9 Funniest Times Wrestlers CORPSED On Live TV
6. Laughing Through The Pain
Batista and Booker T's fractious time together at the top of SmackDown is remembered more for a real life fight and pay-per-view matches that weren't half as exciting as that scuffle sounded.
To recap; 'The Animal' had moved to SmackDown in the 2005 Draft, and hadn't exactly gotten off to the best start with the locker room after publicly noting that it was the B-Show compared to the John Cena-fronted A-show, then allegedly carrying himself with more arrogance than many of the veterans on the blue brand would have liked. Chief amongst them was Booker, who didn't hold back when the two got into it at SummerSlam 2006 commercial shoot.
Different witnesses report different outcomes to the fight, such is wrestling, but both came away with physical bruises and cuts, and the story was big enough that the company felt it necessary to bring them together on TV for a rivalry over King Booker's World Heavyweight Championship. The bouts were turgid, but they did at least seemingly help the wrestlers find the trust and bond needed to work together, and never was this as evident as a during a promo segment that brought them face-to-giggling-face.
Booker was so outlandish in the role that it was if he was going out of his way to pop his colleagues, even if those colleagues had previously thrown punches his way. Big Dave barely holds it together as he gets covered in a typically-well-enunciated "BOOKAH", but the warmth radiating from the moment perhaps speaks to how both continued to have long and varied careers in and out of the industry in the decades that followed.