"WWE News: More insider word on Booker T-Batista situation, plus WWE.com's angle
By Wade Keller, Torch editor
May 9, 2006, 22:59
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-There is a lot of buzz backstage at Smackdown in San Diego tonight among wrestlers and staff over Booker T standing up to Batista last night. Booker is being perceived as the good guy of what was a legit scuffle, not a planned angle (despite widespread reports elsewhere). As James Caldwell noted in his update earlier, there will be more in this situation in the Torch Newsletter this week and in his VIP Audio Newsbrief scheduled to be posted later tonight.
-WWE.com just posted a story with quotes from Booker T, which appear to be 100 percent legitimate in the sense that it's the same thing Booker is telling others in casual conversations."
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"The fight that broke out between Booker T and Batista at the Summerslam commercial shoot may actually not be something that was done for a future WWE storyline. Both men were said to be legitimately swelling later in the evening. Also, Booker T's wife, Sharmell, became involved at the end of the fight, but not physically involved.
In the past Booker T has made some offhand, condescending comments in regards to Batista's physique in at least two interviews in the past few years, so there does appear to be some legitimate heat between the two.
In an interview he did last year, Booker T alluded to Batista's alleged steroid use when he said it was going to come back to haunt him when he started tearing muscles. Also, in an interview Booker T did with the now defunct Total Wrestling Magazine in 2002 or 2003 when Batista was just starting out in WWE, he thought Batista's physique looked freaky and that he was much too muscular for his own good.
sources: PWInsider.com Pro Wrestling Torch"
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