10 Hysterical Times Wrestlers FORCED Each Other To Break Character
9. Booker T Makes The WWE New World Order Good (For 15 Seconds)
WWE’s approach to the New World Order act was dismal.
When Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash re-debuted in the WWF, at No Way Out 2002, they did an overlong disingenuous heel bit in which they promised to play nice. They didn’t, but their idea of breaking the rules was not remotely dissimilar to every other Attitude Era stunt. By ‘02, the crazed, silly vehicular manslaughter angle was passé. Mr. McMahon brought them in, in storylines, because he knew they were toxic and he’d rather kill the WWF than hand it over to Ric Flair. This early, wasted premise was probably too inspired; Scott Hall was gone by May as a result of his vile conduct on the notorious ‘Plane Ride From Hell’.
After WWE succumbed to the immortal nostalgia of Hulk Hogan, the promotion did patten the nWo in the vein of WCW. Not the good version, however; the version that added new members seemingly at random to little impression on the audience. The nWo was less a “lethal dose of poison” and more “attempt 154 to get something, anything, out of the Big Show”.
Still, there’s always that time Booker T sang ‘Sexy Boy’ in a backstage segment, changing the lyrics to which was always a cheat code for a pop.
Booker’s hilariously nonsensical and incredibly enthusiastic rendition was amazing. “I’m just a Booker T”, he sang, as if there were several (in his defence, there were at least two).
Kevin Nash and X-Pac lost it, but there’s every chance they were smiling in disbelief that they were still getting paid handsomely to do any old nWo rubbish six years later.