Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer Booker T who is a former 5 times WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently looked back at his Tag Team partnership with Goldust and talked about it.
Booker T and Goldust became a tag team back in 2002. Booker was having an excellent main event push after he joined WWE back in 2001 when his previous promotion WCW was purchased by WWE. Much like a lot of other WCW start he transitioned to WWE as well.
Booker T Looks Back At His Tag Team Run With Goldust
Fans expected to see his push would continue but after the WWE vs Alliance storyline was over at the end of 2001, WWE BIG not have very high plans for the former five times WCW World Heavyweight Champion. He was mostly having non title feuds with mid card wrestlers. After he lost his WrestleMania X8 bout against Edge was a mid card back in the time it became quite clear that WWE did not want to push him as a main event start anymore.
He had a number of feuds with different WWE stars that in the time including his feud with the Big Show which he won. After number of months he teamed up with Goldust and they started a feud against the stable named the Un-Americans. Bigger stars like Kane also joined them on this feud.
At the Armageddon pay per view event of 2002 which was the last pay per view event of the mentioned year, they defeated Christian and Chris Jericho to win the WWE World Tag Team Championship together. But they dropped the titles after 22 days only never to recapture it again. The Tag Team did not last long after that for very long either.
Booker T who is a former 5 times WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke on his Hall Of Fame podcast where he looked back at his Tag Team partnership with Goldust and talked about it. He said;
“We definitely had perhaps the most memorable run out of all my WWE tag team partners, you know, RVD, Test, but Goldust, man we had so much fun each and every week. It was like a night off. I remember Goldy and I were in the locker room one day. It was just him and I, nobody else
“ Goldy looked at me and said, ‘Hey Book, can you believe they pay us to do this?’ We both started laughing. It was like the best time in our careers. It wasn’t about wrestling or anything like that. It was about entertainment, but we still went out and tried to make sure the wrestling meant something to the fans when Goldy and I did it.”
“When Goldy and I broke up, you could look in the audience and people were crying real tears. It was awesome. It was an awesome run, me and Goldy.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription