]

Booker is right, Hogan winning the WCW again and wasn't going to do anything for the company, Hogan was long in the tooth and how many times are you going go back to the same dried up well. WCW could have been so much better and still been in business.

[@Justlight-88]

We loved u booker.. you was one of our fav.. dont be sad dude.. u hav been one of the best... i used to watch your gights in wcw in the late 90s... and yrust me, the part of the eorld m from, u wont even knoe how famous u hv been sir ...

[@ChrisStoecker]

That really sums up WCW back then. I was a loyal WCW guy at the time so I was getting the PPV anyway. Imagine how bad things had to be to think having Booker T win his first world title & his fans that didn't buy the PPV don't get to see it because he wasn't advertised to wrestle for the belt was a good idea. How the hell most of the people who knew including Booker didn't ask why wouldn't we promote the match instead of somehow throwing it in unadvertised is nuts. I'm surprised Booker is so pissed at Hogan when Booker vs Hogan means way more $$ down the road than Booker wins unadvertised at the Bash at the Beach. He would've made more money than he's ever had in his life. What a mess they were & I watched that stuff religiously. Was actually happy that night but I was under the impression it was spur of the moment. Hearing Book knew days in advance is just more proof of what a shitshow that place was at the time

[@ToneyHolley]

Spot On!!

[@1788deon]

Being cool with how a situation went down only to find out more bs. Booker got every right to be mad. He really just want this situation to stay in the past.

[@BeastNationXIV]

"How stupid does that make me look?" - I don't think I've ever heard Booker hit that note. 😂

[@mr.whisper3338]

That just had to be the most deflating feeling ever when creative control is invoked in wrestling.

[@roninmarketing4048]

The only two things I give VR credit for are making Booker and Steiner champions. Booker 100% deserved it and probably long before that. He put the work in for a decade at that point. I am glad he got his deserved recognition. He is beloved by everyone. It sucks to see the pain in his eyes when he talks about this.

[@thomastipton4666]

If WCW would have given guys like you a bigger push and better storylines they would still be around.

[@DJObiSmalls]

Unfortunately, I think Booker was in the crossfire between Bischoff and Russo. I don't think it was anything personal against Booker but I can understand his frustrations.

[@The80s_Baby]

This the realist shit Booker ever said he is right this time and thinking about Hogan racist remarks he never cared about Booker

[@JuggaloDundee]

WCW was trying to compete in the ratings and Jeff Jarret and Booker T were not going to that. But imagine if things had of gone to plan and Booker T got to beat Hogan at Halloween Havoc and taken his career to the next level...

[@bb-gc2tx]

true they had get jarrett out of main event scene nobody bought him as top guy. booker needed be patient let hogan get the title off that clown jarrett

[@sirtavion20]

But that's the thing...Hogan wound have gotten to the ppv and changed the finish smh

[@KaNCeRmm4life]

Eric contradicted himself on his review this week, in one sentence he says the plan was for hulk to "beat" Jarrett the way he did and leave, and there wasnt supposed to be another title match later in the night, there just would of been no champion, which everytime ive heard him or anyone else tell the story, the second title match was always part of the deal, russo going so hard is where it went off the rails.. but then in this same episode, he goes on to say that hulk would of come back at Havoc to win the unification match vs Book... Soooo he was supposed to get the "interim" title? Or he wasn't? wtf.. first time I ever heard Eric get washy on it

[@michaelrayii7102]

Agreed! I also still don't understand why Kevin Nash had to beat Goldberg. Just made no sense at that time! The egos in WCW were out of control! Also, Vince Russo should have never been allowed in there!

[@hitek9too255]

The crowd went nuts when Nash beat Goldberg and he didn't beat him clean. The Wolfpack was extremely popular. What was stupid was the Fingerpoke of Doom.

[@sithari518]

Doing it Bischoff's and Hogan's way, Hogan would still champ to this very day

[@Youdidnthearme]

The hell with Hogan !!! And bischoff is hogan sycophant

[@deepblue8143]

The hell with the greatest of all time? Lol no. Booker is a hypocrite who couldn't lace Hogan's boots.

