Booker T may be synonymous with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), but he was hardly impressed by the promotion when he first joined.
On a recent edition of his “Hall of Fame” podcast, Booker T discussed starting off with WCW and his first impression of the company. He said,
“It was cartoonish. It was the ‘good ole boy’ clique. It was second-rate as far as it wasn’t WWF. It was the way they did it in the south. Wrestling, they had their formula, they had their system, and they tried to stick to it. It wasn’t a whole lot of entertainment going on or anything like that. It was just a wrestling company.”
“When I look back on it, I always tell my brother when we first got into this thing ‘Man, let’s just get our foot in the door. ‘We get our foot in the door, we’ll be able to make some moves…’ And that goes back to my 99%/100% rule. It all started like that back in WCW, because trust me, when we first got to WCW, I wanted to speak up.
“I wanted to say something so bad. But I knew I had no leverage and not a foot to stand on. So I said ‘Let’s get our foot in the door. Let’s show exactly what we can do before we start making moves or anything like that.'”
Booker T would remain with WCW until the company’s very end in 2001 and would hold the United States and World Championship by the end of the final episode of Nitro.
Booker T’s efforts alongside his brother Stevie Ray in WCW would result in the pair being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2019, which marked Booker’s second induction.
