WWE Name Claims He Rejected Dark Side Of The Ring Appearance

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The Buff Bagwell episode of Dark Side Of The Ring apparently could have featured comments from WWE Hall of Famer Booker T.

Bagwell is the subject of the second episode of the VICE documentary’s fifth season, with the trailer for “Buff and the Bagwells” below this news story.

The episode broadcast on March 12 and Booker T recently claimed he turned down an appearance during a recent Hall of Fame podcast, claiming:

“Dark Side of the Ring, they reached out to me to be part of some of these series and episodes, but I turned it down just because, anything that happened with Buff Bagwell and I, anything I have to say about Buff Bagwell, it’s private.

“It’s something that’s internal, it’s something that him and I know and I’m not going to expose it or put it out there or anything like that just because I don’t think the world really needs to know what happened with Bagwell and I, and that night, or anything like that. The way it’s written is the way it’s going to be told from here on out. I won’t have anything to say about it.”

Buff Bagwell had a single appearance in WWE, facing Booker T on the July 2, 2001, episode of WWE Raw.

Speaking about the “very odd” events of that night, Booker T claimed:

“Let me speak on one thing, just to clarify. That night Bagwell and I had to go out and work, it was the first time it was two WCW guys in the main event.

“I do remember agents talking to me and telling me exactly what they didn’t want me to do. They told me to look straight at the camera, go out, and work. Don’t shake nobody’s hands. That was my thing, going out happy, shaking hands, high-fiving.

“They told Bagwell the exact same thing. Go straight out and go to work. Don’t even think about the fans. That was something that I found very odd, kind of suspicious.

“We weren’t put in a position to succeed back then in WWE. None of the WCW guys were. We were put out there to fail. We were put out there to get our asses beat and for WWE to plant that flag and say, ‘We won this war. We got the best wrestlers in the world and we just proved it with these two guys in the ring.’

“That part of Marcus Bagwell’s story is 100% true. Was is the greatest match I had? No. Was it the worst match? I don’t think it was the worst match I ever had.

“I do know, whatever we did that night, those fans in Tacoma, Washington, didn’t give a damn about Booker T or Marcus Bagwell. It was a rough night.”

Having recently suggested that there was an altercation between himself and CM Punk at WWE NXT, Booker T has since addressed those comments.

Transcript from Fightful.

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