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TNA News: Booker T says he told Vince McMahon to fire him; why he doesn't consider himself a wrestler Jan 12, 2009 - 3:15:12 PM
TNA legends champion Booker T doesn't consider himself a pro wrestler, but rather an entertainer who happens to perform inside a wrestling ring.
Without a background in athletics, he acknowledges he's not the greatest wrestler, but says he is successful because he knows how to work in the ring without needing to practice what he's going to do.
"I don't have that background of physicality," Booker told Ch. 14 in Charlotte, "but fighting and entertainment intertwines with each other and I think those are my greatest assets to go out and make a fool out of myself, but still be serious at the same time."
Booker said he tells his wrestling students that you have to understand your talent and if you feel under-utilized, the only thing a company can do is fire you. "That's the only thing they could do to you, but I believe in my talent," he said.
Booker recounted a story in WWE about going to Vince McMahon (without naming him by name) and telling him that one agent is telling him one thing and another agent is saying something else, and he really can't work like that.
"'If you don't like what I do; if I don't put people in the seats, if my ratings don't come up for my segments, then just fire me,'" Booker recalls telling McMahon. "That's how much I've always believed in my talent as a performer, not as a wrestler."
Now in TNA, Booker says he's not sure how much longer he'll be in the business, but it won't be as tough for him to walk away compared to other wrestlers who only know wrestling as the fabric of their lives.
"I always looked as wrestling as part of my life, but a small part of my life," Booker said. "I walked away from the biggest company we have in the world, which is WWE, at the top of my game because I felt like it was time for something else; for me to build a whole new chapter."
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