Arn Anderson On Booker T Being The Last WCW Champion

Mar 27, 2021 at 12:50 PM

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Arn Anderson On Booker T Being The Last WCW Champion

WCW Championship had been one of the most prestigious titles in Sports entertainment which was held by Booker T five times in total. One might argue that Booker T is not the last WCW World Heavyweight Champion and it was Chris Jericho who unified it with the WWE Championship. But it is not technically right. Booker T was the last WCW World Heavyweight champion before WWE took over WCW, and Chris Jericho held the title after the takeover of WWE. So he will not be counted as an official WCW World Heavyweight champion here.

Vince McMahon wanted to run WCW as a parallel show to WWE so that he could sell the brand warfare. But it did not go very well. They kept running WCW as a parallel brand throughout 2001 but lack of original WCW wrestlers and weak bookings things did not go very well. So Vince McMahon had to scrap the plan of running WCW and we have not seen it on air since.

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Booker T. Image Credits: Twitter

Arn Anderson On Booker T Being The Last WCW Champion

But as a replacement of WCW as a parallel brand, we got Raw and Smackdown as two different brands working with different wrestlers.

But how were the ending days of WCW? We all know Vince Russo was one of the biggest reasons behind WCW’s failure. As people often address Russo as ‘Vince McMahon’s secret weapon.’ But Booker T’s success and all four original WCW world title reigns came under the Vince Russo era. So how was Booker T’s final reign? Arn Anderson recently expressed his views on it by stating;

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Booker T. Image Credits: Twitter

I think the world of Book. I love him and Stevie and Sherri when they were together. You could always tell Booker was gonna be separated out as a singles. He would go out and make you believe he was never gonna stay down. He made you believe in him as a character. He made you believe he could fight. But when it was time to entertain, he would hit that spinnerooni and all the different things that he had. He was the all-around cowboy, and I was so happy he was getting his claim to fame. Once he got to the WWE, they must’ve seen it in him too.

[You can listen it here]

[Credit: ARN. H/T 411Mania]

Booker T
Booker T. Image Credits: Twitter

Booker T’s main event push was one of the fewest good decisions that Vince Russo made. There were some other good booking ideas of Russo that were on the queue too but we never got to see them because of WWE’s takeover of WCW

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