Booker T has been in the professional wrestling business for a long time and throughout the course of his career he’s faced many different opponents who have hit him with a wide variety of different moves.
There’s no denying that there are a number of wrestling moves that are extremely dangerous, but there are also some very basic moves that just don’t work well for some people. Booker T recently discussed a certain move he wouldn’t take anymore on his Hall of Fame podcast when he explained why he stayed away from backdrops as he got older.
“That was just me because I always had back problems, I always had lower back problems, my back could like spasm out just like that for no reason, and it would stay like that for like three days to where I was crooked. My legs was on one side and my upper body would be on the other side, so I would be walking around literally like sideways … So, after my late 20s, once I got to 30 I said ‘backdrops is something I think I need to throw out just because of safety purposes for the future.’”
Booker T also talked about German suplexes and why he felt comfortable taking the move with certain opponents such as former WCW Champion Scott Steiner.
“Everybody can’t do the German … They’ve got to be able to pop their hips, they’ve got to be able to get the guy over properly and rotate,” he explained. “A lot of guys just want to throw you over, and that’s just not the way it works as far as from a safety perspective. If I am in the ring with a guy like Scott Steiner, I feel comfortable, because I know Scotty is going to break down, he’s going to pop his hips, he’s going to rotate, and he’s going to get me over … You didn’t see Steiner doing a lot of those kind of suplexes … because, it’s not that safe and it only takes one time, just like we saw with Big E for it to end in perhaps tragedy, or career ending.”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
