The nWo are one of the most popular factions in all of professional wrestling. They singlehandedly gave WCW the edge over WWE during the Monday Night Wars for a long time. The group eventually saw many wrestlers joining the ranks, but Booker T was not among them.
Recently on an episode of his Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T was asked why he did not join the nWo stable. He first talked about how important the stable is and how it made WCW popular.
What these guys brought to the table as far as the money side as well… I knew they were getting their piece of the pie but they made their pie go up for a lot of guys like myself who was working at the top of the card. They actually made my cheque go up a whole lot. So that right there, I understood from a business aspect, so that was cool.
He then revealed why he never found joining the stable as appealing, which led him to reject offers to join them.
But to actually be a part of the group, the nWo, it was just something that I did not want to be a part of. I didn’t want to be in the mix with a bunch of different guys, coming out to that one music. Sure, being a part of a group like that you gotta change your… just the way you work, the way you act and what not and that’s just not something I wanted to do. As well as, those guys, they ran it real hard and that might have been something that could have pulled me in as well and that’s not something I was about either.
I was always a loner. I was about making money. I was about coming to work and getting my work done to the best of my ability every time I came to work. So it might have been a hge distraction with all those guys. Then the nWo, it morphed and became so big it blew up into two separate factions and for me to be a part of that I could see myself getting lost in the shuffle real quick.
h/t to SK Wrestling for the transcription.
