Legendary skilled wrestler Booker T shall be one of many 4 coaches tasked to seek out the subsequent high competitor on the upcoming A&E sequence “WWE Legends and Future Greats.”
The present, also called “WWE LFG,” takes 16 budding skilled wrestlers and lets them study beneath the guided eyes of Booker T, Mickie James, Undertaker and Bubba Ray Dudley. Whereas every coach has their very own kinds and backgrounds, Booker T has expertise as a coach.
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A fan, proper, takes an image with WWE wrestler Booker T earlier than the Houston Dynamo play the Seattle Sounders within the first leg of the MLS Western Convention Championship at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston on Nov. 21, 2017. (Thomas B. Shea-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Booker T is the founding father of the unbiased promotion Actuality of Wrestling (ROW), which grew to become an unbiased wrestling faculty for WWE’s newest developmental program, WWE ID. Very like his fellow coaches, he has been by means of the ups and downs that professional wrestling has to supply. He has been a world champion with WWE, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Complete Nonstop Motion (TNA) Wrestling, and he has been on the unbiased and worldwide scenes.
He defined to Fox Information Digital in a latest interview what he’s on the lookout for in a professional wrestler.
“How a lot coronary heart they’ve, how a lot they actually, really need it, and the way far they’re keen to go as a result of with skilled wrestling, I inform my college students, it’s not going to return to you,” he mentioned. “You bought to go to it so far as the finding out aspect of it.
“Do you actually wish to be an expert wrestler or do you wish to simply play wrestling? It’s so many alternative components that goes into it. However I’m on the lookout for the man that desires it. It’s onerous to evaluate a e-book by its cowl since you would possibly see the one man, he could have all the things on the surface you’re on the lookout for, however it might have zero on the within that you simply’re on the lookout for. However, it could possibly be completely the other.”
Other than being a prolific singles competitor with a number of world championship reigns, Booker T broke into WCW as a tag-team wrestler together with his brother, Stevie Ray. The 2 had been often known as the Harlem Warmth and took the tag-team scene by storm.
Former WWE Celebrity Booker T cuts a promo for the upcoming 2020 Royal Rumble to be held at Minute Maid Park, on Sept. 18, 2019 in Houston. (Bob Levey/Getty Photographs)
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The Harlem Warmth had been 10-time tag-team champions in WCW. Booker T additionally received tag titles with Rob Van Dam, Goldust and Check.
He advised Fox Information Digital he was not on the lookout for one individual to have a sure specialty, quite an individual who is prepared for any kind of problem.
“I’m on the lookout for somebody who can discover themselves in conditions, and it doesn’t matter what the scenario is, they know tips on how to determine it out,” he mentioned. “A variety of these guys are coping with this competitors from nearly each facet we presumably can put them in – from a tag-team perspective, from a singles perspective, from a shock perspective.
“There’s going to be so many alternative components that we’re going to place them by means of. They’re going to, like I say, run the gambit so far as that goes. However I’m on the lookout for somebody who’s ready for these conditions as a result of, identical to I’ve been speaking to my college students since day one, preparation is the one luck you’re going to have in making it on this enterprise.”
“WWE Legends and Future Greats” options 4 coaches making an attempt to develop the subsequent nice celebrity. (A&E)
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“WWE Legends and Future Greats” is on A&E at 8 p.m. ET beginning Sunday.
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