[@PuertoRocPrime]

This is one of the reasons I’ve always had so much respect for you Booker T. You have such a grounded approach and because of that you come off very fair in your recollection of things. You don’t unnecessarily bury anybody and you don’t overly praise people who you don’t feel deserve it, it’s hard to find that kind of sincerity when it comes to these “shoot” style interviews.

[@emprodabobplays]

"HULK HOGAN! WE COMIN' FOR YOU NGA!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@TheRawdawg]

Booker was in Buffalo NY my wife was at Denny's with her best friend eating and seen him. He sat and talked to them at the bar area. She called me and he talked to me on the phone to prove it was really him because I was a big fan. He's always been one of my favorite wrestlers. He's awesome I doubt any wrestler would have given the time of day.

[@atlsooner85]

I'd be more pissed about WM19 than a company that would ultimately die anyway. I love Booker and grew up with Hulk. But I was upset about WM19

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

You gotta remember that early in Hogan's career he faced Harley Race & Nick Bockwinkle & they never came off the title for him. A similar thing happened in Japan where he was the 1st NJPW Heavyweight Champion but it's not recognized because they want Inoki to be the man. I'm playing Devil's Advocate here but I think Hulk Hogan learned very early on in his career that once he got power that the only way to play this game was to make sure that you kept getting titles and to stay on top and that the belt was not a work. He saw everyone else keeping themselves in the title picture and that the closer they were to the title picture the more money they made. When he saw he had the chance to do that wherever he went he made sure that he never let that power go. The old school world taught him that. So he exercised creative control. Now creative control may not have been a contractual term before Hulk Hogan came around, because before Hulk Hogan everyone else owned the company or was the booker of the company themselves so they were always able to just simply put the title on themselves. Times were a lot different in the 1970s and before. But then again I'm not telling you anything you don't already know ;)

[@KrinklingsMontgomery]

on the money, when hogan came up it was cut throat

[@antione]

1. There have been 3 versions of the IWGP championship that have existed, 4 if you want to include the IWGP 3rd belt. 2. Hulk Hogan was OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED as the first ever IWGP Heavyweight Champion. That version of the title doesn’t exist anymore. 3. When selected to be the first IWGP champion Antonio Inoki (The founder of NJPW) was in power of NJPW. 4. Stop creating lies.

[@hitek9too255]

Hunter, HBK, Bret, Orton, Jarrett, Bockwinkel, Flair all did what Hogan did and Hunter was arguably much worse.

[@Chris-wi3vu]

Was that a Sean O'Haire reference?

[@jamyleach8292]

I can see that too, but wouldn't you want to do better for someone than what was done to you?

[@AliFrankTheTank]

This was his Mania 19 all along

[@robdangripp9406]

Thank Vince Russo he's the one that gave BT the push especially in late 1999 and throughout 2000

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

And all of that was quickly made moot when Russo put the world title on himself at Booker's expense. The ppl who keep bringing this up don't seem to remember that ridiculous cage match because they keep allowing themselves to be charmed by Russo's blatant deception.

[@765thatdude]

Paul did you dirty Booker speak on WM19

[@prettylaurynn]

Did pPaul book the matches at those times ? 🤔

[@WiseQuacker]

Booker T winning the World Championship really worked out well....😂

[@veltg26able]

I always like hulk as a kid but when I was getting older I always wondered why he always won the ppv matches. Watching these stories about how it was behind the scenes. Makes you feel different how feel about the person

[@EvilAce-fs7kv]

You all are restoring my faith in humanity. Thank you for your kind words!

[@bb-gc2tx]

it had nothing do with booker hogan didnt want to put over that clown jarrett and i dont blame him

[@Youtube304s]

Hogan didn't want to put over anyone. Not cleanly.

[@RG-lr4pk]

​@Youtuube304s Goldberg, Sting, Luger, Piper, Warrior, Lesnar, Angle, Rock, etc, etc, etc. Sadly, for you, he wasn't a jobber like your favorite.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@RG-lr4pk jeff jarrett was a joke with go away heat im glad hogan didnt put him over .

[@Youtube304s]

@RG-lr4pk dude, I hated Jarrett. Would change the channel, actually, but hogan was still a clown and ruined WCW.

