Vince McMahon Stopped Booker T From Retiring In 2005

WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T tells the story of Vince McMahon offering to hire Booker T's wife, Sharmell, in 2005 in order to stop him from retiring from being a full time wrestler #wwe #wrestling #vincemcmahon

[thetruthisreal]

Bro could you imagine if Boooker quit before King Bookah!?

[Evs]

He’s one of the very few to make winning King of the Ring mean something. Totally developed a new persona around it

[CreateToInitiate]

For him to credit his wife for a major part of his run as well, is a WHOLE other level of loyalty.

[chuckhouse]

I got to meet Booker one time. My mom had passed away but she LOVED Sharmell. She described her as a truly classy lady. When I told him how much they meant to her he just grabbed my hand and said a prayer for my mother. Booker will ALWAYS be a favorite of mine. ALL HAIL KING BOOKER!!!

[BDCS]

Kurt Angle was also a big fan of her participation

[Atalas]

that's how you know your boss values you. going from the Rock saying "Who the hell are you?" to King Booker. A true legend.

[mattmalcore]

Booker T has given so much to the industry, I remember him from the Harlem Heat days watching WCW as a kid

[bnazty]

He seems so down to Earth and genuine. What a good guy.

[OCFLAboi]

Booker T is easily in my TOP 10 wrestlers of all time. Esp his ability in ring.

[xgormo]

Like Booker said, it didn’t overshadow his career, I personally think the run with Sharmell though, is what solidified him as a legend

[AKBOXING--]

Fun fact. Sharmell was picked as the winner of a beauty pageant in the early 90’s. The judge was iron Mike. And he picked her over the woman he slept with who was also a contestant. I think you know what happened after.

[wreckagevic]

Booker is a legend. He earned every bit of praise coming in from WCW and working hard and staying with it.

[mattattack]

That King Booker run was just brilliant

[BuhdeeProductions]

Booker and his queen truly elevated his character a lot more in that time and era especially him having this cocky attitude and 24/7 royalty in the Ruthless Aggression Era this push Batista and John Cena in 06-07

[curlyg]

Might be the greatest King of the Ring WWE ever had

[Immy_Islam]

Fun fact: The only wrestler to make Vince break character on live TV was Booker during the segment when he rang Vince to tell him he's going to play bingo lmao.
Jerry Lawyer said once that if you ever make Vince laugh especially on TV, you're always gonna be in his good books. That's why Booker was always featured so prominently during the early 2000s Ruthless Aggression era.
Easily the best thing to ever come out of that horrible invasion angle was WWE acquiring Booker.
He's really the only one to come over from WCW to really make it in WWE and become a bigger star than he was in WCW.

[shaymiller]

Vince is a legend for this one. WWE wouldn’t be the same without booker T.
Now can you dig that Sucka

[derrickdann]

A Historic decision!! All hail King Booker 👑

[oscargutierrez]

Vince really knows his business. king boookah went to a whole another level

[entertainment]

Sharmell becoming a part of Booker’s world was awesome, I loved that she was always hyping him up and then the King Bookah run happened and you could tell they were having a ton of fun with that. I’m so glad I got to watch that from near the beginning!