One of the biggest names in professional wrestling is WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. He and his wife, Sharmell, together run a promotion called Reality of Wrestling. A huge name from that promotion is former ROW World Heavyweight Champion Zilla Fatu.
Recently, while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, Fatu opened up about how he and Booker T connected. Fatu shared that both he and the WWE Hall of Famer have a lot of similarities. He also mentioned that he wished he’d connected with Booker T earlier, as that could have helped him a lot in his career.
“Oh, we definitely did. He shared his story. He told me, ‘Hey, man, you’re not alone. Even though we have a different story, we have a lot of similarities.’ I think Booker T was also one of the ones that, obviously, I looked up to, but we were never that close growing up. But when I came home from prison and I got with him, when we connected, it’s like I wish that I’d been connected with him when I was in the streets, because I think just having someone, the person that he is, and the stuff that he went through, I could connect to.
“So all I needed to hear was his story. I think that’s what helped me too with being in prison, I was listening to all the OG story, I was listening to everybody’s story, and I always used to take that one positive thing that I learned from each and every story, and I applied it to my story, and I applied it to my mind. I think that’s what helped me with all the decisions I make today,” Zilla Fatu said.