[@josephrusso8135]

@@KZbin304s you misspelled "made"

[@mabreymachine]

I heard Hulk was offers the roll of Jack in Titanic but declined it because that wasn't going to work for him brother.

[@christopherharte4741]

Booker T loves to troll his audience

[@rondoughhowell6442]

well were you there

[@thesupervisor3270]

His match was against Kanyon that night which he lost. The belt wasn’t chosen to be put on him till maybe a hour before it happened

[@BMoney04]

@@thesupervisor3270he clearly just said he knew 2-3 days before the event so what the hell are you even talking bout?? Guess ur hearing is impaired 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@christopherharte4741]

@@BMoney04 he also said he found out 12 minutes prior in every interview, Booker is trolling you

[@sx2ap]

Vince Russo pretty much helped Booker T win the World Title. Not just by him booking it but due to Russo's shoot promo, that definitely was the deciding factor in Hogan leaving and allowing Booker T to really win without Hogan's creative control lingering over and Bischoff's influence

[@enisengin2950]

Which is why he had to do it.

[@warriorjwr]

Booker is 100 percent right. And has every right to be upset about these revelations coming out.

[@jahdorose8659]

Facts especially regarding hulk

[@jasonbowser5754]

😂😂😂…sure he is

[@johnkudasik3133]

Yeah really souled a lot of merchandise with Booker T’s name on it. I guess Booker you’re going to say Hulk played his creative control card to give Hall and Nash the tag titles. Harlem Heat real money makers there.

[@jodychocolatethunderwillia8957]

@@johnkudasik3133well, Hulk played his creative control card at Starcade 1997 vs Sting. Heck, even Kevin Nash said on various programs that Hulk did this a lot. Jim Cornette has mentioned this. So……….

[@johnkudasik3133]

@@jodychocolatethunderwillia8957 Did he do the job? And Hogan knew to well Sting could not carry a company and this was the third time sting carried the title only to lose it a short term later but unlike you Johnny come lately guess what they had a rematch the next night on Nitro and guess what the same story line except no loser Bret Hart to ruin it. And Nash is still pissed off that when the Nwo returned to the wwf in 2003 Hogan stoled the show against the Rock and short time later was given the world title again while Hall Nash where quickly pushed to the back of the line.

[@jay5286]

But says nothing about HHH making him look stupid at wrestlemania 19

[@deepblue8143]

Of course not because he's a hypocrite, he knows who's still writing his check. Still dancing for the man.

[@taneyahbenn]

Still getting paid by WWE

[@knowledgeuntamed9177]

Hogan coming out after, staring him down, then lifting his hand. Then Monday cutting a Promo of Hogan vs Booker T...Does that save Wcw? 😳🤷🏻

[@MaximusX67]

"That doesn't work for me brother" .... 0_o

[@thesupervisor3270]

Ok #1 Russo was the booker not Eric. #2 how did Booker know he was gonna win the World Belt 3 days prior when his match was vs Kanyon which he lost. #3 the World championship match was against Jeff and Hogan. That match between Jeff and Booker was made maybe a few hours before the show tops! #4 Eric was talking about Starrcade 97 what does Bash at the Beach have to do with that!?

[@LordBLKRamen]

I watched that Darkside of the ring episode…it’s really thanks to Vince Russo that Booker T won the championship and called out Hogan and Bishoff live on the PPV for their bullshit.

[@trevordavis5053]

Booker probably had the best WWE run of any WCW guy. But I still think it should have been more. I don't think he had Rock level charisma, but he was good enough to be the face of the company. He could definitely hang with Rock and Austin.

[@NoreenOMahony-zd2tp]

Best thing is Bischoff will definitely respond to this 😊

[@darnelldarden9429]

Damn if Booker is still this mad about it, imagine how furious he must have been at that time. He made some great points here and I agree with him.

[@KingLouis_Trakking]

Hogan has messed up a lot of people Of Push. Zeus. Curt Henning. Bad News Allen. Randy Savage. Bret Hart. Sting. Chris Benoit. Kidman. Eddie Guerrero. So many people he screwed over

[@jd9119]

LOL Zeus? Come on, if there is anybody who should never have been in a wrestling ring, it was Deebo.

