Booker T: Eric Bischoff’s Goal Was To Pay Wrestlers Like NFL Players In WCW, I Give Him A Lot Of Credit For That

Booker T almost had a huge contract until World Championship Wrestling prepared to be sold.

Booker T’s major payday was halted when WCW was bought by the WWE. On the latest edition of his Hall Of Fame podcast, Booker T reminisced about his own way into negotiating a big-money contract in the company.

“I had an agent in WCW. In the beginning, he handled all of my contracts until I went singles. I handled my biggest contract, I negotiated my biggest contract. it was well above all the money that my agent had ever negotiated for me, sometimes twice as much, maybe three times. The way I did it was, I remember being asked how much was it going to take to keep me in WCW. I go, ‘How much am I worth?’ They came back with a number well above what I was thinking of. ‘You’re kidding me, right?’ I was like, Wow, they think of me that much. I can tell it, it was $750,000. My next contract, it was $1.3 million. If the company wouldn’t have folded, my next contract was $1.3 million. It was a great time back then, Eric Bischoff was making us all rich. He said he was going to do that. He said, ‘Book, I’m going to make you rich.’ His goal was to make all wrestlers to be paid like NFL players. I give him a lot of credit for that.”

Booker T has been a commentator alongside Vic Joseph on WWE NXT since October 22nd, 2022. He announced he was done wrestling after entering the Royal Rumble earlier this year where he lasted 42 seconds before Gunther eliminated him. He said his age has caught up with him and he was hanging up the boots for good.

h/t from Fightful.

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