Booker T didn’t think his grocery store brawl with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin would make history.
The pair clashed on an episode of Smackdown in 2001. The segment saw Austin getting revenge on Booker T, beating him all around the store in an all-time great wrestling moment.
The fight allegedly caused $15,000 worth of damage. However, it is fondly remembered as one of the best moment’s from both men’s careers.
Booker T recently spoke about the fight with Austin during an interview on Unlikely with Adrian Hernandez. He revealed that the pair didn’t plan for it to make history, and just wanted to do their jobs the best they could.
“Stone Cold and I at the grocery store. We had one shot to go out and do that. Stone Cold and I definitely weren’t thinking about making history or anything like that. We definitely weren’t thinking about 20 years later, people still be talking about that, it would be one of WWE’s greatest moments.”
“That wasn’t the thought process. We just wanted to go out there and do it to the best of our ability. I know what my job was. He knew what his job was. This was the pay off. And when you’re paying off, you have to pay off. You gotta just be all in. For me, it was some great TV, but you gotta be able to literally laugh at yourself. You got to be able to go all in. That was my loss, but it had to be better than all of my wins. I remember at the end of that take was ‘Imma get you man! Imma get you!’ after that ass-whooping. I’m still talking crap! That’s movies, that’s TV!”
Book To The Future
Booker T’s Hall Of Fame co-host, Brad Gilmore, is a huge Back To The Future fan. He wrote a book about the series and has a podcast about the best time-traveling trilogy of all time. Some of Booker’s biggest catchphrases came from movies, but is there a line from Back To The Future that either one could see Booker adopting as his own?
Gilmore: “My favorite line isn’t anything Booker would ever say. But my favorite line from Back to the Future is in [the first film], they’re at the dinner table in 1955. Marty’s future grandfather says, ‘He’s an idiot. It comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots too.’ Which is like my favorite line from the whole movie. But I don’t know, I’d have to think to think about it.
Booker: “That’s a [Jerry] Lawler line.” [laughs]
Gilmore: That’s a [Jerry] Lawler line. That doesn’t really fit Book’s modus operandi. I’d have to think on that one of a really good one that he could use. You could use ‘This is heavy.’ You could drop a ‘Great Scott’ on commentary.”
Booker: “Oh yeah, I could do a ‘Great Scott’. I’m using that.”
Now, why don’t you make like a tree and get out of here? (and check out our full interview below!)