[@KingLouis_Trakking]

@@jd9119 Zeus was supposed to win the title from Hogan at WrestleMania 6

[@wendelleasports]

Jake the Snake was a huge screw job by the hulkster

[@jd9119]

@@KingLouis_Trakking Thank God Warrior saved us from that.

[@shantb6548]

Don't forget pretending that the Undertaker broke his neck to get the belt back!

[@alpunterjr6360]

That night didn't work for the Hulkster brother 😂

[@ernestharlenjr3155]

Booker T Shoulda Won At Wrestlemania 19

[@TheRealVerbalAbuser]

Booker T is too scared to call out Triple H for what he did.

[@JayCity10]

This version of Booker T isn't, WCW Booker T.

[@jaredgarrison333]

I’m a booker fan, but like all of us capitalists, hogan was about more money for him. He wanted the title that night, and a storyline where he comes back at a ppv months later and basically says I’m the real world champ and if you think you can take out the king, come see me in a ppv main event. And then have another ppv main event after that. There is no retirement pension in pro wrestling so get all you can get when you can. Hogan was prolly in the screen actors guild at the time so he probably had health care and some smaller pension at the time. But still like most of us would have been at the time, hogan wanted to keep getting 6 figure payoffs for one nights work based off long term storytelling.

[@EE-md2lr]

For all the movies he made, the actor's guild gave him a retirement pension, much like they did with Jessie, and cared for his medical needs. Hogan's problem was not coming to grips with the fact that his time in the ring was done; his heel turn gave him that shot in the arm longer than it should, but I say around 97-98 people were done with Hollywood Hogan, and the NWO and instead of being the veteran to pass the torch and help lead the younger guys he tried everything and anything to stay at the top. Once guys like Chris Jericho appeared in the WWF, WCW's death clock was ticking...

[@ThomasWilliams-hj2hu]

Your mad at hulk Hogan but not HHH for making a racist remark and you Lost at WrestleMania

[@ThaGreatKhali]

He told you personally that he wasn’t disappointed in HHH also? When and where did he say HHH wasn’t as bad as Hogan?

[@Highroller16]

Who are you to tell someone where put there anger

[@camerondalton1495]

To be fair, he said he wasn't upset about that.

[@RG-lr4pk]

WWE and Triple K writes his checks. WCW, Hogan, and Bischoff are the current punching bags.

[@ThomasWilliams-hj2hu]

​@@ThaGreatKhalibecause I'm a fan and he has committed on this before

[@doublez_]

The people most right about EB/Hulk/WCW's downfall are Bret and Flair and they've been called bitter and everything but EB has fooled us all to lead us believe he is not the biggest carny in wrestling history who played with his toy box, then when Hulk came Hulk just took over while EB watched.

[@benrichardson8099]

I see bookers point it was 2000 and it was time to put the belt on the younger stars and Hogan probably should have put the card away and agreed to the plan..

[@jamisonlamkin5576]

Why does everyone hate Dark Side of the Ring so much?

[@themobseat]

it's a great show! It is capturing history before even more wretlers pass away without their stories being told.

[@SUPASLY75]

Triple H kind of did the same thing to Booker during his run

[@igniferlogan7099]

💯 Booker. I'm 100 percent agreeing, my man

[@Aizenborgman]

Do not act as if Hogan's decision to win was a mistake and as if everything else was fine. Hogan did not steal Booker T's moment. Because the original plan was, since Hulk won over Kidman at the Great American Bash, that if he beat Kidman, he would fight the world champion at Bash at the Beach, and the decision for Booker to win did not come until a day or two before Bash at the Beach. The match announced a month ago was Hulk Hogan vs. Jeff, not Booker T vs. Jeff. Hogan didn't steal his moment in the first place. In addition, what did the belt do to Booker T? He lost the belt to Russo lol.

[@vincentgarrett6764]

Another Hogan apologists I guess he didn't screw Sting,Brett, Undertaker,Macho,Jake,JYD,ETC

[@moncourrier1707]

If Vince Russo wasn't that talented like some claim why are some of wrestlings most memorable moments created by Vince Russo?

