An update from Booker T.
The last time that two-time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T wrestled in a sanctioned match was as part of the 2023 men’s Royal Rumble. Present day, Booker is a commentator for NXT in addition to running the Reality of Wrestling promotion.
Booker was welcomed onto Busted Open by Bully Ray and Mark Henry and he shared that he’s been holding off on right knee surgery. In his debut for the Global Wrestling Federation which was in 1992, he suffered a torn PCL but never got it fixed.
He added that he has to get something done to his knee and explained why he hates surgery. Booker agreed with the point that it’s the wrestler’s mindset that he’s stuck in when it comes to dealing with pain.
You know what? I gotta have something done to my right knee. I tore my PCL, my debut in the Global Wrestling Federation and I never got it fixed and it’s come back to haunt me and my golf game has been struggling this last year.
The thing with my knee, I’m still putting it off. I put the clubs down. I’m still putting this thing off as long as I possibly can. I hate having surgeries. I know I’ma be laid up. My body’s gonna suffer, I’m gonna get old quick. So I’m like, man, screw it. I’ma just ride it as long as I possibly can. I’m serious (he laughed).
You’re exactly right (that wrestlers never get out of that frame of mind). Tape it up, I’m good. I swear man, sometimes it hurts so bad and then sometimes, it don’t hurt at all. It’s one of those type of injuries. So I’m like, I’ma just ride it until the wheels fall off.
Booker will be on the call for the 7/23 edition of NXT on USA Network. The show is going to be reviewed here on POST Wrestling by the Poisonrana Podcast.
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