Booker T has come to the defence of Roxanne Perez following current feedback made by a fellow WWE Corridor of Famer.
The NXT Ladies’s Champion has remained because the champion ever since Stand & Ship 2024 with a victory over Lyra Valkyria. With 6 profitable title defences, together with one in opposition to TNA Knockouts Champion Jordynne Grace, Perez has turn out to be of the highest stars on the model and her primary roster call-up is an inevitability at this level. Perez was additionally educated by Booker T and is likely one of the most profitable graduates from Actuality of Wrestling.
Whereas many hope that Perez’s primary roster call-up will probably be taking place sooner relatively than later, Bully Ray beforehand acknowledged on Busted Open Radio that with no clear plan and artistic path Perez’s call-up might be “disastrous”:
“So far as Roxanne Perez shifting on [to the main roster], I don’t know … Until there’s a definitive plan, it may be disastrous. Typically you solely get that one shot to make that first impression on the primary roster … Do I feel she’s prepared? I don’t suppose it’s going to harm her to hang around in ‘NXT’ for a bit of bit longer. I might relatively see her sit there, proceed to get snug within the ring, to enhance in her psychology, her promos, her character.
“After which, when any individual in artistic goes, ‘We’ve one thing actual and definitive for Roxanne, the place we wish to deliver her up. And on night time one, we wish to debut her with such a memorable second, and right here’s her story for the subsequent three months,’ that will make me extra assured about bringing her up.”
Booker T Responds
Responding to Ray’s feedback on his Corridor of Fame podcast, Booker T acknowledged that whereas he likes Bully Ray he doesn’t agree along with his feedback about Perez, including that he’s not seeing anybody from his personal faculty making an impression within the wrestling world:
“I like Bubba Ray, however he don’t know what the hell he’s speaking about. Roxanne Perez is certainly among the best within the WWE proper now; she is simply that good, and he or she got here by way of my wrestling faculty. I don’t see none of Bubba Ray’s college students on the market doing nothing, I’m simply saying.”
Additionally on his podcast, Booker T known as for one NXT star to obtain new music.
H/t to Wrestling Inc.
