11 Things We Learned From Legends With JBL With Booker T (Part 1)

11. Friendship With JBL And The Dallas Sportatorium

JBL welcomes us to the show and says that he and Booker first shared a locker room well over twenty years ago. They both wanted a chance and a shot to make it and neither one of them had a back-up plan. Since that time the two have become life-long friends. JBL lists Booker's accomplishments before joking that it's twenty five years later and he's still putting Booker over, which draws a laugh.

The two talk about the old Dallas Sportatorium (which JBL calls a 'one of the worst buildings in the world'), former home to promotions such as World Class Championship and Global Wrestling. Booker references Black Bart and Manny Fernandez as two guys who helped him a lot early in his career.

He and his brother, Stevie Ray, went to the building one day hoping to secure Stevie Ray a tryout match and, months later, the fans there were rooting for their Ebony Experience tag team. Booker says that his time there helped him understand the power that professional wrestling had.