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14. People Like You - Triple H & Booker T - 3/3/03

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Heading into WrestleMania XIX, Booker T was on fire. Booker had earned the right to face the World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania by winning a 20-man battle royal, eliminating none other than The Rock at the end to do so. The crowds were enraptured by him, and the story of a passionate performer who had scratched and clawed his way to get to where he found himself was one everyone could get behind.

Unfortunately, the story went in a slightly different direction with champion Triple H's promo on the March 3rd edition of RAW in 2003. In what has gone down in WrestleCrap infamy, Triple H proceeded to give an offensive promo that not only flirted with racism, but full-on took it out for dinner and got down on one knee before dessert.

Throughout, Hunter refers to Booker T in such terms as 'people like you', deriding him as an entertainer as opposed to a wrestler and asking Book to dance for him. Sure, you could make an argument that Trips was referring to Booker's criminal past and was merely portraying a heel character, but the racism was pretty clear for all to see.

Just to ram it all home, Triple H won the WrestleMania match.


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