On Sunday night The Miz faced off against Damian Priest in a Lumberjack Match, and the lumberjacks turned out to be zombies which were used to promote Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead.” The zombie lumberjacks were interesting to say the least, and they’ve been heavily criticized by the wrestling community over the last few days.
During an episode of his Hall of Fame podcast Booker T compared the zombie involvement to a live commercial, and focused on the money involved with the promotion.
“It’s like doing a commercial or doing something for a movie and we do it live. I’m all down for getting a check and tying it into my product, my show. We don’t know how much more money will be dished out later. Batista made some money perhaps as well doing the voice over kicking the show off.”
Current AEW star Chris Jericho later took a shot at WWE on Twitter when he said that the Zombie Lumberjack Match set the wrestling business back 30 years, and Booker T offered his perspective on the jab.
“I understand the jab back. But Chris Jericho knows that thing was about getting a check. It was about a promotional tool to actually get this out there to get people to the drive-in or movie theatre to see this thing. I totally understand it, but a lot of people from the outside looking in when they see something like that they go this is corny, this is cheesy.”
“This is entertainment,” Booker said. “How many times have you heard me say that’s their stuff. If I want to run something, I’ve got to create my own. That’s why I created Reality of Wrestling, just so I can call the shots, create the storylines, the angles I want to do, the angles I always wanted to do, that’s the only way. “But when you’re dealing with somebody else’s stuff, that’s theirs, they’re going to do it their way. Just get it, understand it because I don’t think that’s ever going to change.”
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