7 Ups & 3 Downs From Last Night's WWE Backstage (Feb 25)

By Michael Hamflett / February 26, 2020

1. Making History

In a toast to Black History Month, Booker T and Mark Henry spoke about breaking through in wrestling in spite of the prejudicial obstacles they'd faced along away.

Henry and Booker talked about their influences and inspirational figures during divergent careers, as well as their hopes for the future based on the level of diversity on WWE's Performance Center system.

Taking some deserved credit for giving younger black wrestlers a view of what they could be by smashing barriers themselves, the former World Champions spoke frankly on how the hard work still came with additional challenges, but ones they felt might not be so seemingly impossible for the next generation breaking through.