Kurt Angle Opens Up About Batista Backstage Fight

Kurt Angle has opened up about the backstage fight between Batista and fellow former World Heavyweight Champion Booker T.

On the latest episode of The Kurt Angle Show Podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer opened up about the backstage altercation taking place in 2006 after Batista loudly spoke about the superiority of the Raw brand, which upset SmackDown’s Booker T.

Angle said:

“I was there after the fight ended. I heard what occurred, Batista got there for a commercial shoot, I think it was for SummerSlam, and someone approached him and Batista said, ‘Hey, when are you coming over to SmackDown because I have nobody to work with’. Booker took that as wait a minute, I’m on SmackDown? There’s a lot of people to work with. I think Batista was just saying, because there were a lot of injuries going on and it was getting a little bare at the top and he was just trying to tell the person I’d love you to come over and work a program with you.

“I don’t think it was anything personal against Booker T or anyone else on SmackDown. Batista said it and Booker confronted him and now the situation got hotter. Now Booker confronts Batista, makes Batista look like an idiot, Batista confronts Booker and now they end in a fight competition. The fight occurred, I got there afterward, I saw Booker T had a black eye and Batista was a little banged up and I just thought it was a big misunderstanding. I know they apologized afterward and made up and did whatever they had to do to move on, they just misunderstood each other about the whole situation. It was a shame, it didn’t have to happen.”

As Kurt Angle notes, Batista and Booker T both made up after the incident, but the former Raw General Manager said that “it was a shame” that a fight even broke out.

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