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A WWE Hall of Famer has revealed that he had beef with the journalist Ariel Helwani in a recent interview.
Helwani has had a bit of a back and forth with AEW owner Tony Khan recently, who accused the journalist of being a “fraud” after his appearance on WWE SmackDown that led to a further appearance, and some mockery aimed at Khan, at Elimination Chamber.
Booker T had discussed the story that should not have been a story on his Hall of Fame podcast before revealing that he, too, had an issue with Helwani, saying:
“I don’t know if you saw Jonathan Coachman. He chimed in on it as well. Jonathan Coachman, he threw Ariel Helwani under the bus.
“He was talking about how much time he put into the business, and Ariel, who didn’t know anything about the business, who couldn’t even get into a UFC event anymore and has the nerve to talk to wrestlers and disrespect wrestlers in a certain way such as Booker T.”
Coachman did issue a Tweet referring to Helwani “talking trash” to “actual wrestlers like Booker T”.
The two-time WWE Hall of Famer would go on to say:
“I’m like, wait a minute. Since when is Jonathan Coachman going to start defending me (he laughs).
“I can defend myself. I don’t need anybody defending me and throwing my name in there as far as me and Ariel Helwani having beef.
“Ariel knows he had beef with me. Ariel and I have buried the hatchet.
“To bring my name up is wrong more than anything. Ariel Helwani apologized to me.
“Coachman, whatever you’re trying to do out there, bro, if you got a beef with Helwani, make it between you guys.
“Don’t bring my name up in it. I just want to put that out there. I don’t need any help with anybody.”
Helwani recently spoke about the backstage reaction in WWE to his tweet exchange with Tony Khan.
Transcript from WrestlingNews.co.
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