

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The Hall of Fame Podcast with Booker T with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. J0 WWE Hall of Famer Booker T made his in-ring return at his wrestling promotion, Reality of Wrestling, this past Saturday. Orphaned at a young age, he struggled to find his way during his teen years, and served time in prison after committing a string of robberies. To actually create something without even realizing and make you feel a part of it, that's the psychology of wrestling truly is and I think that's what's missing. "Being able to find that something to make the fans gravitate to it and know they're going to get this every time they see them. You gotta try and keep up with the competition.

"You see The Rock doing The People's Elbow and you say 'Okay, wait a minute, I need to figure out something like that,' " Booker T said. He said seeing The Rock get so much attention by a simple move made him want to do something similar and mentioned how those theatrics are missing in wrestling today. Marc Madden saying spin-a-roonie, spin-a-roonie made me realize that the spin-a-roonie was more than just a move."īooker also mentioned that he came up with the spin-a-roonie due to The Rock's famous People's Elbow. "I was like I know at any time, if I need something, if I need a play, I can always go to the spin-a-roonie. Of course they loved my wrestling, but the spin-a-roonie became something that had its own little wing. "Once I started doing it, I realized that's what people wanted to see more than anything was the spin-a-roonie. "I didn't know where it was supposed to go," Booker T said. He said it was a move that he could pull out at any time and get the fans into the match. Booker talked about where the move came from and why he continued to do it. One of the more famous moves that Booker T was known for was the spin-a-roonie. That's what holds a lot of guys back once they finally make it to the mainstream roster." That's what I think is the difference between some of those guys that continue to do that stuff well into their career not understanding man, I'm here now, I've got to work on the psychology side of the business. Being able to throw a good punch, being able to throw a good kick, being able to throw a nice forearm, the nicest chop I possibly could. I've understood it from that perspective but I was always learning on the job at the same time knowing I was trying to learn the psychology of what's going on. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to. Jones’s earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life.
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"A lot of times it was for the guy I was working for, do something crazy to get the guy over. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music.From Booker T. Booker T is one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time and the most decorated wrestler in WCW history. "I know I did stuff in the beginning of my career to get noticed," Booker T said.
