During a recent edition of his “Hall of Fame” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T reacted to the Hell In A Cell match between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre at WWE Bad Blood 2024.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On sitting in the front row for CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre’s Hell in a Cell match: “I just wanted to be up close and personal with that match right there. I got a lot of investors in that match. Of course CM Punk and I, we go back a long way. Drew McIntyre, he was there when things were happening in the locker room. And he saw a lot of things as far as CM Punk, the way CM Punk was. But people change, people change. But sometimes, people still hold grudges at the same time. So for me, I want to see that match up close and personal.
“And I tell you man, those guys went out there, they went to war. I think Drew got 25 staples or something like that in his head. And it was a bloody, bloody affair to where, he was leaking pretty badly in that match. But CM Punk as well, he left everything in the ring. He went out there and still performed at a high level, gave the fans exactly what they wanted. He got to win. I thought it was a good match.”
On the bleeding in the bout: “It is something that you have to do, I think, in a match like that to really give it that feel. And I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of that coming up in the near future with WWE. A little bit more, you know, blood and guts type wrestling like it used to be. And for me that’s always just been a part of wrestling.”
During a recent edition of his “Something To Wrestle” podcast, Bruce Prichard expressed his disdain for scaffold matches, Jim Crockett Promotions making them famous, and other topics.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On scaffold matches: “Yeah, I thought the scaffold matches sucked. The scaffold match sucked — here’s some how many levels the scaffold match. Half your audience can’t see it. Your highest price tickets, ringside, can’t see it. They’re doing this [looks up], and they’re seeing the bottom of a scaffold. So your highest-priced tickets can’t see what the hell’s going on. The matches suck because 98% of the people that were put into the scaffold matches didn’t want to be in the scaffold match. They didn’t want to drop 22 feet or however many feet to a ring, to the concrete to a crash pad. I don’t want to drop 22 feet.”
On them being boring: “The matches were boring, they stunk, they hurt people. And then — you know, you hurt somebody on the first match of a loop. Scaffold matches, you’re screwed for the loop. And then you put somebody else in there. Hurt somebody else. By the time you’re done, you have no roster. So I felt that the scaffold match was an absolutely silly and asinine idea.”
On the worst match gimmick: “King of the Hill match is still the absolute worst concept for a match in God’s green earth. Folks don’t even try and find a worse concept for a match. It’s the worst.”
