Professional wrestling Legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer Booker T who is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion and a former five times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently give his opinion on which wrestler he would like to see in the WWE Hall of Fame 2022.
Booker T revealed that he would like to see the former three times WCW World Heavyweight Champion Big Van Vader who was known as Vader in the WWE in the Hall Of Fame 2022. Leon White who was famously known as Vader joined WWE back in 1996.
Booker T Reveals He Wants To See Vader In 2022 WWE Hall Of Fame
The late great professional wrestler had been treated as a huge deal while he was a WCW star. He had a five year career in WCW and he has constantly been treated as a main event star during is WCW run. He won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship three times during his WCW career.
In 1996 he joined WWE, and he was instantly treated as a main event star. He made his debut during the Royal Rumble match of 1996, where he was portrayed as a very strong force. It was quite clear that he was destined to be a top star in WWE.
WWE kept on promoting him as one of the top stars of their promotion, but from early 1997 WWE gave up on the push of White for some unknown reason. It is rumoured that Shawn Michaels was the wrestler who was behind killing his push. Most of the feud he worked in WWE has started out to be him jobbing.
In 1998 he departed from WWE and started working in different promotions. He went to Japan as well as he worked in America as well. But he could never get his lost status back. He could never be the top star he was in WCW. In 2017 he retired from Professional wrestling and just after one year he passed away at the age of 63.
Booker T who is a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion add a former five times WCW World Heavyweight champion recently spoke on his The Hall Of Fame podcast where he give his opinion on which wrestler he would like to see in the WWE Hall of Fame 2022. He said;
“I think Vader is a damn good candidate for a guy who should be in the Hall Of Fame. His resume speaks for itself, you know, coming from Japan with the Mastodon, big headgear with the smoke coming out. I’ll tell you, when Vader did that, it was just groundbreaking for me.”
“Even though I know in Japan those guys would do a lot of dramatics and have a lot of flair with their shows. But that right there for me was like groundbreaking.”
“Then for Vader, it wasn’t just the headgear. The guy actually could go out there and perform at a very believable level. That’s what I mean, believable, you believed Big Van Vader was racking you upside your head, because he was, most of the time. He’s definitely one.”
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