Big E lost his WWE Championship belt to Brock Lesner after he was pinned at the Day 1 pay-per-view.
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WWE legend Booker T has spoken highly of Big E after he lost his World Championship belt to Brock Lesnar at the Day 1 pay-per-view. Lesner pinned Big E to capture the belt and is now scheduled to defend it against Bobby Lashley at Royal Rumble 2022. However, the six-time World Champion believes that Big E had a good run with the championship belt and it made him a better performer. Booker T also mentioned that the World Champion tag also developed his character and persona as a wrestler which will help him further in his career.
“I thought Big E had a good run and I thought the championship made him better,” former wrestler Booker T said in the latest episode of ‘Reality of Wrestling’.
“It was almost one of those things where I always say that when you win the title, it makes you a better performer, normally, just because you know that you’re the World Heavyweight Champion. You walk a different way. You feel a different way. I don’t know what it is, but that effect definitely got a hold of Big E, and you can see him falling into that role as being the champion. He believed he should have been the champion,” he added.
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The former powerlifter, who dreamt of becoming a professional footballer, grew through the ranks at WWE after he was convinced of his prowess following a tryout at Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), a developmental territory of World Wrestling Entertainment. He later signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2009 and since then has achieved remarkable success in his career.
Booker T feels that the American still has around 10 years in him to build his stature around the business which can fulfil his dreams of becoming a great for the company.
“I thought he did a great job. We didn’t get a chance to see Big E have a whole lot of classic matches as champion or anything like that, but I think that’s where Big E has a chance to come back and capture it again and grow,” Booker T said.
“I think Big E is going to be in this business for at least 5 to perhaps 8-10 more years, maybe, in this business, not the WWE, but in the business. He has a chance to grow over this time and become the performer he wants to be,” he concluded.
