Booker T Says He Never Pitched An Idea For Himself In His Whole Career

Booker T says he never pitched a single idea for his character throughout his entire wrestling career.

Professional wrestling is a collaborative effort between the performers in the ring and those making the decisions behind the scenes. Some wrestlers can be very creative and enjoy being hands-on with the development of their characters. Others allow those in creative positions to come up with the ideas, which they will then try to execute to the best of their ability. Booker T is one of those performers.

During a recent interview with Esports Insider, Booker T explained that he never pitched an idea throughout his entire career.

“You know, I feel like a lot of guys these days do that. I never pitched an idea throughout my whole career.

“Literally from the beginning to the end. I’ve never once pitched an idea. Just because I didn’t wanna know what I was gonna do. I just wanted to be able to get the script, look at it and see exactly what I could make it, no matter how small or how big. That’s just more work! That’s the writer’s job to come up with that kind of stuff. When you’re a talent’, you don’t have to think or worry about them writing something for you and writing really good stuff, which they had. So for me, I was always ‘talent’. They always wrote good stuff for me.”

The new Netflix show, WWE Unreal, pulls back the curtain on the creative process. Learn more about that here.

Sometimes, WWE creative will have your rival stalking your wife and making very specific sexual remarks towards her. Such an angle happened with Booker T and Kurt Angle in 2005. Read Booker T’s take on that storyline here.