WWE Hall Of Famer Didn’t Like Elimination Chamber Or Hell In A Cell

The Elimination Chamber match does not look like a fun match to participate in. By design, it is a big cage with hard chains and a hard floor and that’s after WWE removed the grate floor that surrounded the ring until 2017. One person who did not enjoy wrestling in that match was WWE Hall of Famer Booker T.

Booker T recently spoke about wrestling in the first Elimination Chamber match back in 2002 on the Hall of Fame podcast. He wasn’t a fan, going so far as to lump Hell in a Cell in the same group of matches he just did not like. Here is the quote, courtesy of Wrestling News:

“The first Elimination Chamber wasn’t something you really wanted to be a part of other than the history making moment, being a part of something.  That for me was really cool. But, coming into WWF at that time, WWE now, those guys worked differently. They thought differently. They went out there and they were all about ‘bringing it, blood and guts.’ Man, just put me in the ring and let me work, collar and elbow tie up, shoot off the ropes, that kind of stuff.

I just wasn’t into those structure type matches and I tell people all the time that I was totally out of my comfort zone when I was doing stuff like that. I really did not want to be there when doing that kind of stuff. I did not want to be tagged as one of the guys that when that time of the year comes around and these matches are to come up, this is the person that’s going to be in it. That’s why I was never in a Hell in the Cell match. I never lobbied for Hell in the Cell. I would never talk to anybody and say ‘Hey man, can you get me one of those?’”

Booker T was one of six men to enter the Elimination Chamber in 2002. The match was ultimately won by Shawn Michaels and Booker T never competed in a Chamber match again.

The Elimination Chamber pay per view is currently scheduled for February 21, 2021.

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