Booker T is ready to fight Ryback.
Just to prove there’s once more there’s never a dull moment in professional wrestling, Ryback challenged Booker T to a fight. The WWE Hall of Famer became a target for Ryback during a live stream where he also called out Mark Henry and Busted Open Radio.
While questioning why someone like Bellator would want to get involved in such a bizarre fight, Booker T admitted that he’s ready to go whenever the situation arises. Speaking on his Hall of Fame podcast, the veteran accepted the left-field challenge.
“Ryback put a challenge out to me for a fight. He said a Bellator fight. Look, Bellator don’t want no parts of a fight between Booker T (and Ryback). Reality of Wrestling might put something on like that, but no real big organization is going to do anything like that, but as far as the challenge goes, I accept Ryback’s challenge to a fight. Now, this is what I need Ryback to do. Just go out on his platform and say anytime he sees Booker T in public, it’s on, the green light between both of them and nobody’s gonna get sued. If we just happen to run into each other and something happened to happen, it just happened.”
Continuing on, Booker said that he’s not the type of person to seek confrontation, but if someone comes to him, as Ryback has done, it’s on. The former World Champion added that he’s not a hard man to find.
“I want to get it out there. You know what the thing is, I don’t even know why he called me out. I did say I wouldn’t shake his hand because of some words that he said. I think I was valid for that. Be that as it may, what his excuse was, the reasons, he said, I did say when he posted the thing that he was going to AEW, come on man, quit playing.
It’s one of those types, but that’s all it was. It was just sarcasm. It was nothing, no more than that. But to get called out to a fight and to be called the B word and the P word, that’s something you don’t call a brother. You don’t do that. You never hear me curse and talk down, derogatory towards people. That’s just not me, man. When someone says that about me, it is on when I say it’s on. It’s as simple as that. The thing is, I’m an easy man to find. I’m at all the cards. I’m at all the big shows, so, show up.”
Booker T – “Can You Imagine The Praise I’d Get?”
In a more jovial moment, Booker T joked that he’d even be praised by WWE for beating the hell out of the former Intercontinental Champion, joking they’d extend his contract by another 15 years.
“Can you imagine the praise I would get from WWE if I beat the hell out of Ryback? I’m not advocating for it, I’m just saying I would have a 15-year contract added on just for good measure. [Laughs]”