Booker T said that examples must be set so that such things don't happen in the future.
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This week’s Monday Night RAW was thrown into a tizzy when reports came out that Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out of the show and Booker T has now reacted. The women’s tag team champions left the arena abruptly which left WWE officials scrambling to fix the main event that was already planned. The main event was originally supposed to be a six-pack challenge but that was changed to a singles match between Becky Lynch and Asuka instead. WWE released a statement claiming that the women felt unsafe working against two of the talents and that they had felt disrespected.
WWE Hall of Famer Booker T was on his Hall Of Fame podcast and gave his two cents on the situation. He said, “Was it the right thing to do? You know, probably not, we will find out as far as the repercussions if it is a work or not,” he said. “But, I do think that it was handled, let’s just say, unprofessional by walking out like that. If, and I am just saying if, this is the scenario to where Sasha felt like it was disrespect for her to get beat being a tag team champion, as well as Naomi getting beat being disrespected as tag team champion, if that’s the problem we’ve got a huge problem here. That’s why I say it’s hard for me to speculate, it’s hard for me to really talk about what really happened because we are only hearing it from one side. If that was the scenario, if that was the case, damn man the business has definitely gone to the toilet.”
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Although we don’t exactly know why the two women decided to walk out, there have been reports coming out that Naomi and Banks did not agree with the creative team about certain things. It has been reported that they were both set for Women’s Title matches at WWE Hell In A Cell, but were going to lose to Bianca Belair and Ronda Rousey. That was a situation that Naomi and Banks apparently didn’t agree with from a creative point of view, which led to them walking out.
Booker T said that examples must be set so that such things don’t happen in the future. “I agree, if that’s the case something should be done, fines, suspended, fired. Something should be done,” Booker T stated. “I just don’t think it sets a good example for the guys in the locker room, I just don’t, I do not think this is the way that the business motto should lean towards. ‘Well if I don’t like it I’ll just leave,’ well if everybody thought that way we wouldn’t be having a product here.”
