During the latest edition of his Hall Of Fame podcast, Booker T talked about the AEW Dynamite match between MJF and CM Punk, revealing that MJF impressed him.
Booker T said that he finally sees MJF as way more than just a talker: “I saw some of it, it wasn’t bad or anything like that. MJF, I don’t know if it was working with CM Punk, definitely brought his game up a whole lot from a guy that I just thought was a talker. He actually showed me his in-ring prowess where he actually had everything working for him. I was like, ‘wow, this is pretty good.’”
The legend thinks that while CM Punk’s help was probably a key factor, MJF was very good at following along: “CM Punk may have been the puppet master as far as being able to pull that off. As far as taking him out there to be able to have a match like that. But it always takes two to tango. Someone else is going to always make you look better than you could ever have made yourself look. I don’t know if that’s what the case was, but it was a good match.”
As far as the feud goes, Booker doesn’t think it needs a lot more: “I think there’s always room to circle back and do something with it, I really don’t know where you go with this. Just because I think it has been building up to the payoff. But I don’t think it has been built up to go anywhere further than that. I could be wrong. But I just don’t feel that this is a feud, for me, that I need to see a whole lot more of.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
