A few days ago it was revealed that WWE Hall of Famer Booker T had pulled out of Starrcast III in August, and immediately rumors began to fly about a war between AEW and WWE.
The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently decided to clear the air on his Hall of Fame podcast, and he explained that he agreed to do an autograph signing, but he didn’t know it was Starrcast.
“Conrad [Thompson], he texts me a date that he wants me to do an autograph signing on. That autograph signing was August 31st, that day was in Chicago – he told me all of that,” Booker continued. “What he didn’t tell me is that it was Starrcast, I didn’t know it was Starrcast. I didn’t find out it was Starrcast until you, Brad, texted me and said, ‘Are you doing Starrcast? And I was like, ‘No, I’m not doing Starrcast.’ [You replied], ‘Well, they’re advertising you.'”
“I immediately tweet out and say that I wasn’t going to be doing Starrcast because I did not know that the Conrad booking was Starrcast, because he did not say that it was Starrcast. He just said [the appearance was] ‘an autograph signing.’… But that date, like I said, it was never mentioned one time in text or verbally that it was Starrcast. And if he said, ‘Hey Book, would you like to do Starrcast III?’ I would have said, ‘Hey man, I appreciate it but no.’ But it wasn’t framed that way, so I just want the people to know that I did not pull out of Starrcast… I was never in Starrcast; I was booked for a date, for an autograph signing, not knowing that it was Starrcast.”
He went on to say that WWE had zero to do with him pulling out of the event, and that the company won’t be looking for a replacement because the booking had nothing to do with them.
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