Some people don’t like the GCW style apparently.
On this week’s Hall Of Fame podcast, Booker T discussed a recent Joey Janela spot in his match where he was going to give a flaming super kick. Janela lit his boot on fire and had issues extinguishing the flame after kicking his opponent. Booker T was asked to give his opinion on this spot.
“I’m always willing to say in somebody’s face what I’m willing to say on this show. Joey Janela, that was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my career,” Booker said.
“I’m serious because the thing is, he didn’t have a boot where it could actually fend off the flames for a minute. He had a kick pad on and a tennis shoe. He put so much damn lighter fluid on his foot, it probably soaked all the way through to his foot.”
“That right there just embodies what I talk to my young students about. If that’s the route you want to go, that’s on you, but plan on working that scene forever, because this is not stuff they do in the major leagues.”
“It’s the light bulbs, you know, just doing something just for the hell of it. I don’t know if that’s something in a video game. It has to be something you know, a fire punch or a fire kick. It has to be something from some video game for someone to even think about trying to do it. It just makes zero sense, and that’s what I try to teach my wrestlers to stay away from. Don’t go that route, because at the end of the day, you’re not going to make a whole lot of money doing it and you could screw something up permanently doing something like that.”
“I don’t know if you noticed the thumbtacks in the ring. I don’t know if you saw the spot they did where the barbed wire was on the table and then the swanton off the top of the ladder on to the table with the guy up under the barbed wire. Where are we trying to go? I know there’s a market out there for it, but there were probably 150 people, maybe 200, in that hall where they were doing this and it couldn’t have been that much money in that little hall.”
Booker T on The Hall of Fame Podcast
What did you make of Janela’s flaming superkick spot? Let us know in the comment section and on our social media pages. You can see the spot in question below.
h/t to WrestlingNews.co
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