Booker T Shoots Back on Dutch Mantell over recent comments about Booker T
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Man, I’d love to hang out with Booker T for a day. It would just pure laughs.
We never stop laughing
Would love to!
As one of the biggest TNA fans, Book was right. Disfunction was always a thing backstage.
Loved the crew there and wrestlers but was hard to work with that much disorganization
@@RealityOfWrestlingI can't blame you
Booker said he asked for release because when Eddie passed, it affected him as well. I hope all is well Fam ✊
Bingo! Anyone claiming Booker was let go while he was the WHC and his last PPV was against HHH in the main event of Summer Slam doesn’t have their facts straight 😂
@@RealityOfWrestling Besides, King Booker was Over like Rover. 😏 When he did the Stretching and Ended it by Raising up his Pinky. That was Pimp. 😎✊
@nelsonh86a17 But wasn't he gone before the Chris Benoit incident ? Thanks for replying, I hope all is well. ☝️
Booker was one of the greatest wrestlers and still is one of the great and humble guy out there. #truelegend
Thanks Jose
Ironically I watch the Dutch clip yesterday on UA-cam because the title of the clip caught my attention. I’m an avid listener of the Hall of Fame and I’ve heard numerous times Booker discuss his time in TNA. So I had a feeling/hope that he would respond to what Dutch said. And Booker didn’t disappoint.
Thanks Mike!
Booker is easily one of the coolest guys in the business, Dutch is tripping
Thanks 🙏
U don't know Booker T on real life,how do u know he's not difficult to work with?!?! Definitely see him acting better than during those WCW days!!!All top guy wrestlers are gonna act like this!!!
@@Cam-zv1jq Someone forgot to tell the Rock this because he's been acting like a nice guy since day one.
@@Cam-zv1jqhow do you know he was?
@@Cam-zv1jqI like Booker T too but I ain’t never meet the nigga in real life to speak on his personal character 🤣😂😭😭😭….that other guy that’s vouching for him that never met him before is mentally fucking retarded 😭💀💀…. Nigga that literally makes no sense 🤦🏾 2023 ….Jesus Christ
Booker you don't need to brag you are on of the biggest stars no matter the company and what you're doing with ROW its amazing.
Thanks brother
Love you Booker. Love Dutch too.
All respect here
@@RealityOfWrestlingI don't understand? I just watched a recent shoot with Dutch talking about the heat between Booker and Ryback and Dutch gave Booker a ton of respect. Spoke very high about him. And I'm pretty sure I heard Booker was praising Dutch for putting him over? Now to be fair I didn't watch this whole clip but from the comments it sounded like they were against each other?
@@ppiorkowski1502booker doesn’t seem pissed just clearing up some stuff..
Booker has always been a straight forward guy, I agree with him 100%!!!! Absolute legend and he's right, if u dont know for sure, dont talk!!! God Bless guys!!!
Every time I watch Dutch Man tell talk, he seems to ramble on, and acts like he's searching for things to say. He had told many stories that are well documented, but his always sound different. Booker seems to be a cool guy and pretty humble. He is well respected by his peers in the industry, yet I haven't exactly heard the same about Dutch.
Vince Russo also said Booker T was difficult to work with when he was asked the question about Dutch Mantell's comments on "Legion of Raw" last night.
90% of the young talent didn’t question anything or the older guys didn’t care and just collecting a check. Booker would ask questions!
There is a big difference from being hard to work with and asking for direction and wanting clarification about why we are doing things when no one can give you an answer.
Like “What does the Legends mean and will it be defended or just something to carry around” and no one could answer. Or wanting him to lose a match while Legends champion for no reason…. wouldn’t that mean the person that beat him gets the belt 😂 Could never get an answer in TNA
@@RealityOfWrestling I'm sure there was a lack of structure, but I'm wondering if both sides could be right? If all of these guys are saying the exact same thing about Booker T (who is my favorite male wrestler of all-time by the way) there just might be some truth to it. These guys can't be making it up, they have nothing to gain. One of the things Russo mentioned is that Booker T did not want to put over the younger talent, and did not want to put over Matt Morgan at all no matter the circumstance.
