What does Booker T think of Keith Lee's future now that he is in All Elite Wrestling?
The two-time WWE Hall Of Fame legend spent some time on his "Hall Of Fame" podcast talking about Keith Lee, including how he spoke during his WWE run, concerns he has with his promos now that he's in AEW and some advice he would offer him.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the episode where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On Keith Lee speaking very intelligently while in WWE: “Keith Lee was a guy that was very different. Especially a big guy playing that beastly role, but he seemed more like a guy that could sing opera, a guy that was very, very intelligent. He always spoke very well, he didn’t speak any broken English or anything like that like you would normally see from a brother from the hood. Kind of like myself. He was always on top of his game. He thought people may have looked at him a certain way because of that.”
On his concerns with Keith Lee’s promos: “Keith Lee was different, as far as cutting a promo, and then in the ring, he was this guy that you’re supposed to look at like he was a monster. It is hard to separate the two. Say, for instance, seeing Keith Lee mad and still talking like that. It’s not going to appeal to you. As opposed to a big guy like that being ticked off and really letting you know, ‘Bro, you’re about to get hurt. It’s almost like me talking as King Booker and then something would tick me off and I would be talking like Booker T. That’s what I mean. It just didn’t give me that raw feel that Keith Lee was going to go out there and rip somebody like a ragdoll from listening to him cut a promo. I understand, I get it. But I don’t know about the locker room, or if guys looked at him differently, or anything like that.”
On some advice he would give to Keith Lee: “I would think from an entertainer’s perspective, as a wrestler’s perspective, if I was directing him, I would say, ‘Hey man, I’m going to need you to get a little bit more dirt on you. Especially when you’re going to go out there and whoop somebody’s ass. I need you to talk like you’re actually going to do it.’ You know what I mean? Maybe change your cadence up a little, You may talk like this idea at times. But at times you might want to, like I did, change it up a little bit.”
Check out the complete episode at YouTube.com. H/T to WrestlingHeadlines.com for transcribing the above quotes.
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