Don’t Mess With Texas: Booker T Looks To Honor The Past, Highlight Women’s Wrestling With WrestleMania Week Events

Booker T is helping shine a spotlight on two major events taking place in the Dallas area this weekend.

WrestleMania week in Texas will see Booker T’s Reality Of Wrestling promotion be part of the four-night event called “Texas Showdown: Don’t Mess with Texas” at Southern Junction Texas in Irving, TX. The event, co-promoted by ROW and World Class Pro Wrestling, will feature two live wrestling events that hold special meaning to Booker.

The Sherri Martel Women’s Classic will be held on Saturday, April 2nd, while the Texas Legends event will be held on Sunday, April 3rd will honor the legendary wrestler Black Bart. Booker spoke about partnering with WCPW as well as what it meant to finally get a chance to honor Sherri Martel and Black Bart on a major stage.

“We’re gonna be teaming up with World Class Championship Wrestling down in Dallas and doing a cross-promotion to exhibit and display the talent and show what Texas wrestling is really all about. Ya know, put on a couple of events that I think people are really going to be interested in with the Sherri Martel Classic as well Sunday morning breakfast with the legends talking great stories, honoring Black Bart, a Texas legend that’s given so much to wrestling,” Booker said. “There’s so many Texas legends that don’t get the recognition that I think they should get. Those guys were the carpenters that laid down that foundation for guys like myself and my brother to actually get into the business. Sherri Martel was the legitimizer for Harlem Heat and we wouldn’t have made it as far as we did without her. So, to honor the past, I think that’s what this WrestleMania weekend is all about for Reality of Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling.”

Asked what he hopes fans can take away from these WrestleMania weekend events, Booker hopes that fans can discover the roots of pro wrestling but also can’t wait to show people how many talented women’s wrestlers are out there today.

“For me, hopefully, they’ll take away, from these two events, like maybe they to ‘man, maybe we do need to go back and check-out the past’ and they can see what the fathers or the blueprint of wrestling was really about, because that’s how I learned. I learned from my brother driving and me sitting in the passenger seat with Black Bart sitting in the back seat spitting knowledge. I learned from peaking around the curtain watching guys like Black Bart and Manny Fernandez go out there and create magic and the crowd actually sometimes wanted to start a riot,” Booker explained.

“On Saturday, seeing the ladies take center stage, that’s really going to be awesome because the winner is a trailblazer, they’ll be the first-ever Sherri Martel Classic winner and that may catapult them to the next level. There’s so many really, really talented ladies out there on the scene right now and for us, us being Reality of Wrestling and World Class Championship Wrestling, to present something like this, is going to be really, really awesome. Thursday and Friday morning, myself and RVD will be doing some stuff, we’ll be putting the band back together, like The Eagles ‘Hell Freezes Over’ Tour,” Booker noted. “One night only, it’s gonna be a fun, fun time more than anything to get in the ring and show my boys and girls that their Sensei can still go out there and create magic.”

Check out our full interview with Booker T at the top of this post, where he also speaks about Sherri Martel’s effect on his career, Sharmell’s WWE Hall Of Fame induction, memories of his WrestleMania feud with Edge over a Japanese shampoo commercial and much more.

“TEXAS SHOWDOWN: Don’t Mess with Texas” takes place at Southern Junction Texas from Thursday, March 31st through Sunday, April 3rd during WrestleMania week. More information about the Sherri Martel Women’s Classic and the Texas Legends event can be found on the Reality Of Wrestling website.

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