Booker T Accepts Ryback's Fight Challenge

The recent war of words between Booker T and Ryback may yet turn physical.

The beef started when Booker made the comment that Ryback talks like someone who is more of a veteran of the wrestling business than he actually is. The WWE Hall of Famer also criticised 'The Big Guy' for taking frequent shots at WWE in recent years and questioned why he hasn't really worked anywhere else since his 2016 departure.

The two then engaged in a back-and-forth on Twitter, which ended with Ryback challenging the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion to a fight.

Addressing the situation and accepting Ryback's offer on a recent edition of his The Hall of Fame podcast, Booker said:

"Ryback put a challenge out to me for a fight. He said a Bellator fight. Look, Bellator don't want no parts of a fight between Booker T (and Ryback). Reality of Wrestling might put something on like that, but no real big organisation is going to do anything like that, but as far as the challenge goes, I accept Ryback's challenge to a fight. Now, this is what I need Ryback to do. Just go out on his platform and say anytime he sees Booker T in public, it's on, the green light between both of them and nobody's gonna get sued. If we just happen to run into each other and something happened to happen, it just happened".

Booker added that he is not the type to seek confrontation, but will defend himself against people who come at him:

"I want to get it out there. You know what the thing is, I don't even know why he called me out. I did say I wouldn't shake his hand because of some words that he said. I think I was valid for that. Be that as it may, what his excuse was, the reasons, he said, I did say when he posted the thing that he was going to AEW, come on man, quit playing.

"It's one of those types, but that's all it was. It was just sarcasm. It was nothing, no more than that. But to get called out to a fight and to be called the B word and the P word, that's something you don't call a brother. You don't do that. You never hear me curse and talk down, derogatory towards people. That's just not me, man. When someone says that about me, it is on when I say it's on. It's as simple as that. The thing is, I'm an easy man to find. I'm at all the cards. I'm at all the big shows, so, show up."

The 58-year-old also joked that WWE would add 15 years to his current deal if he beat up the former Intercontinental Champion.

H/T WrestlingNews.co

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