@@terranceburrs5832 we covered that topic about a year ago. Check out that video. Matt Morgan and Booker are still friends.
ua-cam.com/video/vI9pdGPJYHg/v-deo.html
@@terranceburrs5832 it’s funny they never tell the whole story why Booker refused to put Matt over and that you’ve never heard Matt say anything about it. Matt actually came to Bookers train school after all this happen
@@RealityOfWrestling I remember Booker covering that topic, actually a couple times. But then Vince Russo comes out last night and says Booker did not want to put him over no matter what and refuted the notion that Booker would have put him over under certain circumstances. I know Booker doesn't like talking about behind-the-scenes stuff but I think he should put everything out in the open, because this topic of him being difficult to work with has come up several times, and it doesn't look good when Dutch and Vince Russo are saying the exact same thing.
The self commentary fight in TNA always makes me laugh.
Yessss
WTF?!?!?!?! I was just watching a couple of videos and both Dutch and Booker-T were throwing each other mad props and showing a tremendous amount of respect for each other.
🎤. Dutch not only didn’t know the King Booker👑 Gimmick , but claims he did know why and when he left the WWE? It doesn’t work for me Dutch
Facts!!!
Old man is tripping get his ass book 😂😂😂
Shots fired 😂
They corrected the release issue at the end of clip
🙏🙏🙏
Booker T saying "zeal" is now one of my favourite things ever! 🤣
I watch most of the clips they post on Dutch's channel and, whenever he talks about his time in TNA, he usually says he doesn't remember and he was probably in catering. Dutch has a great mind for the business but, I'm going to talk in code here, it doesn't surprise me that he and Booker never "broke bread", so to speak. I believe what Booker said much quicker than I would believe Dutch.
Yeah it was surprising to hear Dutch say those things because all we hear from Dutch is “I didn’t really pay attention in TNA” but somehow Booker was hard to deal with.
Maybe it’s because the “office” wasn’t paying attention or just hanging out in catering 😂
I've noticed a trend when he speaks on certain types of wrestlers, I dunno he's an older man from the south ill just leave it at that.
@@romewilliams3526 We've noticed the same trend. He just buried Brickhouse Brown a few days back. That sure didn't surprise me.
Booker is a 🐐 period..one of the best to ever do it..
I enjoyed the hell out of seeing the former WWE superstars showing up in TNA it's was awesome and yeah TNA was a little dysfunctional with everything still don't know how Jeff Hardy was allowed to go out to the ring high as hell but don't forget most of our talent in WWE came from TNA/ impact
Yo Booker that sky blue Champion shirt you rocking is mad fly
Thanks Freddy
Sometimes these podcasts just have to have something to talk about, and to me that explains a lot of this. That being said I really like Booker and Dutch both and hope this doesn't go as far as the Dutch/Flair spat.
Na, we won’t be talking anymore about it or him. All the respect to Dutch and what he’s done in wrestling. Just always have to clear up when someone says something blatantly not true though. He’s just saying what he’s heard 2nd hand.
@RealityOfWrestling good to hear! I have respect for all you guys on these two podcasts.
Hi Booker,
1st and foremost, I love your content.
Maven has got me back into wrestling of late with his channel and information, not the Undertaker is doing his thing, which I love, and you are doing yours.
My memory if you was with Harlem heat. I’m born in 1984 so the 90’s I was all in it.
I remember looking back after my teenage years and was an adult.
And King Booker had been born! I love it.
You worked with what you had and you dominated it. Well done for going over
🙏🙏🙏
Booker T is one thing Money everything he did was epic His NXT commentary is amazing barking when bron came out against Seth had me rolling 🤣
Thanks Robert 😂
He definitely wasn't money when he became one of the lowest drawing Champions in WWE, lol.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw where in the world did you pull that out? King Booker had the highest rated segment each week and was only behind Cena, HHH & Rey the year as champion on merch 😂
I swear fans just pull “facts” out of mid air 😂
@@RealityOfWrestling Nonsense. In 2006 "King" Booker headlined the 2 lowest drawing WWE PPV's thar year and furthermore, No Mercy (it only did a pathetic 197,000 buys worldwide, which would remain the lowest buyrate until Cyber Sunday 2007, which did just 194,000 worldwide) was the lowests drawing WWE PPV since Taboo Tuesday 2004.
Already the PPV he entered as contender, Great American Bash, did bad. In fact it remains the second worst drawing Great American Bash for the WWE.
On top of that, he only averaged a crowd of 2,630 as Champion headlining domestic House Shows, which currently puts him as the 4th lowest Champion to do so (After Eddie, who's the worst drawing WWE Champion of all time, Kofi and Reigns) and the Smackdown Rating also declined during his reign, even hitting a 1.9.
