Steve Austin & DDP Talk Working With Booker T In WCW

During a recent edition of The Steve Austin Show (transcript via wrestlinginc.com), Steve Austin & DDP spoke about working with Booker T on WCW and their relationship with him…

Page on His Relationship With Booker T: “I really got tight with Book when he was doing GI Bro.” Page recalled, “and I walked in the bathroom and he’d already been in Harlem Heat. He had already been this and he had been that. And he was doing his single’s thing and they didn’t know what to do with him at that point. I mean, he’s a thoroughbred athlete, and he could talk, and he had tons of charisma, so whatever, I figure he’ll find his own way. So I walk in there, and this is how Booker T is, he’s putting on the face paint makeup for GI Bro and I just looked at him, and I go, ‘Book, how’re you doing?’ He goes, ‘I’m good, D.’ He goes, ‘I’m real good.’ I said, ‘dude, you have the best attitude I’ve ever met in this business.’ He goes, ‘D, do you know what I was doing before I got here? I was mopping floors. I was digging ditches.’ He goes, ‘I’m just happy to be here.’ He said, ‘I’m just going to keep working till I get over.'”

Page on learning Booker Spent Time in Prison: “Booker T got up there and he knocked me on my ass because I didn’t know that Booker had been arrested and been in the joint for a few years. I had no idea that when he got out of prison, he got his son who was in foster care from his mama, who lost him or whatever. I can’t remember the exact reason, but he went and got that kid, who was his boy, and as a single dad, raised him.” Page added, “and he said, ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ cost nothing. ‘Those two words,’ he goes, ‘are priceless.’ He goes, ‘you get out of this deal, you get out of this joint, you go to the next one, you get out into the real world, and you do the right thing.'”

Austin on His Relationship With Booker T: “Man, Book, we got along as soon as I met him in WCW.” Austin continued, “them, him and Stevie [Ray] were a tag team at the time, but we [were] always joking around, s–t we do to pass the time like that. [Page] know[s] Booker is a real confident guy, hell of a worker, hell of a worker! And a great promo. He started this rumor, some of the magazines, I forget exactly how he did it, but he goes, ‘so-and-so says I’m one of the top five workers in the world.’ Not just the United States, the world! And, dude, when you’re in the [pro wrestling] business, when a guy throws out a statement like that, you think, ‘hold it! Where did that s–t come from? How can he be the number five worker in the world or in the top five workers in the world?’ It was a rib! And everybody bit. Nobody knew whether to s–t or wind their watch!”

Austin on Working With Booker T: “Me and Book used to love to work together.” Austin divulged, “one time, we [were] in the ring, and, Goddamn, he lit me up with the stiffest damn right jab. Dude, I mean, he hit me so damn hard, it was like, dude, instantly, I’m usually real patient, but on that one, I said, ‘dude, that receipt’s coming right now!’ Man, I threw a right hand and it caught him. We finished the match, but it was an instant receipt. And I was laughing in the back. He was laughing as well. I said, ‘Goddang, Book, if you and me ever get in a fight, I know I’d kick your ass because I took your best shot and the only reason I didn’t knock you out is because my right arm doesn’t straighten out.’ He started laughing. Good dude.”