Two times WWE Hall of Famer Booker T who is also a former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon and potentially buying latest competition the All Elite Wrestling.
There are lot of speculations going around the world of professional wrestling which suggest that the owner of WWE Vince McMahon is trying to buy his latest competition AEW. The newly founded promotion is gaining a lot of support from the world of professional wrestling fans it is definitely a huge matter of worry for WWE right now.
Booker T Speaks On Vince McMahon Potentually Buying AEW
In history WWE purchase their rivals many times. The latest example of this type of purchase has to be the takeover on WCW and ECW. These two professional wrestling promotions were the biggest threats of WWE back in the 1990s. The popularity of ECW was growing day by day. ECW revolutionized the term extreme. But their financial issues were the biggest bar in front of them. Vince McMahon took the advantage of the situation and brought the promotion.
Similar thing happens to WCW as well. There was a time when WCW was a bigger promotion than WWE. But there were a lot of issues, they made so many big mistakes, including weak bookings. It drove the promotion go extinct. Once again Vince McMahon took the advantage of the situation by buying the promotion.
Booker T who is also a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently during an episode of his Hall of Fame Podcast talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon and potentially buying latest competition the All Elite Wrestling. He said;
“Hey man, never say never,” Booker said. “I’m not saying that could ever happen or wouldn’t happen, but I’m not going to say it is going to happen. You might be waiting a long time. The WCW guys were waiting 12 years for Vince McMahon to buy WCW. He finally did, but it was a long battle, a long war, a lot of bodies and casualties of war.
“When he did buy it, there were even more casualties, guys never wrestled in the business from a big time perspective ever again after WCW doors closed down. Me personally, I’m not one of these guys that’s going to be talking about, ‘man, I wish these guys would go out of business or anything like that,’ because every guy that has a job in this business is a good thing.
“One thing about WWE, they cannot supply every wrestler out there that wants to do this. For me, it’s all about guys being able to live out that dream, doing one percent at the highest level and being able to look back on their legacy.
“And hopefully you fans got to win more than anybody because you got to see two awesome companies at the same time just like it was back in the day. WCW, WWE, it was two awesome wrestling companies that you guys got to see. Even though we made it a war– and the only reason it was a war was because it was that damn good. Just enjoy the ride.”
Credit: Hall of Fame Podcast. H/T 411Mania