This isn't surprising, as he also was a rating killer in WCW. Whenever he had the World Championship in 2000, the Nitro rating would take a dip. Every time he lost the belt back to Nash or Steiner, the rating instantly climbed up.
And lastly, in 2000, WCW had a research firm analyze all quarter ratings for Nitro and Thunder, including channel switches for the year 1999. Booker ended up as somebody who actively drove people away, for the entire year a total of 704,064 people changed the channel when he appeared.
All of this shows that he was a miserable failure, completely overpushed to a fault. A big mistake overall.
I know the truth hurts, but try to deal with it 🙃
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw impressive! That’s a lot of work and yes the company was down. But that’s like saying Bret was a failure. We look at who’s doing the biggest ratings when they are on TV and merch sales. The company as a whole was definitely big time starting around 2005. Love the work you put in :)
"Dutch we're coming for you ninja"
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Jesse from the Dukes of Hazard chill
Can’t wait until Fatu to debut
Gonna be GOODT
@@RealityOfWrestling yup best believe I won’t miss it question is it going to be live here on the main UA-cam channel
Booker giving these podcast content when he said the mj of wrestling 😂
During the WCW days people use to say that all the time in the back because of his style and the air he would get. Even a cool graphic made of the Air Jordan symbol next to Booker doing his side kick in the same style :)
Dutch is jack swag dad
Ryback got lot of potential he should fight in mma
15:39. Michael Jordan?! I like ya Book. No offense, but come on. Really.
That was a comment made back a lot around WCW with Bookers jumps and the logo. About his style and athleticism :)
They must have been talking about Jordan's baseball run. Kidding!
@@Tenaciousddp111 ok, legit made me laugh. That was a good one 😂
I subscribed to Dutch's channel after his back and forth with Ric Flair. A couple of days later I unsubscribed due to his comments about Stacy Keibler's HOF induction. After years on UA-cam its the quickest subscribe/unsubscribe of a channel I've done. Just lame criticism from Dutch and cohost all round.
He really is hit or miss with most subjects
This topic was definitely a miss for him saying Booker was let get from WWE. Bookers last match before leaving was against HHH in the main event at Summer Slam as the Champion 😂
@@RealityOfWrestling love booker and remember that match but neither man was champion and it wasn’t in the main event either. I thought him jobbing to hhh again at summerslam in the midcard was shameful. They could’ve put anyone in that spot for a returning HHH to destroy but they had to choose booker.
@@UFCWWE69 Your right that was the King Of Kings match. You always do the job on the way out of the company when y’all have agreed to part ways. It was time for a break and fit at the time HHH doing the king of kings for him to beat a king since truly believe was working away from WWE forever at that point. Thanks for the support
Bobby lashley is the right opponent for Ryback
Everything is a work
True. Wrestling
Im sorry Dutch... but Whatever Booker T says, I believe! He is the most respected in this business!
The funniest moment I’ve ever seen was Booker T reciting the NWO Theme😆😂
Classic moment
Dutch should just stick to posting dumb takes on sportskeeda and leave respected people like Booker T alone
Facts
Dutch said that Book is great and how he respects him and his ability... went as far as sating that he's a big name and main eventer... I don't feel like he was trying to bash Book. I listened to the entire thing and didn't think any less of him after hearing Dutch speak about him...
Thanks for posting this
I didn't think he said anything wrong either.
So dutch was right 😂
If asking questions about the booking when it legit makes zero sense is being hard to work with then yes 😂
Most of the wrestler in TNA were young kids that were just happy to be there so did whatever they were told so without question. Which is why a lot of TNA angles were all over the place 😂
@@RealityOfWrestling I know Book has respect for Russo giving him his push in WCW but this is all on him, his booking made no sense and was just soap opera with wrestling segments
Can the host keep his hands out of the camera please! Think of the viewer's POV when you're producing these videos. Thanks!
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Maybe they didnt ask you cause Booker freakin , a legend
😂😂 fair point. They did make a legends belt
A Booker t did you ever ask Goldberg if he eats the corn the long way
I think Goldberg won't last 3 min with ryback
I had to stop listening to Dutch’s show a while ago. All he does is gossip and its not even the right gossip sometimes. And his cohost just steals every ? from Cornette’s show
Seems like it.
So he just left WWE and all that money to go to TNA for nothing?
