The USFL’s Memphis Showboats had open tryouts and Sid made it all the way to the final cut.
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It was maybe a year and a half or so before Undertaker came and, ‘hey Book, come over here and dress with us in the WWE locker room.Sid loved sports and participated in track, football, basketball and so on in high school. I’m the five-time champ.’ Naw, I wanted to go out there and say, ‘hey guys, I’m going to pull my weight.’ And I did that. I wasn’t just coming there and I didn’t want to bring my accolades from WCW and say, ‘hey guys, I’m here now. Coming from WCW, I wanted to prove to the guys in the locker room that I was worthy of being there. It was about shutting Ted Turner’s group down. It was about raising the WWE flag by winning the war. And if you didn’t have tough skin, you going to last very long there. Ric Flair always said, ‘a wrestler’s worst enemy is time off’, so I didn’t want to sit out and lose my momentum.”īooker T on being prepared for a frigid reception in WWE: “I was prepared for that and a lot of those guys not prepared for what we were getting ready to expect and that was to get beaten up, bruised, battered, and torn. And I was willing to bank on myself there again and my talent. I still had, like, a year and a half left on my contract and I was making a lot of money. Just about every one of the other guys did that unless their contract was up. I could take a 50% buyout or I could have sat out the duration of my contract and took the money. I was, like, the first guy to leave the company and walk in the door. Just about every Canadian I’ve been in the ring with has been like that, but the best of seven was by far something that I never could have imagined doing.”īooker T on taking a 50 percent buyout contract to jump to WWE: “I took a buyout. We trained the same way, the same guidelines. It has always been like we’ve gone to the same school. But the thing is, not just Benoit, I tell people all the time, the Canadians, period, always able to bring something out of me that no one else has been able to bring anything out. Maybe he can go to the next level.’”īooker T on Canadian wrestlers: “I never knew how good I was until I got in the ring with Benoit. I say all the time, those were the matches that made people look at me and say, ‘man, maybe this guy got it.
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The best of seven matches with Chris second to none in my career. Chris pushed me to a level that no one had ever pushed me to, to make me go out there and rise to something special and I’m like, ‘wow’.
SID VICIOUS PLAYING SOFTBALL SERIES
Get in that camera’s face and cut it’.”īooker T on his Best of Seven series with Chris Benoit being a major turning point for his career: “Those matches gave me a chance to see how good I was. They’re not going to give you guys any promo time, but make sure you cut your promo on the way to the ring. I remember Sid telling us, ‘you know, guys, you’re not going to get any promo time. He made sure we got a raise every month.”īooker T on how he learned a lot from Sid: “It was awesome to have someone like Sid backing us all the way and I always give Sid a lot of credit. Six months later, we were in Atlanta, Georgia and not only did he bring us to WCW, but he put us up in his apartment for about three months. He said, ‘whatever I’ve got to do, I’m going to get you here’. I want to do some office work and you guys are my first project’ and we were like, ‘cool, man’. He said, ‘I’m going to do everything to get you guys into WCW and I have a project that I’m trying to get into the office. And all of that is true! But he brought us in.
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He’ll leave a building on a whim to go play some softball. Sid has always had a reputation of being a hardcore guy. Below are some highlights:īooker T on how Sid Vicious brought him and Stevie Ray to WCW: “ wanted to help us and a lot of people really don’t know that part of Sid Vicious. Chris Jericho recently interviewed WWE Hall of Famer Booker T for the Talk Is Jericho podcast.