WWE Hall of Famer Booker T spoke on the recent episode of his Hall of Fame podcast about why he turned down appearing on the recent episode of Dark Side Of Ring on Buff Bagwell.

Booker T turned down appearing on the show because anything between him and Bagwell is private:

“We’ve heard about the WWE run, as far as Buff Bagwell’s standpoint. It just didn’t work out. The match that him and I had in Tacoma, Washington, that has come up a lot of times. Dark Side of the Ring, they reached out to me to be a part of some of these series and episodes. But I turned it down, just because — me personally, anything that happened with Buff Bagwell and I? Anything that I gotta say about Buff Bagwell, it’s private. It’s something that’s internal, and 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 that night, or anything like that. So, 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…

Booker T also spoke on their match on Monday Night RAW from Tacoma, Washington:

“Let me speak on one thing, just to clarify. Just to back up Bagwell on a couple of things. That night, Bagwell and I, we had to go out and work. It was literally the first time two WCW guys were in the main event, of course. And 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 anybody’s hands. And that was my thing: going out happy, shaking hands, high-fiving. They told Bagwell the exact same thing. ‘Go straight out, just go to work, and don’t even think about the fans.’ And that was something that I found very, 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, ‘Man, we won this war. We got the best wrestlers in the world, and we just proved it with these two guys in the ring right here.’

“So that part of Marcus Bagwell’s story is 100% true. Was it the greatest match that I’ve ever had? No. Was it the worst match I ever had? I don’t even think it was the worst match I’ve ever had. But I do know, no matter what we did that night, those fans in Tacoma, Washington, didn’t give a damn about Booker T or Marcus Buff Bagwell. It was a rough night.”

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