Said in the video burnt out and dealing with personal issues and needed to leave WWE and the grind. TNA was at most 1 day a week of work. It was a time to relax and recharge his battery. Walked away from HUGE money in WWE for his mental health.
@@RealityOfWrestling No way he’s leaving WWE and that big check, to work for Peanuts at TNA to clear his mind and workout personal issues unless he was not being renewed at WWE and had no other choice. Any Wrestler worth his salt will always tell you, if you’re not in this business to make Money, then you’re a Fool! So as much as I like Booker, His explanation here is not very convincing.
Book at the time already was a made man worth couple millions .he didnt beed nore millions he vould get payed less by tba and work less which was good for him at the time when he worked for decades@@rascoe1717
God damn! Get on with it! Who is the host? He should learn to get to the point. Too much information in between the points he tries to make.
If you’re not a fan of the style of show there are plenty you might enjoy more. We are just having long form conversations on the fly.
I love Dutch’s pod cast . Listen all the time . Only clicked when I saw you was talking about what Dutch said. I did remember AJ talking about Booker T . Saying he was lazy or something.
Dutch Mantell co-host on Story Time with Dutch Mantell is James.
Thanks :) seems like a nice kid
@RealityOfWrestling Booker T and Brad Gilmore Thank You for replying back also I love watching and enjoying your UA-cam videos of the HALL OF FAME.
Leave Booker T Da F*ck Alone Dutch Mantell!
Name out of his month going forward
Oh gosh... booker can handle it. Relax.
Booker T Bein Difficult 2 Wurk Wit! I Just Don’t Muthafugga Believe It!
I’m so sick of Dutch Mantell and his takes. Guy never did anything notable.
No lie, Booker is such a nice guy that at times I wish he would speak up for himself & be no BS at his big bro. Well on this video, I saw him trying to keep that inner Stevie Ray on the inside & not come out. Booker kept it professional but u can still tell Texas almost came out of him when he felt disrespect from Dutch.
🙏🙏
If Dutch Mantel believes Booker T was difficult to work with in TNA, that's his subjective opinion which he is entitled to based on his experiences. Booker is entitled to disagree. If Booker dislikes people stating their opinion or speculating on what happened during certain points of his career he can be irked all he wants & there's nothing he can do about it other then put across his narrative of the events. I was a TNA fan during that time and fan of Booker T. But there has always been rumblings he was difficult to work with during that time. Meltzer and Keller probs reported on it weekly at time in their newsletters which i could look at now if cared enough and had time. Of course two sides to every story.
Bookers biggest issues mentioned later is hearing now about being hard to work with and not a single person ever brought it up at the time. Booker is very straight to the point with people so if Dutch felt that way about Booker would have been easy at the time to say something or at least ask.
My guy Book ….Get em!!!!!!!!! 🔥
Gotta keep shooting straight all the time
Team Booker.
We can dig that!
Kurt angle vs Booker t tops
Ambalance
Wwe let Chris masters down big time
Three sides to a story folks
@12:05 Book, why would the babyface beat you up?
Forgot the full set up but everyone at the time backstage expect for the writers were like “Shouldn’t it be the other way around with where they are going” but TNA just threw stuff together sometimes. If anyone remembers TNA booking back then it could be “Interesting” 😂
Booker don’t seem like he be starting shit he low key be chillin
Always try to be chill
11 minutes and I gave up... This wasn't a very good response to what Dutch said. There was a whole lot of misdirects which I take as a sign I'm being worked... So downvote for that and on with my day. Still love Booker as a talent (expect the king booker run which was the worst)
Thanks for the response. Not sure about the being worked comment or what you mean by that but hope you have a great day :)
Dutch Mantell has ALWAYS been full of shit. For years, he's been talking about things that he has no clue about. Either he wasn't there when certain things happened or he was there and was not privy to the inside information. He does a lot of "filling in the blanks."
Their working you guys.
Booker and Dutch? 😂
It's all about the 5
The people are behind Booker
We the people?! 😂
I love wrestling
I watch both shows but Booker T is in my top 5 of all time list so I think maybe Booker rubbed Dutch the wrong way in the TNA days
Guess so 😂
Shooters gonna Shoot B
Bang bang
I think Booker is more like the John Salley of Pro Wrestling. John won championships w/3 teams so its all good 😀
Was more about the athleticism and style than being “The greatest”
So Wwe got structure 😂
Tna is nice
I wonder if Dutch would have that same energy for Black Snow though…
#ThisMafiaRightHereBaby
No one comes after BLACK SNOOOOW!
