Booker T has broken his silence regarding the WWE departure of NXT veteran Duke Hudson, who actually got his start in Booker’s Houston, Texas-based Reality Of Wrestling independent promotion.
The WWE Hall of Fame legend and WWE NXT color-commentator spoke about the subject on the latest episode of his Hall of Fame podcast.
“Duke Hudson started with me at Reality Of Wrestling,” Booker said. “I got a chance to see him make his rise and then make his journey to WWE, to NXT, and the thing is that Duke Hudson’s been in that system now for six years.”
He continued, “The thing is, six years in the NXT system, that’s going to be way too long for anyone. I say it all the time, if you don’t change with the times, the times will pass you by. If you don’t know how to actually reinvent yourself and do something and make them look at you differently than they’ve looked at you before, that’s not going to be on them, that’s going to be on you. It could be the smallest little things as perhaps getting your hair cut a certain way, it could be something as big as getting in the gym and really putting in a whole lot of time. I’m talking about when everyone’s sleeping, you’re working. Then, when you show up and you just take your shirt off, all of the sudden, somebody’s eyebrow goes up just a little bit. If you ain’t preparing, you are preparing to fail and that’s the bottom line to that.”
Check out the complete episode of the “Hall of Fame with Booker T & Brad Gilmore” podcast via the YouTube player embedded below. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
