When All Elite Wrestling first debuted they company promoted a roster of fresh talent, but recently fans have been seeing some more familiar faces on AEW programming such as Sting, Paul Wight and Christian Cage.
Booker T recently addressed the topic of veterans joining AEW on a recent episode of his Hall of Fame podcast, and he compared the situation to his days in WCW.
“Right now it seems like they’re pulling a revamp of WCW. As far as signing veteran talent, guys well past their better years of their careers. Guys that young guys could take either one of two ways, either these guys are here to help us or these guys are here to take our spot. I was one of the young guys on the [WCW] roster back then, I was coming up. I must say, a few of those guys came in, [Curt] Hennig, Bret Hart, I got a chance to work with them and they gave me some good feedback and I felt a lot of energy from a few guys that came over. But, the majority of those guys that came over from the WWF, man they were just coming to get a check, they were coming to get paid.”
The Hall of Famer went on to say that when AEW first started he thought that he was going to see something different that the older generation hadn’t seen before, but once again referenced WCW while talking about the current state of the company.
“I don’t know what’s going on with AEW or anything like that but my thing is this: when AEW first started, I thought we were going to see something new. I didn’t think we were getting ready to see a revamp of WCW and I’m not knocking them, but I thought we were ready to see The Young Bucks, Kenny Omega and the group of these young guys that felt like they knew a whole lot more about the business than the older guys. They were going to create something that these old guys had never seen before in their life and now we’re seeing everything the old guys have seen for the last 30 years.”
H/T Wrestling Inc.