It seems that Booker T drops ish on TNA/IMPACT Wrestling a lot whenever he speaks about the company which is why Dutch feels that way...
There is a big difference from being hard to work with and asking for direction and wanting clarification about why we are doing things when no one can give you an answer. Like “What does the Legends mean and will it be defended or just something to carry around” and no one could answer. Or wanting him to lose a match while Legends champion for no reason…. wouldn’t that mean the person that beat him gets the belt 😂 Could never get an answer in TNA
@@RealityOfWrestling 😐 I didn't say anything about Book being hard to work with or the Legends championship belt situation, I'm talking about how Booker speaks about the company very negatively whenever he speaks about it which is why Dutch feels that Booker T felt that he was bigger than TNA/Impact Wrestling, that's the part that I understand because I've never heard anything positive by him towards TNA/Impact Wrestling. 🤷🏽♂️
Dutch just like to talk about things he dont know about
Pretty much
Book keeps it 100 again
Always
I like Dutch mantell but he needs to take this L.
We all have our L moments
No doubt Booker speak on it my brother let them know" Booker T ain't nothing fuck with" lol.
Can ya dig it?!
I hate when these hosts try to stir up mess. Its so trashy and not entertaining.
Ric Flair and Booker t about to do a handicap match on Dutch Mantell wooooooo can you dig that sucker 😂lol
😂😂😂😂
Booker in my opinion was too good for TNA . That’s just my personal opinion 👍👍
You said it not us 😂😂
Aj styles in a shoot interview after leaving tna literally said booker was one of the laziest people he worked with in tna who came over. Used his name and everything, high spots interview, look it up. Love you book, but your work in tna was well below your normal standard
It’s funny AJ said that then like a year later started working with Booker and they became close friends and AJ understood why Booker lost his passion there. AJ even worked some ROW events and have interviews where AJ talks about Booker teaching him.
It’s interesting to see how people’s perception changes when they aren’t frustrated like AJ became with TNA :)
flying Dutchman is clueless
You said it not us 😂
Bump what ductch book. That dude
Now can you dig it Dutch? Suckaaaaa!!! King Booka Tttt
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Yosemite Sam was very salty
😂😂😂😂
Thou doth protest too much, Booker. It makes me wonder🤔.
Booker T is a 'tell it like it is' type of guy... That's why he's sooo loved & respected today.
Always!
OL Zeb Colter also is the Only Man in the World who agreed with BJ James about Bret Hart , so …… 🙄. Who cares what Zebby said
😂😂😂
BOOKER HAD TIME! Ya'll have to stop the bs and playing around on people's name. That stuff can go a long way. Always proud at how you handle these things, Book.
Thanks Young Empire!
dutch isnt a legend...he's a veteran.
We try to put some respect on his name tho
@@RealityOfWrestling not mad at you. I just think it should be reserved for the Booker T's of the world..
Every wrestling podcaster ever talks about other wrestlers, more often than not based on "rumour and innuendo". Every wrestling podcaster ever gets upset when they are talked about by other wrestlers based on "rumours and innuendo".
We try not to talk about people’s personal stuff like who quit, got fired, money they are making etc etc. that’s stuff for that wrestler to talk about.
@@RealityOfWrestling Everyone "tries", yeah.
BT is very right
Thanks
Yea Dutch is trippin. U can’t disrespect Black snow 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Pump ya breaks kid Black Snow is a legend 😂
Dutch was talking gossip talk 😂
Exactly
Imagine getting this far in your career and dedicating this much of your life to it and still having to defend your self against allegations from that far back. Why wasn’t it brought up, then; directly to BT?
It never is. People just like to talk.
Booker T Scoops!
Two scoops lol
Honestly…Book was bigger than the brand 🤷🏻♂️
You said it not us 😂
No he wasn't I love book but much bigger named were there
Booker T is bigger then TNA and that’s a fact my opinion book is a mega star now can you dig that sucka
Someone recently posted if you ask 10 people at a bar “Do you know who Booker T the wrestler is” most will say yes …. if you ask them do they know TNA Wrestling you might not get the same response 😂
Thank You,Book! And no disrespect to Dutch but speak about things you know instead of answering you don't know,honestly.I really don't watch his show,not knocking his hustle but still a conversation is one thing but remember what you see is another.Other than that,it's just plain gossip.
That’s all we were saying :)
THE ZEAL
😂😂