Should wrestling journalists and interviewers who share ‘false’ information be banned from backstage? Teddy Long certainly believes so.
During a recent episode of his “Hall of Fame” podcast, Booker T took issue with Dave Meltzer, who he believes is “spoiling” plans for wrestlers before they make it to TV.
Booker T compared this to spoiling the ending of a movie and argued that he and Bryan Alvarez should be banned from wrestling events.
On a recent edition of the “WrestleBinge” podcast, Long was asked for his thoughts on Booker’s comments and shared who he would like to see banned from events. He said,
“If you got people that are putting out stuff that isn’t accurate, then they should be banned. They shouldn’t be back there. If you’re going to be back there, be professional about it. If you got an interview or something, take your camera person, walk up and do it. You’re out of there. Leave the guy alone.
“Move on to the next guy. Don’t be all up in catering trying to eat and mingle with all the talent. That’s not good. Go get your interviews and get on out of there. So I certainly agree that if there’s somebody out there doing interviews out there and then they come out and put something wrong then that’s bad.”
Long did not specify that Meltzer should be banned and made it clear that he doesn’t know the veteran journalist all too well.
For what it’s worth, journalists are never backstage at WWE’s TV tapings.
