Can We Talk About Booker T In TNA?

[Emmet Russell]

Have you ever seen a guy with less motivation in your entire life? Guy gave less shits than Batista in the last 5-months of his career, and instead of becoming great because of how little he cared, he became worse.

Bruce Willis in Die Hard 5 is ashamed with how badly Booker phoned it in in that time period.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

The only good thing he did in TNA was the RESPEEEECK thing. Other than that, he was the epitome of ex-WWE stars coming in and taking everything and giving back nothing.

[lildude8218]

It did seem like a very selfish run. Especially when they created a title just for him and it somehow still has ties to the company.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Feb 10, 2017 21:21:25 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

It did seem like a very selfish run. Especially when they created a title just for him and it somehow still has ties to the company.

Well, until last year. The Legends Global Television King of the Mountain title is now gone with the Grand Dad championship in its place.

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Can we talk about Black Snow instead.

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Remember his accent that kept changing

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Everybody who worked there came out and said that he was a pain in the ass to work with

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

He basically destroyed Samoa Joe's title reign with their title matches.

[Welfare Willis]

Feb 10, 2017 22:43:34 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Everybody who worked there came out and said that he was a pain in the ass to work with

Just curious, any stories behind that?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Feb 10, 2017 22:58:10 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

Feb 10, 2017 22:43:34 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Everybody who worked there came out and said that he was a pain in the ass to work with

Just curious, any stories behind that?

Jim Cornette said that Booker was lazy and that the legends belt was created to appease him.

In his rf shoot, AJ said that Booker looked down on the talent and wasn't open to ideas.

Bad Influence I think implied that the guy was lazy.

[cabbageboy]

I recall going to a TNA house show in March 2009 where Booker faced Rhino and it was a pretty crappy match. At one point when Booker had a chinlock applied I turned to my friend and said "Booker T is just cashing the paycheck tonight." His response? "That's all he ever does."

That said, Chet Lemon and Black Snow were a tremendous joke announce team.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Him doing a heel beatdown while doing commentary on the house mic is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Buried the shit out of the babyfaces but it entertained me.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

OK, I found another few and far between bright spot of Booker's TNA run. THE SCISSORS KICK IN A SUIT.

[Rave]

I've heard him described as the most selfish man in the company, no surprise there.

For a pretty big chunk of time, there was a lot of phoning it in done by members of MEM not named Angle or Steiner. It quickly got very annoying.

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

he somehow was lazier than Kevin Nash. think about THAT for a second.

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

I remember him doing an injury spot where he was completely over the top selling it.

"OOOOOHH MY BACK....AAAAAAWWWWGGHHH MAN! MAHBACK! OOOOOHHH OH OH OHHHHHWWW!!"

[Spider2024]

Feb 10, 2017 21:19:35 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

The only good thing he did in TNA was the RESPEEEECK thing. Other than that, he was the epitome of ex-WWE stars coming in and taking everything and giving back nothing.

RESPECT!

[Chainsaw]

Feb 10, 2017 21:53:04 GMT -5 @thickmcrunfast said:

Can we talk about Black Snow instead.

It was all worth it just for that small little moment in time.

[The Ichi]

It was definitely a "I guess I'll just wallow here until WWE wants me back" kind of run.

[________ has left the building]

I love Booker T but damn did he slum his TNA stint. When I talk about TNA hiring guys who was more about putting themselves over than trying to help the company, Booker is one of the main offenders. He stop giving a f*** about his wrestling and did things for his amusement. Yet TNA kept rewarding him because he was a big star in WCW and WWE.