[@Mandrew1983]

Lost a lot of respect for Booker here. It looks like him and Brad Segal and Russo colluded. Take away his moment? If he was meant to be champion he would have been drawing enough to be made champion before Bash at the Beach.

[@pedroalvarez9492]

I can literally hear booker saying tell me you just didn't say that to bischoff 😂

[@fredcasdensworld]

Booker's logic is like a bucket with holes.... doesn't hold water

[@Titanscw]

How

[@vcreed79]

Well now that we know who hogan truly is this doesn't surprise me.

[@PaulJackson729]

The biggest loser in that whole Bash At The Beach disaster was not Jeff Jarrett. It was Booker, and he won the title.

[@pablow1275]

Booker hands is crazy

[@twomorningsbackfromyesterd1240]

I really want to hear him go off and be completely candid about that bulls--t Triple H angle and loss.

[@Q2k7]

When his contract runs up then he might.

[@twomorningsbackfromyesterd1240]

@@Q2k7 True.

[@joshwalters4245]

I'm so pissed that they did that to Booker I can't text right the WCW episodes on Vice are really good

[@ApexLodestar]

You can hear and even feel Booker T's disappointment. But I'm glad everything still worked out for him. Booker T is a great asset.

[@paulgonzalez2823]

Eric bishoff killed WCW due to the outrageous contracts he gave to Nash hall and hogan and how he was all over hogan's nuts . He was just happy to be one of the guys in nwo . Eric killed WCW

[@Nick_Nightingale]

Booker should have won Wrestlemania 19 and had at least a 5 - 6 month title reign.

[@attiepollard7847]

Nope not his time yet

[@chrissayeranderson5710]

Booker was never tarnished with that negativity of coming from WCW, unlike a lot of the others , he became a bigger star when he left and handled his business correctly in WWE , he seems to have agreed or followed through with everything WWE offered him and got through it as a Hall Of fame wrestler and is still relevant and helping the next generation how many people who went to WWE in that era are they with that legacy,nobody apart from Booker. Bischoff has never and will never say anything negative about Hogan .

[@RatgenerationX]

I wasn't much of a fan of Booker T. However, i respect the hell out of the man.

[@rainkloud]

Fascinating psychology on display. Just saw another recent Booker T interview (which brought me here) and Booker sounded and acted totally different. Like a totally different person almost. It's remarkable how people's appearances can change so dramatically when they are in various environments and speaking on topics that evoke strong emotions.

[@Bigjizay]

Speaking as a Hulk Hogan fan, I'm glad Booker T won the title that night. Hogan winning the belt then wouldn't have made a difference.

[@xGhostRidah]

"Take some want some, but you better be bad enough to take some sucka" -harlem heat booker t

[@nurdleefvo2011]

Imagine what Book winning at XIX would’ve done for him and for his fans

[@billyblanx1434]

Precaite Booker for adding 'credulity' to my vocabulary

[@RealityOfWrestling]

👏👏👏

[@y2k704]

One of the good things Russo did was pushing Booker T to be the champion, such a great talent

[@breauxcewayne1971]

Bischoffs loyalty to Hogan was one of WCW’s biggest downfall’s creatively. Starrcade 97, Goldberg world title on Nitro are just 2 huge blunders. That was in 1997, 1998. In 2000 Hogan winning the world title wasn’t going to do anything for WCW. Hogan couldn’t get it done in the ring anymore and wouldn’t get out the way for what could have been the new generation in WCW. Hogan did a lot for WCW but his ego thinking he was still the man way past his prime what seriously hurt the company creatively. Hogan was Rock at Wrestlemania 18 was awesome because of the Toronto crowd. Hogan was still a good attraction for big matches here and there but to be the man with title…. Nope.

[@jeffhutchinson1164]

Booker deserved all his success . When he started having solo matches you could see it. He has a cool moveset, did everything clean and sold his opponents offense. WWE while made some mistakes (HHH) they still put him in a position to look like a main event talent. One of my all time favorites

[@YahushaisYahuahssalvation]

Booker should be happy he made as much money as he did because of Hogan. I understand how he feels though. Booker T was one of my favorites during his hay day.

[@the.real.novatic1]

I wish Booker T's solo career in WCW could have started sooner.