By Michael KopStick, Torch Team Contributor

WWE Byte This review
September 11, 2003
Hosts: Joshy Mathews and Dr. Tom Prichard with Droz and Tazz

Booker T talks about the injury he sustained in Australia, finding out later that it was a bulging disk pressing out against his sciatic nerve going down his right leg. But he is better now and is looking forward to returning. (I actually had the same problem, although it probably wasn't as intense as Booker had it. But it was still bad enough that I couldn't move due to the sheer pain of the spasms going down my leg when I would move. Bottom line: Reading Dr. Sarno's book "Mind Over Back Pain," referred to me over the radio by Howard Stern, changed mine and many others' lives, and I strongly maintain that someone has to get the word out to these wrestlers that he does provide an incredible solution to deal with the pain. Needless to say, two chapters into the book, I was able to jump up from lying on the floor in agony and I haven't had much of a problem since thanks to this guy. I beg anyone in WWE who is reading this to suggest to guys like Shawn Michaels, who has had back problem experience, Hulk Hogan, who even went as far as doing the acupuncture thing to release his back aggravation, and now Booker T, to explore what this doctor might have to offer.)

T-man doesn't feel badly about losing his Intercontinental Title at a house show rather than on a televised card, he just would have liked to see at least some still footage shown on Raw for fans to understand what happened. But he doesn't mind at all dropping the belt at a house show.

He says that there still is somewhat of a chance that Harlem Heat will be reuniting. He still talks to his brother Stevie Ray, who is enjoying relaxing at home, but never say never.

Booker owns a hip-hop oriented store in Houston called Jamzone where they sell clothes and throw-back jerseys and some accessories for the ladies. He hasn't made a lot of money with the venture but he isn't doing it for the cash as much as he wants to get around Houston. "You know, I may want to run for mayor someday..." he threatens.

Dr. Tom asks him if he stopped by to check out Ivan Putski's school recently, where he learned how to wrestle. Booker says that he was never really into how Ivan taught them how to wrestle, which was the Ivan brawling style, so the only reason he was able to succeed in wrestling was because he strayed from that style. Instead, he credits his abilities due to the training and mentoring of Scott Casey.

They begin to mention Goldberg and Dr. Tom wonders how well Goldberg is surviving his term in WWE. Booker agrees that the key word is surviving. He remembers that he had to work very hard to get where he is in WWE, where respect from one's peers is much different than it is in WCW. This is why it may be hard fro Goldberg to adjust to WWE. "And I don't think he's been getting that [respect] up to this point. Will he? That's yet to be seen," Booker acknowledges.

A caller asks how he ever came up with the Spinaroonie. He says that it was from back when he would be into break dancing and would go to the park in Houston in his early ages and have dancing "battles," something he found kept him out of trouble.

Dr. Tom asks him if he is interested in going into Hollywood. Booker says that he looks at how the Rock is faring, how he parts from wrestling to do movies and when he comes back the fans don't take him the same way (Tough life for a man who commands around $5 million per film) so if he wants to pursue acting he would want to be finished with the wrestling first.

E-mail me at Mublumm@aol.com. Peace.

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